Procurement
WWW.RECOVERY.ORG
Stay Abreast of Procurement Opportunities Using WWW.RECOVERY.ORG
Recovery.org, a service of Onvia, is tracking American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) spending by Federal, State and Local agencies and provides detailed information about what is happening in our States and Municipalities – from the moment ARRA funds are approved, to a government agency’s issuance of a Bid or RFP, through contract award to a business.
Onvia developed Recovery.org to bring unprecedented levels of transparency and accountability to recovery spending* and to ensure that every business, regardless of size, has equal access to the projects associated with the recovery efforts. In order to create jobs, businesses need information about when and where ARRA-funded projects are happening, and they need to know early on in order to prepare and submit bids/proposals. Onvia’s Recovery.org site provides early notices of projects, RFPs, bid documents, amendments to these documents, and contract award information about contractor and subcontractor recipients of Recovery funds, as close to real-time as is possible. Business owners need this information in order to actually win Recovery-funded contracts and thereby hire or retain employees to perform on the contract.
Onvia is the leading provider of Business-to-Government solutions in the United States, covering the broadest set of industries and products at every level of the public sector – Federal, State, Local and Education. For more than twelve years, Onvia has delivered unparalleled coverage of government purchasing activity and commercial/residential projects for clients in a variety of industries, including:
- Architecture and Engineering
- Construction
- IT/Telecom
- Healthcare
- Operations and Maintenance
- Professional Services
- Transportation
- Water and Energy/Alternative Energy
Businesses across the United States rely on Onvia as a comprehensive resource for industry-specific information needed to make intelligent sales decisions. Find out what Onvia’s paid subscribers already know. To receive five free project leads related to your business, call 1-800-331-2822.
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San Francisco Procurement Ordinance
The Small Business Commission Seeks Public Comment Regarding Local Business Enterprise (LBE) Ordinance on Monday, April 6th at City Hall in Room 400 at 5:30 pm
Board of Supervisor’s President David Chiu introduced legislation to support LBE Contracting with the City..
- require departments to set aside contracts worth $400,000 or less for the Micro-Local Business Enterprise Set Aside Program;
- create a pilot Graduated Local Business Enterprise program that will enable graduated firms to receive a 5% bid discount; and
- allow bidders and proposers the flexibility of meeting the participation goal by either achieving adequate good faith efforts or by meeting and/or exceeding the participation goal based on the availability of MBEs, WBEs, and OBEs.
(http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/committees/materials/090320tdr.pdf)
On Monday, April 6th, the Small Business Commission will discuss components of a complimentary ordinance to place mandatory goals on prime vendors to purchase goods and services from LBE’s. Since a majority of the prime vendors doing business with the City are located outside of San Francisco and few LBE’s are not currently contracting with the City, an ordinance should be put in place to move some of the dollars spent with prime vendors into the local economy. We can learn from corporate best practices and implement a measurement that would mandate a minimum spend of contract into LBE’s without negatively impacting administration. . A corporate supplier diversity executive will present to the Commission and tell how they increased small business participation and how the City can benefit from a similar plan.
This can be a groundbreaking ordinance for our local business community.
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Small Business Contracting Opportunities Workshop
| March 25, 2009 |
Learn how to become a supplier for the State of California and the City and County of San Francisco
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
6:00-8:00 PM
San Francisco LGBT Community Center
1800 Market Street (@ Octavia)
RSVP to Kens@sfcenter.org
The workshop is free, but space is limited!
The State of California and the City and County of San Francisco spend billions of dollars each year on contracts. Your firm can be a part of this marketplace doing business with the state government and providing services for the citizens of San Francisco. During this workshop, you will learn how the State and City buy products and services and you will learn how your business can become a supplier.
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