Aviation Clearinghouse Inc. announces global Bid Response Services.

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 1996--Aviation Clearinghouse, Inc. today announced the industry's first globally available Bid Response Service.

The offering includes the release of I.netRFP, an intelligent "response agent" solution for the management of travel and transportation procurement services via the Internet.

I.netRFP is a first-of-its-kind offering which provides aviation industry purchasing departments the capability of streamlining work flow and improving controls while significantly reducing procurement costs. Industry surveys indicate that procurement processing costs can be reduced by 25% and cycle times reduced by 62% with the implementation of an automated bid service. I.netRFP takes automated bid services a step further by providing secured procurement information quickly and inexpensively to a worldwide vendor audience. I.netRFP transforms an airports paper intensive procurement process into a regulated electronic distribution of procurement documents, thereby increasing the quality and quantity of vendor bid responses while reducing process cycle time.

Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques (SITA), the world's largest end-to-end, managed telecommunications network in more than 220 countries, understands the benefits of leveraging this technology during a recent large bid response. "Due to a very aggressive schedule, we realized that utilizing traditional manual response procedures would jeopardize critical milestones," said John Crawford, Director of Product Management Services - Airport Services - SITA. "I.netRFP was the perfect tool to handle SITA's Common Use Baggage Enterprise System (CUBES). The entire bid process was managed in a secure on-line environment utilizing interactive communication features while successfully managing over 35 vendor responses."

"Our goal is to make Aviation Clearinghouse, Inc. an open and dynamic forum of response services that provides exceptional benefit to the aviation market by offering a seamless interface to the vendor/supplier relationship," said John Steele, Director of Operations at Aviation Clearinghouse, Inc. "Our unique services combine interactive Q&A capabilities, broadcast status notification services, interactive pre-bidders conferencing as well as other electronic response services unparalleled on the Internet today."

Customers can now define their own virtual private site, utilizing the Internet for vendor and business partner communications with unprecedented ease of use while maintaining confidentiality through stringent access control mechanisms.

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CONTACT: Aviation Clearinghouse, Inc.

Pamela Shelpuk, [phone]