SERVING DELAWARE GOVERNMENT & EDUCATION AGENCIES
THE EPROCUREMENT PLATFORM DELAWARE AGENCIES CHOOSE TO MODERNIZE PROCUREMENT
Built for counties, municipalities, school districts, and special districts, and compliant with HB 72's 2023 bid-threshold reform and Delaware's overlapping MWBE, DelDOT, and county/city SBE certification requirements. Available on the Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS) with no new RFP required.
Delaware agencies Cooperative purchasing options are available to allow your agency to purchase PlanetBids without a new competitive solicitation. Ask our team about options for your agency type.
TRUSTED BY AGENCIES ACROSS THE NORTHEAST
From New York and New Jersey to Connecticut and Massachusetts, PlanetBids helps government agencies in the Northeast run compliant, transparent modern procurement.
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT
HOW JEFFERSON COUNTY TRANSFORMED
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Eliminated stacks of paper and manual spreadsheet tracking – replaced with a centralized digital system that gives staff real-time visibility into every bid and contract in the pipeline
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Completed the County's first fully paperless procurement project in December 2025, just months after go-live – including electronic bid submission, scoring, and award
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Vendors now self-register and receive automatic notifications for new opportunities, eliminating missed outreach from manual email lists and spreadsheets
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Solicitation templates cut time from request to release – no more switching between programs or rebuilding documents from scratch for each purchase
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18 months in, there is full team buy-in, including a 26-year veteran who now "loves working with PlanetBids"
"I tell my team all the time that when they go home, they shouldn't be taking all the stress of work with them. You shouldn't have to be overwhelmed Monday through Friday with how much work you have and then go home and be stressed because all you see in your mind are all these stacks of paper."
Mike Bagley
Purchasing Director, Jefferson County
DELAWARE PROCUREMENT COMPLIANCE
BUILT FOR HOW DELAWARE AGENCIES ARE REQUIRED TO BUY
Delaware's local government procurement is small but structurally fragmented, with no single uniform local procurement code across the state. Each county has its own procurement codes and thresholds, while municipalities range from the sizable Wilmington and Dover to the small towns with no dedicated purchasing staff. PlanetBids is engineered to streamline and simplify the chaos, automating the administrative load and ensuring compliance.
County-Specific Threshold Configuration
PlanetBids supports county procurement codes independently, including HB 72's 2023 threshold increases, by fitting into your workflows, not redesigning them.
MWBE/DBE/SBE Compliance
Track certification and participation for easily accessible reporting across Delaware's three overlapping diversity regimes: the state's Office of Supplier Diversity, DelDOT's federally funded transportation regulations, and county/city-specific programs.
Vocational-Technical Districts
Structured for New Castle County Vo-Tech, Polytech, and Sussex Technical under 14 Del. C. Ch. 26, alongside Delaware's traditional PK-12 districts.
Special District Support
Minimally staffed bodies like sanitary districts operating under 9 Del. C. Ch. 23 can reduce administrative workload by automating key processes in existing workflows.
Audit-Ready Documentation
Timestamped solicitation release, Q&A communication, addenda acknowledgement, and bid submission records are built to withstand elected body and public records scrutiny as HB 72 pushes more spend into formal bidding processes.
Single Vendor Network Across Jurisdictions
For multi-jurisdictional agencies, all participating counties, municipalities, and districts can work through a single vendor portal for supplier registration, project file downloads, communication, and bid submission, rather than spreading purchasing across separate web pages per jurisdiction.
NO NEW BID REQUIRED
Cooperative Purchasing Options
Delaware agencies may be able to purchase PlanetBids through an existing cooperative contract, eliminating the need for a new competitive solicitation. PlanetBids is available on the Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS) as a cooperative contract. Ask your PlanetBids rep about available cooperative vehicles for your agency type.
PROCUREMENT EXPERTISE
NPI-CERTIFIED
PlanetBids is certified as an Achievement in Excellence® (AEP) eProcurement Certified platform by the National Procurement Institute, meeting critical standards for Electronic Sourcing (AEP Criteria 7b) and Electronic Evaluations and Automatic Scorecarding (7c).
EVENT PRESENCE
INDUSTRY EVENT SPONSOR
PlanetBids is a proud member of NIGP and a regular attendee and sponsor of the NIGP Annual Forum, as well as attending annual American Public Works Association and Government Finance Officers Association events nationwide.
