SAN DIEGO, CA – July 30, 2009 – Trade Service announced today that McCormick Systems, Inc. (Chandler, AZ), an undisputed leader in contractor estimating software, has incorporated into its offering Supplier Xchange™, Trade Service’s newest Internet-based solution that connects contractors with their preferred suppliers to receive, in real time, customer-specific pricing that may be instantly imported into the contractor’s job estimate.

This new integration gives all McCormick Systems users the ability to streamline their bidding and estimating process by nearly eliminating the amount of time it can take to contact their supplier, request a quote on a list of materials, wait for the supplier to respond by fax, phone, or email, and finally enter the new information to the job estimate which may be down to the wire, needing immediate submittal.

When asked about the value this new capability will afford the McCormick user, Todd McCormick, President of McCormick Systems responded, “Supplier Xchange is a great response to a need that’s been growing over recent years, for a quicker, more accurate way to obtain bid pricing.  Traditional ‘factoring methods’ used with published industry pricing have served their purpose over the years, but it’s gotten increasingly difficult to come up with just the right multiplier that can give the estimator a sharp enough pencil to win the bid and still make a decent profit.  Supplier Xchange solves this problem.”

Trade Service released Supplier Xchange on January 1, 2009 and to-date, more than 2,500 supplier locations and 450 contractors are participating, having collaborated on 8,000+ jobs, worth over $300 million. 

 “We’ve partnered with McCormick for many years to serve the software and content needs of our mutual customers,” stated Tod Moore, Trade Service’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing.  “Now, with McCormick’s integration to Supplier Xchange, the total value we bring to our shared user community has been significantly increased.”

Supplier Xchange is a component of TRA-SER® SX, Trade Service’s new, fully Internet-based electronic catalog and pricing service, and is provided at no additional cost to all TRA-SER subscribers as well as to all suppliers who subscribe to Trade Service’s electronic pricing services.

About McCormick Systems, Inc.
McCormick Systems has been providing Estimation, Project Management, and Time & Material Billing software to the electrical industry for over 30 years.  McCormick Systems offers award winning software solutions to contractors of all sizes doing electrical or automated building systems (ABS) work.  As the innovative leader of CAD estimating software, McCormick’s product line can cut estimating time up to 75%.  For more information, visit www.mccormicksys.com.

About Trade Service
Trade Service is the leading provider of standardized product and price information to the electrical, plumbing/PVF, HVACR, industrial MRO, and office products industries. Since 1931, the company has been the leader in content acquisition, aggregation, management, publishing, and distribution, offering a variety of products, services, and systems to meet the content needs of over 20,000 distributors, contractors, and government agencies. The range of solutions provided includes printed directories, electronic catalogs, pricing data for business system updating, and robust attributed content to fuel full-functioning Internet storefronts.  For more information, visit www.tradeservice.com, or call (858) 521-1514.