Jefferson County, New York, Aims for Paperless Processes with PlanetBids

Overview

For Mike Bagley, Purchasing Director at Jefferson County, New York, time is everything.

With a 35-hour work week and a small staff, there’s not a lot of extra time to waste shuffling through documents and tracking down information. But prior to adopting PlanetBids, that was the County’s reality: mounds of paperwork and after-hours job stress.

PlanetBids digital procurement system brought order to the chaos and helped eliminate the stacks of paper, making the County’s procurement operations more efficient, transparent, and straightforward.

In fact, the County was swiftly moving in the direction to implement fully paperless processes, including the RFP and bid acceptance process, just a few short months after going live in the PlanetBids system.

But the real catalyst for the change was Bagley’s insistence on a work-life balance for his staff.

“I tell my team all the time that when they go home, they shouldn’t be taking all the stress of work with them. You shouldn’t have to be overwhelmed Monday through Friday with how much work you have and then go home and be stressed because all you see in your mind are all these stacks of paper across your desk that you haven’t gotten to or buried in emails you can’t get to.”