Constuct Connect and Vendorlink

[Brian Dale]

Good morning Brevard County Purchasers.

For those of you who are still using Vendorlink, I have a little Christmas gift for you.  Vendorlink has agreed to provide Construct Connect with an account to access bidding documents whereas before they couldn't have an account since they are an aggregator and reseller of data.  If you are like me and tired of fielding constant records requests from this company, you should be very happy.  Obviously, we can't control what comes through as a records request, but we can now remind Construct Connect that they can have access to the system to get their own records. 

While we can't legally 'refuse' a records request, providing them this portal access allows us to fulfill requests much faster. In many cases, directing a requester to a specific URL where the record is already hosted satisfies our 'good faith' obligation under Chapter 119 without us having to manually pull and email files. 

I wish you all a happy and healthy holiday season.

Brian Dale, CPPO Procurement and Budget Manager
	Phone: (321) 433-8833 E-Mail: bd...@cocoafl.gov Address: 65 Stone Street • Cocoa, FL 32922 Website: www.CocoaFL.gov

 

 

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