Confidential price information
28 August 2012
Q: When I arrange a contract that leads to the creation of an e-catalogue, the negotiated unit price is visible to the requisitioner via our cataloguing platform, which explains that pricing information should remain confidential. For contracts where the
A: David Pomfret, e-procurement director of PMMS Consulting Group, writes: Your question raises two issues. First, e-catalogues are certainly most beneficial when there is a high amount of transactional activity. However, where it is lower but some form of electronic ordering is desirable, the economics for maintaining e-catalogues can...