How eProcurement Can Save Our Planet

April is the month to celebrate the planet and the environment. The world is searching for ways to reduce the carbon footprint that we humans leave as we lead our lives. The carbon footprint is a measure of how much electricity, gas and waste we generate, and the procurement industry is a big offender! 

Driving to an agency that only accepts paper bids causes gas consumption.

By law, bids are required to be stored. The rooms where the boxes of bids are stored need to be kept cool, resulting in power consumption.

The amount of paper that is used by the Procurement industry is mind-boggling in the depletion of natural resources.

An internal study at PlanetBids found that moving government procurement processes onto their eProcurement system over the past two decades collectively helped save over 250,000 trees from being cut down.

eProcurement is not a business, it’s a mission to convert an entire paper-based industry into a paperless one, automated and conducted entirely on computers. 

PlanetBids offers an entirely automated procurement system that covers:

• Vendor Management
• Bid Management
• Contract Management
• Insurance Certificate Management
• Business Certification / Prequalification Management 
• Evaluation Management
• Emergency Operations
• Bid Spec Library

Contact us at PlanetBids to learn more about how to completely eliminate paper from the procurement process, whether you're on the agency side or a vendor.