Hawaii Awards & Notices Data System (HANDS) Wins Government Standard of Excellence Award
11 September 2018 - 4:59PM
Business Wire
The Hawaii Awards & Notices Data System (HANDS) has been
nationally recognized as a winner by the Web Marketing Association
with a Government Standard of Excellence award. The HANDS system
allows users to search for bidding opportunities, contract awards,
and Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) requests throughout multiple
state and county procurement platforms in a single location.
The judges recognized our efforts by stating: "HANDS succeeds in
taking away the pain of posting and finding bidding opportunities,
contract awards, and CPO [requests].” The judges also stated the
website’s Application Programming Interface and robust search
technology simplifies the procurement process for users.
Historically, over 10,000 users from a variety of businesses
seek to do business with the State of Hawaii. But this process was
made even more difficult due to the fact that there are multiple
websites where the State can post opportunities. In the past, this
put a significant burden on businesses due to the amount of time it
took to monitor all of these sites and most often they would choose
to monitor only one or two - meaning potential missed
opportunities. To help combat this, the State of Hawaii would post
opportunities on multiple platforms in order to reach more
businesses. This process was troublesome for both the State and
business owners.
When HANDS was released, it eliminated the pain of posting and
finding opportunities. Through the use of an Application
Programming Interface (API) HANDS is able to pull in opportunities
from all of these multiple websites and display results in a single
search. The State no longer needs to post in multiple locations -
instead the API allows them to post an opportunity once which then
automatically displays in HANDS as well.
HANDS utilizes SOLR, a robust search technology that presents
the search in a recognizable way. The user can simply type in a
keyword and they will immediately see results matching their
entry.
The Hawaii State Procurement Office created HANDS in partnership
with Hawaii Information Consortium, the official Internet portal
manager of eHawaii.gov.
About the Hawaii State Procurement Office
The goal of the Hawaii State Procurement Office is to promote
economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and impartiality in procurement
for State and county governments; and efficiency, effectiveness and
stewardship in inventory management and surplus property management
in an open, fair and transparent process.
About eHawaii.gov
This service was launched as part of the eHawaii State Portal
Program. Pursuant to chapter 27G, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the
Portal Program is overseen by the Access Hawaii Committee, which
collaborates with provider Hawaii Information Consortium (HIC)
along with state and county agencies to continually identify new
online services to be added to the portal. For more information,
visit portal.ehawaii.gov.
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