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SciQuest's Eprocurement Platform Offers Government Purchasing Alliance's
    Participants an Intuitive Solution for Driving Spending to Preferred
                                 Contracts

    CARY, N.C., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- SciQuest, Inc., the global leader
empowering enterprises to realize the potential of strategic procurement,
today announced that U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance (U.S.
Communities), a nonprofit instrumentality of government that assists local
and state government agencies, school districts, higher education and
nonprofit organizations pool their purchasing power nationwide, has
partnered with the company.

    Through this partnership, select U.S. Communities' supplier contracts
that have been competitively solicited by a lead public agency will be
available via the SciQuest Supplier Network. Participating agencies that
implement SciQuest's procurement automation solutions will be able to
access U.S. Communities' contracts through an intuitive online shopping
environment that integrates all of the agency's supplier contracts onto a
single platform and enables users to make all of their purchases through
one system.

    "We provide a forum for public sector and nonprofit organizations to
realize the savings that stem from these competitively solicited contracts
with the combined purchasing power of our participants," said Chris Mellis,
program manager of U.S. Communities. "SciQuest's online shopping
environment is user-friendly and automates the entire purchasing process.
With this technology, it will now be easier than ever to take advantage of
U.S. Communities' contracts."

    U.S. Communities has more than 33,000 participating public agencies and
over 400 new organizations register to participate each month. SciQuest's
suite of eprocurement solutions will provide a powerful and intuitive way
for participating agencies to drive spending to all of their cost-saving
contracts through a single environment for every agency purchase.

    "We are excited that SciQuest is now a U.S. Communities partner because
it will enable Emory to further leverage the cost and process efficiencies
we've gained from our SciQuest eprocurement solution with the savings that
U.S. Communities' contracts deliver," said David Thurston, associate vice
president for financial operations at Emory University. "It is the ideal
plug-and-play scenario for optimizing procurement, dropping a wide range of
contracts negotiated by U.S. Communities into Emory's private marketplace
that's powered by SciQuest."

    U.S. Communities' participating agencies spend more than $1.3 billion
each year on goods and services purchased through its contracts with
world-class suppliers like AutoZone, Haworth, HD Supply Facilities
Maintenance, Herman Miller, Office Depot and its technology division Tech
Depot, Sportime, and Virco. This partnership will benefit agencies and
suppliers alike. SciQuest's ability to bring spending under management and
drive purchases to on-contract items helps participating suppliers secure a
greater share of the market and realize process efficiencies.

    SciQuest's eprocurement solutions are designed to enable all
individuals across an organization to make purchases easily and quickly on
a system that gives procurement and financial professionals unprecedented
real-time visibility into organization-wide spending. Among U.S.
Communities' participants, purchases of this kind are often only exceeded
by payroll and spending on capital projects.

    "In today's challenging economic environment, government agencies,
academic institutions and nonprofit organizations are under unprecedented
pressure to stretch the value of their financial resources," said Stephen
Wiehe, president and CEO of SciQuest. "This partnership will enable U.S.
Communities' participants to utilize a system that encourages the user
participation and adoption required to realize the full potential of
negotiated contracts."

    For a limited time, SciQuest is offering an Early Bird Discount for
U.S. Communities' participating agencies that are interested in taking
immediate advantage of the SciQuest and U.S. Communities partnership. For
more information, please visit SciQuest in Booth 611 on U.S. Communities
Street at the NIGP Annual Forum, July 28-29 in Charlotte, N.C., or contact
your SciQuest account executive.

    About SciQuest, Inc.

    SciQuest's procurement automation and supplier enablement solutions
empower leading organizations to realize the potential of strategic
procurement. The company's specialized knowledge, on-demand software, and
service-first approach enable public and private enterprises across the
globe to manage spend, drive ROI, and advance their critical missions.

    SciQuest's deep understanding of its served vertical markets combined
with a broad supplier network and intuitive, online shopping experience
increase user and contract adoption while improving operational
efficiencies. Through software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment,
organizations can quickly implement the right eprocurement solution to
augment existing ERP investments or fully enable all aspects of purchasing
from sourcing to settlement.

    For more information about SciQuest, please visit
http://www.sciQuest.com or call 877-710-0413 in the U.S. or +44 1794 341182
in Europe.

    SciQuest is a registered trademark of SciQuest, Inc. Other trademarks
contained herein remain the property of their respective owners.



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     Davies Murphy Group
     781-418-2437
     kphillips@daviesmurphy.com