Need for Benchmarking the GPO Evident from Interquest Forum Keynote

The $1.5-2 million pool in the benchmarking package would hopefully be economic incentive enough for INWK to welcome the benchmarking trial. The number of jobs across 20 or more print product specialty catagories would provide statistically valid sampling for the project.

Each individual GPO “jacket” could be submitted to both the GPO network of vendors and the INWK network, with the job being awarded to the lowest qualified vendor. The first benchmarking measure would be which system delivers the lowest price.