Smart Procurement. Strong Communities.
We empower local governments to streamline procurement with pre-vetted, compliant vendors, ensuring 100% legal compliance and time savings.
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Fast procurement with 100% legal compliance & time-savings.
Our platform simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.
Key Features
Precision Search at Your Fingertips
Experience the ease of our intuitive search feature leveraging GenAI, guaranteeing precise results for your queries, and leveraging proprietary Learning Language models.
Tailored Results for Your Needs
Customize your search experience by filtering results based on solutions, location, Veteran, Minority & Women Owned Business status, date, or other parameters, ensuring information that aligns perfectly with your requirements.
Our advanced search feature makes it easy to find exactly what you need with pinpoint accuracy.
Connect with a network of pre-vetted vendors, ensuring compliance and reliability for every deal. Our platform guarantees access to high-quality solutions.
Filter results by solutions, location, SMWB status, and other criteria to find the best vendors and products that meet your specific requirements.
Precision Search at Your Fingertips
Experience the ease of our intuitive search feature leveraging GenAI, guaranteeing precise results for your queries, and leveraging proprietary Learning Language models.
Tailored Results for Your Needs
Customize your search experience by filtering results based on solutions, location, Veteran, Minority & Women Owned Business status, date, or other parameters, ensuring information that aligns perfectly with your requirements.
Enjoy a more efficient procurement process, saving both time and money while maintaining 100% legal compliance.
Our platform simplifies the buying process, cutting procurement timelines in half, and ensuring quicker delivery for your projects.
Take advantage of competitive pricing for bulk purchases, securing the best deals and maximizing value while stretching taxpayer dollars.
Precision Search at Your Fingertips
Experience the ease of our intuitive search feature leveraging GenAI, guaranteeing precise results for your queries, and leveraging proprietary Learning Language models.
Tailored Results for Your Needs
Customize your search experience by filtering results based on solutions, location, Veteran, Minority & Women Owned Business status, date, or other parameters, ensuring information that aligns perfectly with your requirements.
Simplify your selection process with our intuitive tools, making it easy to choose from pre-approved, reliable vendors that meet your needs.
Enhance your vendor comparison with our support for bake-offs, providing the tools and guidance needed to evaluate multiple vendors and ensure cost-effective procurement solutions efficiently.
Receive comprehensive assistance throughout the procurement process, from selection to acquisition, ensuring a smooth and legally compliant experience.
Precision Search at Your Fingertips
Experience the ease of our intuitive search feature leveraging GenAI, guaranteeing precise results for your queries, and leveraging proprietary Learning Language models.
Tailored Results for Your Needs
Customize your search experience by filtering results based on solutions, location, Veteran, Minority & Women Owned Business status, date, or other parameters, ensuring information that aligns perfectly with your requirements.
Boost the efficiency of local government procurement through innovative capacity-building programs that promote excellence and resilience.
Access specialized support designed for procurement agencies, equipping them with the skills and knowledge to handle complex procurement landscapes efficiently and strategically.
Collaborate with us to enhance procurement capabilities, enabling local governments and agencies to manage procurement with a focus on compliance, speed, and innovation.
Precision Search at Your Fingertips
Experience the ease of our intuitive search feature leveraging GenAI, guaranteeing precise results for your queries, and leveraging proprietary Learning Language models.
Tailored Results for Your Needs
Customize your search experience by filtering results based on solutions, location, Veteran, Minority & Women Owned Business status, date, or other parameters, ensuring information that aligns perfectly with your requirements.
Advance fairness and inclusivity through our equity lens approach, ensuring procurement processes actively support Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses.
Drive local economic growth by sourcing from SMWB vendors, enhancing community empowerment and fostering innovation.
Adapt your procurement strategies to address diverse supplier needs, creating an inclusive and equitable marketplace that benefits the community.
It’s hard to procure tech & services for local government
Repetitive and Expensive
Procurement often gets overly complicated with complex technical RFPs, causing delays, inefficiencies, and under-utilized solutions. Limited access to reliable, pre-vetted vendors drives up costs and wastes valuable resources.
Regulatory Barriers
Legacy systems and services with legal structures that exist, but are complex to navigate and understand.
Time-Consuming Processes
Approvals in local government take too long, delaying vital projects. The lack of streamlined procurement tools means teams spend more time on paperwork than progress.
