Educated Buy is changing the way schools are able to procure goods and services. Our unique approach to delivering market driven best prices for a wide range of goods and services is benefiting both schools and suppliers alike.
The system is easy to use, offering an intuitive interface for School's creating their opportunities and for suppliers submitting their offer in response.
Educated Buy will provide you with the best price for the service of goods you are seeking to procure. The cool thing about the platform is that you don't have to take it!
There may be valid reasons for choosing a more expensive offer, all you have to do is record the reason.
You list your request, the team at Educated Buy do the rest, securing responses from as many suppliers as possible. Each presents their best price to you, and you simply choose the one you wish to use.
Educated Buy is a Cloud Based application. It is available anytime anywhere there is an internet connection.
The system allows you to create and respond to procurement listings on a wide range of devices (including your mobile phone).
The Educated Buy system will notify you when a new offer is presented or, if you are a supplier, when a new opportunity that matches your capability is published.
As a school looking for a supplier to deliver the goods or services you require, the Educated Buy system provides you with all of the control.
You list the exact product details you want to purchase or describe the services you are wanting. Companies that have registered interest in opportunities aligned with your requirement are then notified. They are able to review the specification, and if they want to, they can submit their price.
The model ensures you only receive relevant responses and encourages suppliers who are confident in their ability to deliver to present their best offer.
View previous reviews, read a company's submission, assess the offers against one another, and then make a decision on who to select. You are not obligated to take the lowest price, there may be valid reasons not to do this.
To help understand the purchasing decision making process when reporting to stakeholders the purchaser will be prompted to enter a reason for the supplier selection they have made.
Once your business is registered on the Educated Buy platform, quote requests for goods and services are sent to you.
You highlight the categories and geographic locations of opportunities you wish to participate in, the system does the rest.
As a new listing is added, the Educated Buy notification engine works its magic and will send you a notification alert where there is a match.
The Educated Buy system is all about continual improvement and this not only applies to us. Functionality offered by the system allows suppliers to receive feedback too.
Unlike most tenders or price quote requests that a business responds to where there is little or no feedback, Educated Buy will report how you stacked up against competitors, allowing you the opportunity to refine your submission for the next matching opportunity.
Educated Buy provides the ability to view reports of activity in real-time so that schools can see their recent activity and export reports as PDF or csv files to be shared with interested stakeholders.
Likewise, businesses are able to generate reports that detail their most recent submissions and their comparative performance in each opportunity they have been involved in.
