AlioSoft offers simple and efficient online tendering services, based on the GNP²Transport procurement platform, helping shippers meet today’s increasing challenges in freight transportation procurement. Our innovative approach represents a substantial improvement over traditional sealed-bid calls for tenders and offers the following features:

• Online: all transactions are handled by computer and through Internet, from bid entry, data transmission and analysis, to posting of results and publication of reports, quickly and accurately.
  
• Combinatorial: as well as bids on individual lanes, our tendering system also accepts bids on combinations of lanes, where the full awarding of lanes (all or nothing) is guaranteed when it is globally more advantageous for the shipper.
  
• Multi-round: online calls for tenders may be held in a single round, or be spread over multiple rounds, thus allowing participants the chance to adjust their bids or bidding strategy.
  
• Secure: all bidding and reporting transactions are held in the strictest confidentiality and are protected in compliance with industry best-practices.

These make all the difference when compared with the manual processing and limited execution rules of traditional calls for tenders. Thus, in conjunction with a good preparation, online calls for tenders allow overall savings in direct and indirect costs, as well as time savings, namely at the pre- and post-tendering stages. Our service is designed to assist shippers in their strategic sourcing projects. We intervene from the outset, when the shipper produces a list of requirements and business rules. The design and configuration of the call for tenders is then implemented, based on the shipper’s requirements and specific needs. From this point onward, a collaborative effort ensues between the shipper and AlioSoft’s experts until closure of the online call for tenders. The resulting deliverable is the best possible set of bids that the marketplace can support, thus helping shippers meet their operational and financial requirements.