BIDDING PROCESS ASSISTANT

摘要

A bidding process (30) is described. The bidding process (30) includes a first phase (44) where a listing of values offered by a vendor (59a, 59b) or a plurality of vendors is based upon algorithms that vendor marketing initiatives. The bidding process (30) includes a second phase (100) where the listing of values can change based on process that polls the customer for additional information based algorithm (84) (fig. 5) and a third phase (120) to enable vendors to intervene to override (98) (fig. 5A) the prices that are determined by the profile based algorithms (84) and the electronic arbitration algorithm (100).