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RFP Cos. add integration for '07 bids.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 03-APR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
RFP Express, Lodging Logistics and Uversa International are modifying their hotel procurement process tools to provide a more automated, integrated solution for corporate travel buyers and hoteliers in time for the 2007 bid season. Designed to allow buyers to concentrate on negotiations rather than the mechanical minutiae accompanying the corporate hotel procurement process, the new enhancements strive to provide end-to-end automated support.

Additionally, the National Business Travel Association hotel committee recently devised two new modules in its request-for-proposals template for 2007. The new template, which the third-party RFP vendors have said they will follow, allows buyers to integrate meetings specifications into the transient RFP process.

The first module is in two parts. One focuses on the hotels' meeting facilities, including the total number of meeting rooms available, and the second focuses on client rate information and client amenity and room information. Travel managers can include questions premised on these...

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