Civic Marketplace Launches 2.0
Local governments are under more pressure than ever. Budgets are tighter, federal funding is being withdrawn, and every city manager and procurement director I speak to is asking the same thing of their teams: find savings, and do more with less. The problem is those same teams are already stretched thin – fighting fires, chasing contracts, navigating fragmented vendor lists, managing compliance – when what they should be doing is driving strategic value for their communities. That's the reality we built Civic Marketplace 2.0 for.
This launch came from listening to and collaborating with the entities and cooperatives we work with. Partners like Michigan Municipal Services AuthorityTXShareNIGP Code & ConsultingEast Texas Council of GovernmentsCity of DentonCity of DallasCity of Brownsville, Texas have been genuine co-designers of what this platform has become. This is as much their platform as it is ours.The platform rests on three pillars: a shared library of cooperative contracts, Quick Quotes and Bake Off powered by agentic ai for fast and auditable supplier comparison, and local business enablement.Together they're delivering real results. We recently worked with an entity evaluating hundreds of proposals – a process that could have taken months. We brought it down to weeks. A 90%+ reduction in procurement lifecycle time from quote to award.The video below shows what the new platform can do. Read the full piece on why this matters here: https://lnkd.in/ehkzHqst
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