FreightForge is a best-practice application in transportation procurement which provides an automated bidding process that allows conditional bids and collaboration, followed by automatic tendering that cascades from core carriers to a more open marketplace, and monitoring for contract compliance and carrier performance. Shippers can use the public transportation marketplace to purchase transportation at real-time spot market rates. After tendering its weekly commitment to dedicated and partner carriers, a shipper places the remaining loads on the public market hosted by FreightForge to which all its core carriers have visibility, allowing them to bid on loads that match their empty capacity. A shipper can recognize 5 percent to 15 percent cost reduction in those areas while carriers are able to capture new loads to fill capacity.