Approach 1. Direct Notice Delivery

 

Everyone pays the notice provider to allow each user to have your own individual search - often limited to one automated search per day.

Alternatively, ad hoc searches are available, but take enormous amounts of time and effort on a regular (often daily) basis.

Because each user is dealt with separately, there is no intelligent information sharing. This can lead to:

Missed opportunities - two people believe each other will respond;
Duplicate responses - two or more sales professionals respond to the same notice;
Cannot inform colleagues about opportunities that have been found. Other unrelated methods are used: memo, email, voicemail, etc.

It is very expensive way to provide a solution that does not meet your needs, and most organisations avoid it.

Problems Benefits

Expensive;

Often only 1 automated search per user;

Users don't know if anyone else is interested in a particular notice;

Risk of either no, or multiple responses;

Informing others requires a memo, email, phone call, voicemail, etc.

Notices are not always filed within the application - you have to research.

Users have their own search facility;

Users informed by email (mostly);

Users have own ad hoc search facility.