State Term Contract &State Purchasing Agreement

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Innovative Ideas towards Improving Your Buying Experience

DMS State PurchasingIT Team

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State Term Contracts

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Navigation Features

This Search Box is limited to State Term

Contracts and Purchasing Agreements

This Search Box covers the entire DMS

website.

The Notify Me button will allow you to receive email

notices of alterations to this and any connected web

pages.

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Sorting the Contract Listing

Clicking on column headings will sort the

listing in either Ascending or

Descending order.

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Category Filter

If you click on a specific Contract Category,

(example: Automotive & Marine) the list will filter

to show only the matching Contracts for

that category.

To remove the Category filter on the Contracts and Agreements table,

click “Return to Full List”.

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Administrator Selection

Clicking on the Administrator’s name will

pull up a specific page relating to them.

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Administrator Page

Also listed here are any Contracts and Agreements this particular Purchasing

member handles.

Detailed information including contact phone numbers and

email addresses.

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Contract Main Page

On the main Contract page, basic information is displayed for quick and easy reference.

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Performance Survey

To rate the performance of this contract, specific vendors,

make suggestions or to see the results of other survey

respondents, use these links here.

Currently SPA Agreements do not have Survey links, but this

will be provided at a later date.

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Contract Arrangement

These links here lead to the specific document

components of the Contract.

These pages follow two basic structures and can house

any of the following:

•HTML•Adobe .PDFs•Word Documents•Links to Outside Websites

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Page Structure: Links

In this format, information is stacked in a list of links that

will take you either to another portion of the STC/SPA system

or to an outside website.

*SPECIAL NOTE:Information stored on outside

websites (such as Vendor catalogs) cannot be integrated

into the search parameters.

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Page Structure: Built In

In this format, information is built directly into the DMS

website.

All information placed on these pages can be found

through the STC/SPA search engine.

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Page of Note: Revisions Page

Previously, this page was a long HTML document utilizing bookmark

navigation. Users had to scroll through each

Revision Memo to see what it was about.

In this new form, brief descriptions can be added

to the Revision links to help give a quick overview of each document and save

users from needless browsing.

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Retracing Your Steps

In order to make navigating through some of the more complex Contracts

easier, a “Breadcrumb” trail and a Navigation tree are provided to allow you to click directly onto your desired destination.

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STC/SPA for the Future

Responding to suggestions that Purchasing Agreements were not widely used because of

their lack of visibility, it is planned that the STC and SPA lists will be combined on a single page

for ease of browsing.

An example of how the listing might look is below.

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State Purchasing Agreements

The layout of the SPA portion of the website is

based on the same structure as the STC

pages.

Since there may be multiple SPAs for a

particular commodity – references to similar

products can be added here.

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Final Notes• Expired Contracts and SPA agreements

will be placed in an Archive section that will still be accessible by the public.

• Conditional pages will be available for Contracts that require special language, forms, or documents. (RFQs, Optional Usage, Etc.)

• Frequently Asked Question pages will be added at various points to provide users a quick reference guide to the STC/SPA website and specific Contract pages as needed.

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Thank You!

We hope that this new

State Term Contract and

State Purchasing AgreementWebsite

will provide our users with a more pleasant

and accommodating experience.