Lanyon Acquires RFP Express
Strengthens Leadership Position
Dallas, Texas – 23 May 2008 – Lanyon, Inc. (www.lanyon.com),
the leading, independent provider of content management and RFP technology to the
global travel industry, today announced it has acquired the assets of RFP Express,
Inc., a provider of technology and services to corporations, travel management companies
and hotels worldwide. Both companies help issue and respond to the complex
Requests For Proposal involved in negotiating preferred hotel rates for corporations
and agencies.
With the addition of approximately 190 RFP Express clients, supporting over 2,500
companies, Lanyon has consolidated its position as the largest supplier in the field.
By bringing an unprecedented number of travel buyers and suppliers together in a
web-based environment, Lanyon has increased ability to drive additional business
to travel suppliers. Its best-of-breed technology delivers cost savings to
all parties involved in the RFP process. Complementary technology services
help collect, manage and distribute the content – information about individual properties
including rates, pictures, etc. – that hotels and hotel chains need to publish to
today’s many distribution channels.
With this acquisition, Lanyon will now:
- Provide RFP and content tools to over 80,000 hotels;
- Serve hundreds of large corporations, in many industries;
- Support the multiple languages needed by a global business;
- Provide industry-leading technology to mega-travel agencies;
- Process bids against RFPs issued by or on behalf of over 21,000 corporate, leisure,
travel management company and agency accounts; and
- Process substantially more than the one million bids that it processed in 2007.
“This acquisition further enhances our position as a leading RFP solutions provider
and provides clarity for travel suppliers and buyers in the process of selecting
a partner for RFP processing,” said Todd E. Tyler, president and chief executive
officer of Lanyon. “Because it both complements and expands our current product
offerings, we are able to better serve our existing and newly acquired customers.”
Lanyon solutions are already among the most comprehensive in the market, with solutions
for many of the travel industry’s information technology needs also including web-based
GDS access and e-procurement.
About Lanyon
For 24 years, Lanyon has been delivering exceptional content distribution technologies
to the travel industry. Today, Lanyon is the recognized leader in Content Management
Solutions for the global hotel industry. From its early success with GDS publishing
and productivity tools to its RFP solutions for hotels, consortia and corporations,
Lanyon solutions are used globally to reduce data management costs and effectively
manage and distribute hotel content.
Established in 1984 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, over 80,000 hotels and over
200 hotel brands now use Lanyon for their content management.
To learn more about Lanyon, visit http://www.lanyon.com
Create and maintain your corporate preferred lodging programs. View the status of
your hotel RFP (Request For Proposal) process at a glance using our Corporate Dashboard.
Send thousands of hotel solicitations with a click of a button. Negotiate rates
and amenities on-line to reduce cycle time and maximize your lodging dollar. Sort
and export RFP responses, negotiations, and final responses or review all response
information and make comparisons on-line. Create ASCII exports for your on-line
booking tool, travel agency or for reporting purposes. Maximize the return on your
preferred hotel program using the RFP Express Hotel Directory. RFP Express also
provides partial or complete program management services making it possible for
corporate travel and procurement managers to outsource specific components or the
entire hotel RFP process.
Manage your entire solicitation process from one portal. Monitor and assist individual
properties with corporate solicitations and consortia submissions with our unique
Dashboard. Mine for new business using the RFP Express unsolicited bid feature,
assign account managers to specific corporate accounts or industry segments including
corporate and consortia. Our hotel chain and group tool allows you to easily create
internal RFPs and respond in both the NBTA or Carlson formats, conduct negotiations
on-line, communicate with regional and property level sales personnel using the
RFP tool, and of course, store all your property level information and agreements,
electronically – all in one place!
Store your NBTA property profile and rate information for easy completion of RFPs.
Reply to solicitations with the click of your mouse. Negotiate on-line for easier
rate tracking and cycle time reduction. Access additional bid opportunities and
create new business relationships with our unsolicited bid feature.