Sabre Travel Network acquired Web-based hotel request for proposals processor BidStork

and announced a simplified rate loading processwith plans for a hotel rate auditing service and automated hotel profile population into the GetThere self-booking tool. Sabre estimated that travel agents create four million annual "passive" global distribution system bookings because they are unable to find the correct negotiated rates. BidStork's nearly 300 clients include Accenture, Best Buy, Campbell's Soup, Charles Schwab, Google, Levi, Nike and Wal-Mart.