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D -- RESELLING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMMODITIES USING VOLUME PURCHASING (AGGREGATION) AND REVERSE AUCTIONING POC Ms. Carolyn Day Hecox, Contracting Officer, (703) 795-1837 or Mr. Manny DeVera, (703) 447-0565 WEB: Click here for the official buyers.gov web site., http://buyers.gov. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contracting officer via, carolyn.hecox@gsa.gov. The Federal Technology Service (FTS), Office of Information Technology Integration (ITI) has established an electronic web-enabled auction exchange community, called buyers.gov, which will include three new approaches to selling commodities to federal customers: (1) Private Buyer Auctions; (2) Volume Purchasing (called eFAST), which includes Supplier to Buyer Aggregation; and (3) Quick Quotes. This multi-faceted approach will use commercially available automated tools to streamline and conduct a new form of negotiation strategy for the procurement of information technology commodities. This exchange or portal is called "buyers.gov" and has the officially registered web address: http://buyers.gov. ITI is issuing this announcement to invite all industry resellers to an information sharing session beginning at 10:00AM EDT on Tuesday, May 30th at the GSA Auditorium located at 18th and F Street, Washington, DC. If you are interested in offering products or services as a reseller on "buyers.gov" please attend. Enabler's will be on hand to demonstrate their systems. AUCTIONS ARE TO BEGIN JUNE 2000. The purpose of the meeting will be to share information with IT resellers of commodities (computers, laptops, printers, monitors, etc.)regarding volume purchasing (eFAST) and reverse auctioning at "buyers.gov". Using the auctioning and volume purchasing concept, the orders should be large, and can come from single customers or can be aggregated orders from many federal buyers. Parameters and reseller requirements will be shared and identified for the implementation of Buyers.gov. Buyers.gov will provide Federal Technology customers and government agencies with an easy-to-use tool to conduct auctions and to aggregate similar products from multiple customers throughout government, compare prices; make a decision as to which FTS vendor partner solution represents the best price and/or value; and place an order online with selected reseller(s). If you are an industry reseller interested in selling commodities through volume purchasing on "buyers.gov" and want to participate, PLEASE COME ON DOWN TO THE GSA AUDITORIUM. Enablers will be in attendance to present their auctioning software tools and to participate in a question and answer forum. Any questions, call Ms. Carolyn Day Hecox at (703) 795-1837 or Mr. Manny DeVera at (703) 447-0565. WE WANT TO SEE YOU THERE. This is not a formal solicitation but an announcement to recruit interested resellers. The Government cannot reimburse companies for costs incurred in responding to this announcement or attendance at the conference. Posted 05/25/00 (W-SN458828). (0146)

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