The Business Travel RFP Service is an interactive service designed to assist corporate travel coordinators. Using Business Travel RFP Service, a travel coordinator who periodically compiles corporate hotel directory, a conference organizer or a meeting planner can submit Requests For Proposals to hotels or hotel chains anywhere in the world (as with a paper submission, there is no guarantee that the participating hotels would accept a particular RFP or reply to it). The request produced by using our service is fully compliant with the Year 2000 version of the Standard Hotel RFP form developed by the National Business Travel Association.

To submit an RFP, the user needs only to fill out one simple form that can be customized by the travel coordinator to include hundreds of factors. These factors include location, size and age of hotel, availability, rates, proximity to airports and restaurants, hotel facilities and services, guest room amenities, complimentary hotel features, fire and security safety, oversold policies and methods of reservations.

The form will be forwarded to as many hotel chains as is selected by the user from the list provided. The Business Travel RFP Service site lists more than a hundred of the leading hotel chains from around the globe along with links to their Web sites. If the user cannot find a specific hotel or hotel chain on our list, he or she can submit the name and location of the facility and we will attempt to locate it. If hotel does not have access to email, the request can be delivered by fax or courier.

The hotels will be able to reply to the RFP by filling out an electronic response form on our site, without purchasing any special software or hardware. Any hotel with an online connection to the Internet can use our technology.

The basic service is currently free for the business travel coordinators and planners. Hotels that register with the service will pay transactional fees on receipt of each RFP or for the use of the Reply Form.

Using the Business Travel RFP Service site is quite simple and its users do not require any special technical training or software installation on the client machine. The site is constantly upgraded based on client feedback. It will include in the future useful databases, functions and features.

This user-friendliness, portability and dynamism are all characteristics of DeLiberation Extranet, a set of highly interactive, easy to use, fast and low-cost online modules developed by ARRAY Development. DeLiberation Extranet modules provide vital support for electronic commerce and transactional delivery of administrative services and include powerful tools for exception management, online help, dispute resolution, peer interaction, online conferencing, electronic collaboration and interactive publishing.

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• Business Travel RFP open-standard programmable technology platform supports transactional delivery of administration services and periodic reporting within and outside the organization.

• Our overriding objective is to ensure fast development cycle, good cost-benefit ratios, and sufficient degrees of security and scalability, by minimizing potential for costly maintenance, training and support.

• Written in XML, Perl, SQL, and integrated with email, workflow agents and advanced AI expert-system technologies, our system consists of several hundred thousand lines of code. The server can reside on any inexpensive, readily available, mature and stable hardware that could support Windows 2000 and MS IIS platform. If required, Perl provides easy portability to the Unix environment, as it was originally developed for it.

• We have selected xHTML, a subset of XML, as a well-structured document development application standard. xHTML is currently the only XML schema that can be used as a development rather than experimental platform and can be displayed by the newest browsers on the market. As the XML standard matures, we plan to use other schemas that will be universally supported, i.e., do not require installation of proprietary applications on the user desktop.

• In a typical corporate environment our technology platform is much faster and inherently more secure than would be applet-based implementations. It can also work with legacy non-graphic workstations still used in some government organizations and private corporations. Applets have a well-documented tendency to freeze older workstations.

• Databases are in ODBC-compatible format and require approximately 10 Mbytes of disk space initially, with an increase of about 5 Kbytes per additional user, and additional 2 Kbytes per transaction.

• Business Travel RFP intranet/Extranet-based server supports sophisticated interactive forms, multi-field intelligent inputs, in-context instructions and other transactions, feedback and exception-management tools compelled by its demanding functionality.

• Corporate users can access the service through all commonly used Web browsers and email client software.

• It is hardly a secret that PC workstations used in many government organizations and private corporations are not always of the latest variety or have inadequate internal memory. Our versatile, robust and easy to maintain operating environment has been developed to support rapid implementation across organizations where legacy applications and older networking solutions are still widely used.

• Even though an Internet-based technology platform always requires constant improvements and updates, our main technology strategy is to upgrade as we go and implement new competitive features with advances in Internet and evolvement in customer preferences.

• Many government organizations and private corporations currently mandate the use of our technology platform as the only one that they are willing to support. The product has been developed to be easily scaled up by porting it to the mainstream Web hosting services, as there is nothing in the technology platform or architecture that requires running a proprietary platform.

• Security requirements for the browser are entirely dependent on organizational policies. The platform is fully compatible with any security level implemented in the given organization. If the system resides on open Internet, transactional security can be enhanced by the use of Secure Socket Layer, Version 3 (SLL3) and 128 bits encryption keys, or even more powerful PKI solutions. Browsers that default to the 40 bits International standard will be able to service clients outside the US and Canada.

• Many organizations ban the use of applets on local browsers or strip them from the Web pages using a firewall or a proxy server. Our technology platform does not overburden client organizations with the need to change their security policies.

The above are minimum recommended configurations. Effective operation might be affected by local hardware, software and networking components. Discuss details with your corporate technical support.

Business Travel RFP guarantees high-quality secure services to our clients worldwide.

Business Travel RFP offers discount programs based on the exchange volume that will add value to your Travel RFP program and save your corporation money. Please send us an email and our representatives will identify a program that will best fit your needs.

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• Please suggest some new services and suppliers that you feel should be added to the Business Travel RFP Web Site.

• Every suggestion accepted for implementation on Business Travel RFP site entitles you to participate in a draw of valuable gifts donated by Financial Business eXchange, Inc., the University Bank Group of Companies and other sponsors.