Providing purchasing, ordering, and procurement services for others in connection with educational, laboratory, and healthcare institutions over computer and telecommunications networks, namely, facilitating transactions for the procurement of goods and services for others, purchasing agents, and order fulfillment; advertising and promoting goods and services of others by providing electronic commerce service for others, namely, providing electronic shopping environment that provides information and allows users to perform electronic business transactions over computer and telecommunication networks for advertising and sales purposes in the higher education, life sciences, government and health care fields; providing business intelligence services for others, namely, providing supply chain visibility, and supply and demand forecasting in the education, life sciences, government and health care fields over computers and telecommunications networks; providing sales services for others, namely, providing advertising services, sales promotion services, sales volume tracking for others, and retail store services featuring scientific and medical laboratory equipment and supplies, educational institution equipment and supplies, and health care institution equipment and supplies over computer and telecommunication networks