MyFloridaMarketPlace Searching for Vendors in VIP

How to Take this Training

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• Interactive sessions throughout the presentation will be in several formats including: information buttons you can click to learn more about a specific topic, true/false and multiple choice questions.

Agenda

• MFMP Overview

• Quick Searches

• Advanced Searches

• Resources

Agenda

• MFMP Overview

• Quick Searches

• Advanced Searches

• Resources

Overview of MFMP

• MyFloridaMarketPlace (MFMP) is the state’s online purchasing system and continues to be a significant tool for buyers and vendors of the State of Florida.

• MFMP provides a source for centralized procurement activities focusing on best practices and maximizing the state’s buying power to support efficient government.

• Further information on the MFMP System is available in the MFMP System Overview Online Training.

Overview of MFMP

MFMP Vendor Information Portal (VIP)

• The Vendor Information Portal is where vendors go to register to do business with the State of Florida.

• Agency customer should use VIP to search for vendors.

• VIP provides both agency customers and vendors 24/7 access.

• Agency customer may access VIP through the public user account.

• MFMP Overview

• Quick Searches

• Advanced Searches

• Resources

Agenda

• Agency customers may have previously used MarketView to find vendors.

• Agencies can search for vendors in MFMP VIP. The login information is: – Username: publicuser

– Password: publicuser

Log into VIP

Quick Search Options:

• Vendor Name

• Last Name

• User Name

• Email Address

• Tax ID Type

• Tax ID #

Quick Searching

Tips for Searching

• Alphanumeric characters may be entered into blank text fields. The blank text fields can be searched using a wildcard (%) in combination with a series of letters. – For example, if somewhere in the name of the vendor there is the

word "flower", the wildcard may be used in the following method: %flower% - for vendors who may have flower anywhere in their name.

• Depending on how the vendor entered their information, it is often better to use less information when searching. – For example, searching for the vendor name "Acme Office Stores, Inc"

will not return any results if the supplier registered as "Acme Company - Office Stores Incorporated". Using just the word Acme is a better entry.

Search Results

Company John Smith 555-555-5555 example@company.com

• The search results will appear under the Vendor Search box.

• Buyers may click each Vendor Name for further, detailed information about each vendor and the email address is hyperlinked to open using your Outlook email account.

Simple Search Quiz

• Quiz questions may be found in the script

Agenda

• MFMP Overview

• Quick Searches

• Advanced Searches

• Resources

When quick searches do not contain enough search filter to find a specific vendor set, buyers many use the ‘Advanced Searching’ option in VIP.

Advanced Searching

Advanced Search

• MFMP recommends that agency customers use at least two search criteria.

– For example, when searching for a vendor who provides a janitorial services for your local agency, please use the applicable UNSPSC commodity code and location county. This will return a list of vendors who offer janitorial service in your county.

• The next slide will give descriptions of each advanced search fields contained in VIP.

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Quiz on Searching in VIP

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Agenda

• MFMP Overview

• Quick Searches

• Advanced Searches

• Resources

• MFMP Website – http://www.dms.myflorida.com/mfmp/agencycustomers

• MFMP U Buyer Training Materials

– http://www.dms.myflorida.com/mfmp/agencycustomer/registration

• MFMP Vendor Information Portal (VIP)

– https://vendor.MyFloridaMarketPlace.com/

Resources

Contact the MyFloridaMarketPlace team:

Phone: (866) 352-3776

Fax: (850) 414-8192

Email: BuyerHelp@MyFloridaMarketPlace.com

Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Eastern time

Resources