BuilderSupplyNet.com, has formed a new strategic partnership with UniStar, LLC, a leader in B2B demand aggregation over the Internet. The new Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) feature termed “OPTI-BUY” on the BuilderSupplyNet.com website, provides BuilderSupplyNet.com subscribers with group buying power by providing single access to low-cost transactions for buyers and sellers. The initial product categories offered include office supplies, equipment and furniture. With additional alliances, a wide range of building supplies, materials and services will also be available for purchase with the leveraged buying power of OPTI-BUY. BuilderSupplyNet.com is a division of INTERNOS Corporation.
The online trading community is designed to help local firms—including general contractors, builders, subcontractors, suppliers and service providers—to better manage their business processes and projects, making them more productive and profitable.
Among other features, BuilderSupplyNet.com enables subscribers to search for vendors by area of specialty, CSI division number and minority business status; access vendor catalogs; submit online purchase orders; e-mail requests for bids, sealed bids, promotional messages and work orders to individual or multiple recipients; send documents and attached files in original format; transmit blueprints without special software; access archived e-mails; and verify transmission and receipt of information.
Details at BuilderSupplyNet.com.
