The computerized bidding method matches hospitality facility data and
meeting requirement data, permits the posting of offers and responsive
bidding by both hospitality facility vendors and meeting planners, and
facilitates the exchange of data. In a simplified system, meeting planner
requirement data (at least meeting planner contact data, facilities
requirement data, date range data and price data) is matched to hotel or
hospitality vendor data (at least vendor contact data, location data,
room quantity data, date available range data, and meeting room data),
and the system sends planner offer data to matching hospitality vendors
without disclosing the planner contact data. Thereafter, the hotel
vendors respond and the responses are sent to the meeting planner posting
the offer. The presentation to the planner may be in spread sheet form,
sorted by pre-set criteria.