WeBid is a prototype web-based framework developed for supporting and facilitating early supplier involvement in new product development on the Internet. It provides a suite of rigorous and yet pragmatic constructs for establishing and managing the customer-supplier relationships in new product development process. This paper reports on some insights and experience gained from a real-life case study using WeBid system and approach in the tendering process of developing a Video Conferencing System (VCS).

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