BIZINT stands for Business Intelligence, and is a mobile- and web-based application used by Operational Planners, Senior Contracting Officials, and Contingency Contracting Officers to “see” commodities and services available in the commercial marketplace in countries and regions where we operate now, and where we may operate in the future.
BIZINT was developed and optimized to plan for and execute Joint Force commercial support requirements.
Market Intelligence
Interacting with BIZINT’s map-based interface, users can define a
region and quickly view the capacity of commodities and services
available in the region. If the region selected doesn’t meet the
supply capacity needed, users can “zoom out” to look for
additional capacity. Once the user’s market research is completed,
a list of available commodities and services in the viewable
region can be exported in a CSV file. Users can filter and sort by
class of supply and commodity tags to further refine results. In
about a minute’s worth of time, users can easily understand the
commercial market’s capability to support operations and
exercises.
Vendor Management
BIZINT users can quickly and easily add, edit or delete a vendor. Commodity and service capacity associated with each vendor has been customized to return the most useful quantities and unit of measure information. For example, aircraft hangar space and size available for lease at an airfield is quantified by thousands of cubic feet. This information is visible to any BIZINT user and can be filtered and exported. Vendor-based commodity and service capacity data is collected from multiple sources: existing government vendor databases, vendor outreach efforts, and traditional “boots-on-the-ground” collection practices.
Key Features
BIZINT's core features are supported by a variety of functions that extend the application's capability and provide greater detail about the commodities and services available in the marketplace.
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Offline Access
BIZINT users can download commercial market intelligence to their mobile device to use when in low or no bandwidth areas. Offline data adds and edits will sync when the device re-establishes network connectivity.
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Commodity Images
Images can be added to a commodity or service to provide greater context or specific information not easily displayed in the commodity view.
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Download Market Intelligence
Users can download CSV documents of all vendor and commodity information in a visible area for easy sharing and use during the planning process. CSV downloads contain contact numbers, supply types and potential capacity available.