Limited Knowledge & Agility
Rapidly evolving technology demands agile procurement practices. Local governments often struggle to leverage external expertise to keep up with innovation and make informed decisions
The Facts
12 months is the average time taken to finalize procurement deals.
Nearly 50% of agency RFPs run into significant issues.
More than 10% of GDP is spent on Public Procurement.
Over half of procurement officers reported critical constraints without e-procurement.
Discover the future of smart procurement.
Supported by our co-design process with agencies
“Shrink the time frame, because that would be a win for suppliers. That would be a win for all of our procurement agents.”
“The biggest problem is finding a list of good vendors, that have been vetted.”
“We haven’t found a one size fits all, so to have that to where it all seamlessly fits together and potentially tie into your major ERPs would be ideal for anybody.”
“It would be very useful to be able to go out and get proposals from vendors that have cooperative contracts for the services or goods that we’re looking for.”
12 Months
Average time to finalize procurement deals
50%
Nearly half of agency RFPs run into significant issues
+10%
GDP is spent on Public Procurement
59%
Of staff reported critical constraint without an e-procurement platform
Our Mission
Civic Marketplace is a values-driven organization dedicated to enhancing public services through transparency, efficiency, and exceptional stakeholder engagement. We deeply believe in the nobility of public service and strive to advance the interests of our member governments and the communities they serve.
Our Core Values
Commitment to the Public Interest
We are committed to upholding the public interest and advancing the causes of our member governments, ensuring that their needs are met with integrity and accountability.
Inclusive Access
We promote enhanced access for small, local, and diverse/minority/women-owned enterprises (D/M/WBE vendors), fostering a level playing field and supporting economic growth within the communities we serve.
Transparency and Best Value
Through transparent processes, we ensure competitive pricing and deliver the best value for our members, promoting trust and responsible stewardship of public resources.
Efficiency and Compliance
Our highly streamlined processes prioritize efficiency while maintaining full legal and procedural compliance, ensuring seamless operations for both members and vendors.
Exceptional Stakeholder Engagement
We actively engage with our stakeholders – members and vendors – fostering open communication, collaboration, and mutual understanding to deliver outstanding service.
Trust-Based Relationships
We are committed to building trust-based relationships with everyone we interact with, ensuring that our business practices foster transparency, integrity, and respect.
Commitment to the Public Interest
Our highly streamlined processes prioritize efficiency while maintaining full legal and procedural compliance, ensuring seamless operations for both members and vendors.
Inclusive Access
We promote enhanced access for Historically Underutilized Business, fostering a level playing field and supporting economic growth within the communities we serve.
Transparency and
Best Value
Through transparent processes, we ensure competitive pricing and deliver the best value for our members, promoting trust and the responsible stewardship of public resources.
Efficiency and Compliance
Our highly streamlined processes prioritize efficiency while maintaining full legal and procedural compliance, ensuring seamless operations for both members and vendors.
Exceptional Stakeholder Engagement
We actively engage with our stakeholders – members and vendors – fostering open communication, collaboration, and mutual understanding to deliver outstanding service.
Trust-Based Relationships
We are committed to building trust-based relationships with everyone we interact with, ensuring that our business practices foster transparency, integrity, and respect.
Our Guiding Principle
At Civic Marketplace, we consider ourselves public servants in the private sector, dedicated to upholding the values enshrined in the Athenian Oath:
"We will never bring disgrace on this our city by an act of dishonesty or cowardice. We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the City both alone and with many. We will revere and obey the city's laws and will do our best to incite a like reverence and respect in those above us who are prone to annul them or set them at naught. We will strive unceasingly to quicken the public's sense of civic duty. Thus, in all these ways, we will transmit this city not only, not less, but greater and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us."
Join us in our mission to build a better future for our communities through transparent, efficient, and inclusive public services.
Meet the Leadership Team
At Civic Marketplace, we blend profound knowledge and understanding of the public sector landscape with cutting-edge product and technology solutions.
Kip Harkness
Kip is currently Deputy City Manager for the City of San José guiding the execution of the City’s enterprise priorities of Emergency Management and Preparedness, and Smart Sustainable and Reliable City: 21st Century Infrastructure: Former Global Head & Director of Innovation @ Paypal. Harvard Lecturer on Civic Innovation.
Marco Flammini
Marco plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of procurement technology for local government agencies. As our design visionary, he leads the creation of intuitive and impactful user experiences, collaborate closely with product and engineering teams, and set the standard for design excellence across our platform.
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