Kent also summarized OSD Statewide Service Agreements. Many vendors have agreements that offer government entities in he state deep discounts, and governments can select from the list of vendors for services - do not have have to put everything out to bid. John Kolis suggested that rather than advising the town completely buy in to the EMall, a small number of departments use the service to demonstrate the savings in time and money. John Bowe will contact Mel Kleckner and Will Brownsberger about what would be most desireable and when a good time would be. Other providers came up.
Advantage here is a much larger list of suppliers.
Disadvantage is its up-front costs to join. The group felt that the town would probably not be interested if there were significant up-front initiation costs. The general feeling of the group was that it would be hard to justify to the cost to set any of these up. All require some amount of up-front costs and we are unsure of the savings. We hope to have ezgov present to anyone intererested in Town Hall on Monday, September 14.