THE PLATFORM
EVERYTHING YOUR PROCUREMENT TEAM NEEDS, NOTHING YOU DON'T.
PlanetBids is a modular, end-to-end procurement lifecycle platform. Start with what you need and add modules as your agency grows.
Requests & Solicitations
Create, publish, and manage IFBs, RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs from guided templates. Get live countdowns, drag-and-drop documents, and real-time status tracking.
Vendor Management
Create a centralized vendor registry with real-time Empire State Development MWBE and SDVOB certification verification. Automated outreach by commodity code generates good-faith effort documentation for State Comptroller pre-audit packages and Empire State Development utilization reports.
Compliance & Audit Trails
Every action is timestamped and logged, with automatic bid tabulation, sealed bid verification, and complete documentation trails that hold up to protests – $50B+ processed, zero valid protests.
Contract Management
Centralize awarded contracts with automated expiration alerts, amendment tracking, and insurance certificate management so you ever miss a renewal or compliance deadline.
Project Evaluation
Multi-round scoring with unlimited evaluators, consensus or individual scoring modes, and exportable matrices supports complex RFP evaluations for capital projects and bond programs.
AI with Guardrails
AI tools are built specifically for public procurement, with the compliance controls government agencies require. Get faster drafting and smarter vendor matching, within the boundaries your policies demand.
Requests & Solicitations
Create, publish, and manage IFBs, RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs from guided templates. Get live countdowns, drag-and-drop documents, and real-time status tracking.
Vendor Management
Create a centralized vendor registry with real-time Empire State Development MWBE and SDVOB certification verification. Automated outreach by commodity code generates good-faith effort documentation for State Comptroller pre-audit packages and Empire State Development utilization reports.
Compliance & Audit Trails
Every action is timestamped and logged, with automatic bid tabulation, sealed bid verification, and complete documentation trails that hold up to protests – $50B+ processed, zero valid protests.
Contract Management
Centralize awarded contracts with automated expiration alerts, amendment tracking, and insurance certificate management so you ever miss a renewal or compliance deadline.
Project Evaluation
Multi-round scoring with unlimited evaluators, consensus or individual scoring modes, and exportable matrices supports complex RFP evaluations for capital projects and bond programs.
AI with Guardrails
AI tools are built specifically for public procurement, with the compliance controls government agencies require. Get faster drafting and smarter vendor matching, within the boundaries your policies demand.
THE VENDOR ADVANTAGE
MORE QUALIFIED BIDDERS, ZERO VENDOR PHONE CALLS TO YOUR TEAM.
A deep, pre-qualified vendor network and a dedicated support team handles vendors for you, so your purchasing office can focus on procurement, not vendor phone calls.
VENDOR
NETWORK
40K+ qualified vendors ready to bid on your solicitations
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Vendors are matched to your bids by commodity code, no manual outreach lists required
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Agencies typically jump from 3-4 responses to 10-12 submittals per bid after switching to PlanetBids
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Empire State Development MWBE and SDVOB classifications are built in to meet Delaware's 30% MWBE utilization goals for state-funded projects
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Vendors can register and bid for free, removing the friction that keeps small businesses out
EXCLUSIVE
DEDICATED
VENDOR SUPPORT
We help your vendors so you don't have to
When a vendor has a question about your solicitation, how to upload documents, or how to register, they call us, not your purchasing office. Our dedicated vendor support team handles it directly so your team stays focused on procurement. For you, this means no more:
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Vendor registration help calls
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Document upload questions
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Bid submission troubleshooting
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Addenda & notification questions
Results: Fewer incomplete bids, more competitive responses, and hours back in your team's week, every single procurement cycle.
VENDOR NETWORK
40K+ qualified vendors ready to bid on your solicitations
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Vendors are matched to your bids by commodity code, no manual outreach lists required
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Agencies typically jump from 3-4 responses to 10-12 submittals per bid after switching to PlanetBids
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Empire State Development MWBE and SDVOB classifications are built in to meet Delaware's 30% MWBE utilization goals for state-funded projects
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Vendors can register and bid for free, removing the friction that keeps small businesses out
DEDICATED VENDOR SUPPORT
We help your vendors so you don't have to
When a vendor has a question about your solicitation, how to upload documents, or how to register, they call us, not your purchasing office. Our dedicated vendor support team handles it directly so your team stays focused on procurement. For you, this means no more:
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Vendor registration help calls
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Document upload questions
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Bid submission troubleshooting
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Addenda & notification questions
Results: Fewer incomplete bids, more competitive responses, and hours back in your team's week, every single procurement cycle.
