Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Finance and Management, on behalf of the City’s Purchasing Office, to enter into a contract with TradeCentric, LLC, who has developed and hosts, operates and supports, an online platform that enables a company to deploy punchout catalog, purchase order exchange, invoice exchange, and other solutions, and use these solutions with its existing e-commerce, procurement, and business applications, handling the translations and routing between buyer procurement and supplier e-commerce sites. This software is necessary to establish a connection between Microsoft’s D365 ERP software and the Coupa Business Spend Management Platform, to which the Purchasing Office intends to subscribe via entering into a contract with Coupa Software Inc. via separate legislation (Ord. No. 1514-2025). This contract and the contract with Coupa Software Inc. provide the software necessary to run the City of Columbus catalog system for all Universal Term Contracts (UTCs). The current catalog system is used citywide to order goods and services from the City’s UTCs.
A formal request for proposals (RFP) solicitation was published via RFQ026748 for the purchase of Procurment Catalog Software. Three proposals were received, which were opened on March 14, 2024. The proposals were evaluated by a five-member evaluation committee, based upon various criteria including competence, quality and feasibility, ability, past performance, and price, which evaluation resulted in a recommendation to the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to award a contract for such services to Coupa Sofware Inc. and TradeCentric, LLC (as Coupa Software Inc.’s proposed provider for the required connection between the Coupa Business Spend Management Platform and Microsoft D365). The Director approved the award to Coupa Software Inc. and TradeCentric, LLC.
The term of the proposed contract with TradeCentric, LLC is one (1) year, ...
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