Providing a web site for buyers and sellers of industrial products and services, where buyers and sellers can locate each other to transact business; providing buyers with information about the products and services of sellers and connecting buyers with sellers of products and services via a global computer information network; infomediary services, namely, facilitating and managing transactions between buyers and sellers for of a wide variety of industrial products and services by connecting buyers and sellers over a global computer network; providing information via global computer network, regarding requests for quotations issued by buyers wishing to purchase certain goods or services and prospective supplier's corresponding availability and prices for the requested goods or services made in response to a request for quotation