About SicommNet

Secure Internet Commerce Network Inc. (SicommNet) was founded in 1998 by a team including public sector procurement management; supply chain professionals and information technology trailblazers who developed and implemented online eProcurement systems for electronically automating and managing government agency buying and selling processes. SicommNet became the first United States based company to successfully provide public sector eProcurement application “Software as a Service” (SaaS) to State and local government municipalities and their respective vendor customers. Today this is referred to as “Running in the Cloud” secure hosted service.  

SicommNet provides an enterprise eProcurement software suite. Our eProcurement suite offers end-to-end eProcurement processes including requisition and solicitation creations, approvals, opportunity postings and notifications to registered vendors, vendor pre-bid conference announcements and pre-registration, addendum notifications, vendor question and answer periods, vendor electronic submission of response, sealed bid opening, bid tabulation and internal distribution evaluations, and electronic notifications of awards, followed by purchase orders, shipping notification, receipt, (and when integrated with the Agency Financial Accounting System) authorization for payment. Our additional eProcurement capabilities include iCatalog, contract tracking, ad hoc reporting, and spend analysis.

As a leader in the eProcurement industry, our cloud-based solutions are designed and built to meet the increasing procurement demands of public agencies by ensuring efficiency and spend management through automating, consolidating, and potentially centralizing procurement information and processes.

Our knowledgeable support and technical staff is dedicated to provide immediate response to agency and vendor inquiries, making recommendations for best eProcurement practices to ensure successful interaction occurs. Our eProcurement suite streamlines the entire procurement processes for Users by only using web browser and Internet access with no specialty software or hardware required. SicommNet’s comprehensive SaaS solution is built on usability, scalability, affordability, security, transparency and visibility for all end-users.

SicommNet’s registered vendor base consists of a large network of government vendors and suppliers as well as non-government providers offering needed products and services. This diverse database has provided our Agency partners with multiple opportunities of cost savings being provided with high quality needed vendor goods and services.

In Memoriam
James G. Beran
Corporate VP and CIO, Chief Architect/Co-Founder

James had over twenty years experience in systems analysis and design, and was responsible for all software development at SicommNet. For his work in computer systems design and implementation, serving the County of San Diego Department of Information Services, James received numerous awards and commendations from County Department Directors and the Board of Supervisors. James designed the original San Diego County SDCINET system and in 1994 as manager of the application system engineers’ staff moved the county to the Internet. James was principal architect of numerous internet based county services and was solely responsible for the design and programming of the BuyNet interactive electronic commerce system which today remains on the leading edge of Internet based government information systems.

Prior to his computer systems career, as the southern California applications systems engineer for metallurgical industry leader Vanguard Pacific, Inc., James engineered over one hundred selective electroplating industrial systems in the field for both Military and leading industrial electronic and defense component manufacturing corporations.

James co-founded SicommNet in March 1998