The Urbanized Bid Process Information System

Bid process translates the techno-economic expertise, which partners build in a cooperative way. It is a key business process which influences the company's survival and strategic orientations. Therefore, the Bid Process Information System (BPIS) that supports this process must be characterized by integrity, flexibility and interoperability. Nevertheless, the urbanization approach, on which we rely to implement this BPIS, has to deal with “three fit” problems. To overcome these deficiencies, we propose our methodology to organize the BPIS following four dimensions: operational, organizational, decision-making, and cooperative dimensions. In this paper we are particularly interested at reduce the gap between business and technical infrastructures of the BPIS. Thus, we propose solutions to deal with “vertical fit” problems and to define the characteristics of the operational dimension. In this context, we illustrate that the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) implements the operational dimension of the BPIS. However, there is no specific module to the exploitation of the bid process. Thus, we propose to extend “OpenERP 7.0” by a new module that treats the techno-economic bid solutions. We also describe the characteristics of the organizational dimension of the BPIS.