A system, to establish a trustworthy supplier in an online commerce
environment, includes an aggregated service provider represents a buyer
to source and evaluate a seller. The aggregated service provider collects
the requirements from the buyer, whereby the requirements include product
specification and qualifications of the seller. The aggregated service
provider presents the requirements to a trusted service provider. At the
same time, the aggregated service provider grants the trusted service
provider a permit to issue bound property. A bound property is an award
given to a seller in recognition for his qualifications. The trusted
service provider first provides the seller with a Request For Invitation
and requests the seller to submit a property certificate. The property
certificate contains qualifications of the seller which are affirmed by a
trusted agent. The trusted service provider evaluates the qualifications
of the sellers based on the submitted property certificate and awards a
bound property. In addition, the permit is forwarded to the seller. The
seller then submits the bound property and the permit to the aggregated
service provider. Therefore, the seller returns the permit to the
aggregated service provider who is the original issuer of the permit. The
aggregated service provider authenticates the seller based on the permit.
The aggregated service provider translates the properties into access
rights to certain transaction documents, such as Requests For Quotation
(RFQ).