Providing a bid site over electronic communication networks where businesses can put their purchasing needs for business products and services out for bid, receive quotes from qualified vendors, and complete sales transactions

Teaching apparatus and instruments; magnetic data carriers, recording discs; data processing equipment and computers; magnetic encoded cards; computer hardware, software and peripherals, apparatus and instruments for data acquisition and data communications; video transmission line apparatus and television receivers; data processing apparatus; smart cards; apparatus for games adapted for use with television receivers; identity cards, integrated circuit cards; intercommunication apparatus; interfaces for computers; laptop computers; modems, notebook computers; palmtop computers; data processing equipment and readers; receivers (audio and video); receivers (telephone); satellites for scientific purposes; video telephones; computer programs for connecting to remote computers and computer networks; computer programs for searching the contents of remote programs for transmitting and receiving data and files to and from remote computers and computer networks; computer programs for assisting users in navigating through local and global computer networks; computer software used in security and financial applications in the field of computer operating systems and computer networks