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BUILT FOR EVERY STEP OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
PlanetBids helps you securely manage bids, vendors, contracts, and compliance with in a streamlined, AI-powered platform.
SAVE TIME
Automate processes and eliminate manual entry.
BOOST TRANSPARENCY
Create more visibility into processes and timelines.
IMPROVE COMPLIANCE
Eliminate risk and be audit-ready at a moment’s notice
DRIVE COMPETITION
Expand your vendor reach and build better relationships.
WHAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE
PlanetBids lets you simplify procurement, ensure compliance, and increase transparency while making it easier for vendors to participate. Eliminate time-consuming manual tasks, reduce errors, and make more informed decisions at every step with tools designed to streamline your workflow without sacrificing accuracy or oversight.
Regulatory Compliance
Receive, track, and manage vendor business certifications, insurance certificates, and licenses, with automatic notifications for expirations or missing documentation.
Competitive Bids
Automatically reach PlanetBids’ network of thousands of approved vendors to expand your network and drive competition.
Open & Fair Process
Track every stage of the procurement lifecycle for increased visibility into procurement processes and timelines, to stay audit-ready and eliminate bid protests.
Time Efficiency
Automate tedious manual solicitation and scope creation, streamline purchase requests and approvals, and eliminate the hassles of paperwork and spreadsheets
Improved Accuracy
Maintain proper version control and approval trails to reduce errors, release more comprehensive solicitations, and eliminate unnecessary risk.
Responsible Spending
Strategically plan purchasing and improve vendor relationships to drive more advantageous outcomes, ensuring the best use of your taxpayer dollars.
Regulatory Compliance,
Receive, track, and manage vendor business certifications, insurance certificates, and licenses, with automatic notifications for expirations or missing documentation.
]Regulatory Compliance
Receive, track, and manage vendor business certifications, insurance certificates, and licenses, with automatic notifications for expirations or missing documentation.
Competitive Bids,
Automatically reach PlanetBids’ network of thousands of approved vendors to expand your network and drive competition.
]Competitive Bids
Automatically reach PlanetBids’ network of thousands of approved vendors to expand your network and drive competition.
Open & Fair Process,
Track every stage of the procurement lifecycle for increased visibility into procurement processes and timelines, to stay audit-ready and eliminate bid protests.
]Open & Fair Process
Track every stage of the procurement lifecycle for increased visibility into procurement processes and timelines, to stay audit-ready and eliminate bid protests.
Time Efficiency,
Automate tedious manual solicitation and scope creation, streamline purchase requests and approvals, and eliminate the hassles of paperwork and spreadsheets
]Time Efficiency
Automate tedious manual solicitation and scope creation, streamline purchase requests and approvals, and eliminate the hassles of paperwork and spreadsheets
Improved Accuracy,
Maintain proper version control and approval trails to reduce errors, release more comprehensive solicitations, and eliminate unnecessary risk.
]Improved Accuracy
Maintain proper version control and approval trails to reduce errors, release more comprehensive solicitations, and eliminate unnecessary risk.
Responsible Spending,
Strategically plan purchasing and improve vendor relationships to drive more advantageous outcomes, ensuring the best use of your taxpayer dollars.
]Responsible Spending
Strategically plan purchasing and improve vendor relationships to drive more advantageous outcomes, ensuring the best use of your taxpayer dollars.
HOW PLANETBIDS WORKS
From request to award, vendor management to contract tracking, PlanetBids is designed to help you in every step of the procurement lifecycle, with AI-powered tools to save time and automate manual tasks.
KEY FEATURES
PlanetBids brings together everything procurement teams need into one intuitive platform, without the add-on costs or workarounds. From unlimited, customizable solicitation templates to real-time vendor communication, robust evaluation tools, and built-in compliance tracking, each feature is built to simplify workflows, reduce risk, and deliver better outcomes for public agencies and constituents.
AI-Powered Scope Writing
Let our powerful tools help you craft comprehensive solicitations that leave no room for confusion.
AI-Powered Q&A
Let AI analyze and group similar vendor questions to answer together, and assign question groups for specific team members to respond.
Evaluation Workflows
Set clear scoring metrics, automatically calculate responses, and improve ease and accuracy for your entire evaluation team.
Comprehensive RFx Library
Access a library of thousands of similar solicitations to see how others wrote scopes.
Unlimited Templates
Upload as many RFx templates as you like, use our included template suggestions, or create your own solicitations on the fly, with no upcharges.
Insurance Management
Allow vendors to directly upload their proof of insurance and get notifications when expiration dates are closing in.
Business Certification Tracking
Verify and manage SBE and DBE documentation, with automatic notifications for missing or expiring certs.
Emergency Operations Management
When disaster strikes, you’ll get an unlimited user access to help streamline and speed up response and recovery time.
AI-Powered Scope Writing
Let our powerful tools help you craft comprehensive solicitations that leave no room for confusion.
AI-Powered Q&A
Let AI analyze and group similar vendor questions to answer together, and assign question groups for specific team members to respond.
Evaluation Workflows
Set clear scoring metrics, automatically calculate responses, and improve ease and accuracy for your entire evaluation team.
Comprehensive RFx Library
Access a library of thousands of similar solicitations to see how others wrote scopes.
Unlimited Templates
Upload as many RFx templates as you like, use our included template suggestions, or create your own solicitations on the fly, with no upcharges.
Insurance Management
Allow vendors to directly upload their proof of insurance and get notifications when expiration dates are closing in.
Business Certification Tracking
Verify and manage SBE and DBE documentation, with automatic notifications for missing or expiring certs.
Emergency Operations Management
When disaster strikes, you’ll get an unlimited user access to help streamline and speed up response and recovery time.
WATER DISTRICT
Automating bids and RFPs through the PlanetBids has made the procurement department's job easier and more efficient.
— John Poli, Procurement Team Manager
PLANETBIDS FITS YOUR AGENCY'S GOALS
Resource Management
Save time and money with greater efficiency.
Stronger Solicitations
Streamline RFx writing and release
Supplier Relationships
Simplify communication and performance tracking.
Improved Compliance
Eliminate risk and stay audit-ready.
Greater Transparency
Showcase fair and responsible purchasing.
PLANETBIDS FOR YOUR TEAM
Chief Procurement Officer
Reactive procurement that lacks strategy
Get a high-level overview of operations and performance for more strategic planning.
Procurement Manager
Difficulty tracking procurement spending
Streamline processes and improve cross-departmental communication
IT Director
Complicated software, minimal adoption
Get advanced security features combined with expert training and an intuitive user experience for quicker overall adoption.
Finance Director
Lack of visibility into historical spend
Automate cost tracking and analysis with real-time spend reporting and performance history to stay on budget
Assistant Superintendent
Difficulty managing limited resource
Simplified processes, streamlined workflows, and IT-powered assistance maximize time, and better analytics optimize decision making for small teams.
Procurement Specialist
Overwhelmed by workload
AI-powered tools make solicitation creation and release and bid submission smoother.
Vendor LiaisoN
Scattered and missed communications
Simplify vendor management with an easy-to-use vendor portal.
Contract Manager
Scattered paperwork and broken spreadsheets
Vendor and contract documentation is centralized and easily accessible to stay audit ready at all times.
EXPAND YOUR PROCUREMENT
Our technology enables you to digitalize and submit solicitations online to a greater vendor pool, allowing you to extend the reach of your bids, boost efficiency, and lower costs.
