The MLS Bid Optimization Service can electronically distribute bid information to your transportation providers, baseline costs, qualify carriers, receive and process bids, optimize results, measure savings, award the contract and create routing guides. Our procurement process has been proven effective in numerous implementations at leading companies from a variety of industries. With Bid Optimization you can leverage our extensive experience to maximize the effectiveness of your bid and minimize the administrative burden of strategic procurement.

By utilizing Metropolitan's Bid Optimization Services, you will:

	Lower transportation costs by enabling transportation providers to offer more competitive bids, using online, information-sharing capabilities
	Improve service reliability by allowing transportation providers to respond with detailed information that goes beyond pricing to ensure more reliable capacity, better compliance and a subsequent drop in carrier refusal rates
	Automatically generate an electronic request for proposal and organize bid data, significantly reducing the amount of time spent processing bids by eliminating the need to merge and sort information
	Improve decision-making through scenario management and optimization of the financial impact of proposed changes to an existing transportation policy

Bid Management Services enable shippers to realize leveraged savings in a shorter amount of time. When used in conjunction with the LCC, our comprehensive transportation management solution, shippers are provided with an optimal transportation strategy and unparalleled control of shipment execution to ensure routing compliance and deliver the savings on each and every shipment.