WHO WE ARE
Built by procurement professionals, for procurement professionals
PlanetBids was founded specifically for the public procurement industry, and we understand the needs of procurement professionals. That origin matters, as every feature, every workflow, and every support interaction are designed to reflect how actual purchasing teams manage work under budget pressure, public scrutiny, and legal compliance requirements.
Designed for public procurement since 2000
We're not an ERP company that added a procurement module. We're not a startup that pivoted into GovTech. We're not a big conglomerate chasing a new market. We are a 25-year-old company whose entire business is built around making procurement professionals more effective.
100% US-based support staff with procurement backgrounds
Our in-house support team includes people with real public procurement backgrounds. When you call with a question about sealed bid procedures or vendor protest prevention, you're talking to someone who has managed that process themselves and understands your issues.
A solid foundation of PlanetBids agencies
550+ agencies. 1,000+ users. 99% retention. Zero valid bid protests across $50B+ in contracts processed. Our company has stayed focused on one thing for 25 years, and we have the track record to prove it.
WHAT DELAWARE PROCUREMENT TEAMS ASK US MOST
We're a small town or district with a one- or two-person purchasing team. Is PlanetBids overkill for us?
Absolutely not. In fact, this is the exact use case PlanetBids was designed to handle. PlanetBids is tiered to fit your agency size, budget, and solicitation volume. Many of our agency clients only post a handful of formal solicitations a year, but they still need a defensible, time-stamped record. That's exactly what PlanetBids is built to be, as well as to reduce the administrative load from manual processes.
Does PlanetBids integrate with our ERP or financial system?
Yes, PlanetBids provides API integration with your ERP or financial software platform, passing awarded contract data, vendor information, and purchase requisitions between systems and eliminating duplicate entry while maintaining your ERP as the financial system of record.
PlanetBids handles the vendor-facing competitive bidding process, vendor management, bid solicitation, evaluation, and award, then pushes clean contract and vendor data into your ERP for encumbrance and payment processing. Most clients keep their ERP for accounting while using PlanetBids for the public procurement workflow.
How does PlanetBids align with HB 72's new thresholds?
PlanetBids supports configurable, jurisdiction-specific thresholds that can be tailored to your agency's requirements. As lower thresholds push more procurements into a formal RFP or solicitation, a streamlined, audit-ready system is essential for risk management and reporting.
Can we track MWBE. DelDOT DBE, and our county's requirements for small businesses with PlanetBids?
Yes, Delware has three overlapping but distinct diversity certification oversight bodies – state MWBE, DelDOT federal DBE, and county- or city-specific SBE and DBE programs.
PlanetBids can accept and manage business certifications and participation against whichever requirements applies to a given contract's funding source.
Will vendors actually use a new portal, or do we lose reach compared to an email list?
PlanetBids' vendor portal is designed to improve outreach and simplify the vendor registration process by allowing vendors to set their category code matches, upload their own certificates of insurance with AI parsing, and get automatic notifications of new projects without searching the agency website or waiting on an email. If you cannot find enough vendors for a category, PlanetBids also gives you access to our entire vendor network of suppliers across more than 550 PlanetBids agency clients so you can invite them to register and bid on a new project.
How long does implementation and training take?
Implementation timelines depend largely on the agency, but PlanetBids can typically get most agencies up and running within a few weeks, including implementation, customization, integration, vendor list import, and training. In certain cases, agencies with tight timelines can be live and running their first solicitation in just a few days.
How much does PlanetBids cost?
PlanetBids is priced as an annual SaaS subscription, with no per-bid, vendor, or transaction fees. Vendors register and bid for free, keeping your vendor pool competitive.
Pricing is tiered based on your agency's requirements for features and functionality, budget, agency size, and number of solicitations per year.
READY TO MODERNIZE PROCUREMENT FOR YOUR DELAWARE AGENCY?
Book a 30-minute demo with a member of our dedicated public sector sales team. We'll show you the platform, walk through the TIPS contract process, and answer questions specific to your agency type.
Available on TIPS cooperative with no new RFP required
Compliant with HB 72 configurable thresholds for purchasing
MWBE, DelDOT DBE, and county/city SBE tracking built in
US-based in-house support with extensive procurement expertise
Pricing is tier-based, with options for any agency size and budget
99% client retention means our agencies love us