M.C. Dean Selects Zycus eSourcing to Accelerate Critical Contract Negotiations

PRINCETON, N.J. January 04, 2011 – Zycus, a world leader in Spend Management Solutions, announced today that M.C. Dean, Inc. has selected its eSourcing Solution. Headquartered in Dulles, Va., M.C. Dean is one of the premier engineering and integration firms specializing in complex electrical, electronic and telecommunications systems. In the past several years, the company has ranked consistently among the Top 10 Electrical Contractors in the U.S., according to EC&M magazine. “We are planning to issue a large number of RFPs to suppliers around the country,” says Rick Van Dyke, V.P of Procurement for M.C. Dean. “The process of distributing, following, collecting, sorting, and analyzing RFP responses is very tedious, so we were looking for a simple and efficient way to issue RFPs, collect, and analyze suppliers’ responses.” With the time for contract renegotiations fast approaching, M.C. Dean needed to get the right eSourcing tool up and running in the shortest possible time frame.

Zycus was there when we needed them and have been very responsive to our queries and requirements, says Van Dyke. “Their Solution has most of the functions we were looking for, including an easy way to compare suppliers’ responses to our RFPs and an ability to add eAuctions. We are quite hopeful the ability to issue, receive, and analyze RFPs electronically will save us significant time and paper.” “Companies automate processes because they need to go faster and be more productive,” observes Anurag Dixit, Vice President of Marketing at Zycus. “They want fully functional solutions that can be deployed quickly. They want to maximize user adoption with minimal training and they want rapid ROI. Our eSourcing Solution and related support services are engineered specifically to satisfy that need for speed.”