# How Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City (BCBS KC) uses Fairmarkit

**$2,000**: “average savings of about $2,000 per RFQ”

As published on [fairmarkit.com](https://www.fairmarkit.com/case-studies/blue-kc). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-07.

- Company: [Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City (BCBS KC)](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/blue-cross-blue-shield-of-kansas-city-bcbs-kc.md)
- Tool: [Fairmarkit](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/fairmarkit.md)
- Teams: Procurement

## What the story says

The procurement department uses Fairmarkit to automate and run RFQs and to send requests to vendors through its marketplace. This lets the team get more competitive bids and widen its vendor pool without adding full-time staff.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Fairmarkit and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City (BCBS KC), not ours.

> they realized an ROI after only 3 months and saw an average savings of about $2,000 per RFQ. Seeing cost savings, even with a limited scope of spend, validated expanding to more spend categories soon after.

- **$10M+**: “$10M+ return on investment”
- **50+**: “50+ new vendors identified from the marketplace”

> It is a significant source of process improvement, resource improvement, and identifying opportunities that we never knew existed before,
>
> Tim Genter, Manager of Procurement and Sourcing Governance

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-07.

- Checked: the figure $2,000 is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City (BCBS KC).
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City (BCBS KC).
- Checked: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City (BCBS KC) uses Fairmarkit. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-07.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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Source: https://www.usedby.ai/case-studies/blue-cross-and-blue-shield-of-kansas-city-fairmarkit · How we check: https://www.usedby.ai/methodology