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We have been carrying out public tenders through PROEBIZ since 2006, so are in a good position to look back on our experience. Having worked closely together with the PROEBIZ team, I personally appreciate that their products are continually developing, that they are willing to meet the demands of our clients, and that they are always open to discussion.

One of the main reasons we decided to use PROEBIZ was because, unlike other solutions on the market, it has great flexibility in its settings and can be tailored to one’s needs, along with an extensive portfolio of additional assistance services, such as local support, both technical and professional. Support for particular orders in the national languages of several countries in Europe is a huge benefit for us, because we carry out the procurement of raw materials, supplies and services for all AGC Group plants in the Czech Republic, Poland and the Slovak Republic. After a few years, when the system had in our view proved to be a comprehensive procurement tool, PROEBIZ began to be used by other members of the AGC Group in Western Europe. Gradually we began to successfully use other types of eAuctions, especially the NIPPON and Enquiries modules, which proved to be especially effective as a solution for the procurement of lower value requirements.

In the time we have been using PROEBIZ, we have come to see some clear advantages. Among them are not only savings, which over the long-term are 15-20 % of investment costs, but also the transparency of the whole process and less paperwork. Owing to this transparency, people involved in public procurement are protected from the pressure of suppliers and contractors.

TEDOM has been using PROEBIZ since July 2010, and we’ve been totally satisfied. Our cooperation with their whole team should be held up as a model case study of a real supplier-client partnership. All tenders have always been carried out professionally, and this is not only down to the brilliant system settings which are tailored to needs, but also to the customer-oriented approach of the whole PROEBIZ team. We get a feeling of mutual benefit from our relationship, while the effectiveness of using the PROEBIZ system is proven by its financial results.