Free monthly workshop designed to help procurement and auxiliary departments utilize the robust features found within the PB System more effectively. Designed with your workday in mind, we’ll be answering common questions, address areas where we think you could benefit from making changes to how you use the system and sharing ideas we’ve found around the PlanetBids family.

This webinar is for clients only. Vendors/Suppliers/Contractors may not attend.

Please register at least 30 min prior to start time. Late submission may not be accepted.

Implementing an eProcurement solution is one of the top initiatives facing agencies today, but making the change is a daunting task within a government organization. Sign up for this free webinar to hear how a former Director of Purchasing & Contracts at a high school district successfully justified an eProcurement solution. The quick tips shared from lessons learned can help you achieve your goal.

In this session, we will discuss tips on:
- Defining Objectives and Challenges
- How to Influence
- Risk Mitigation
- Get Buy-In
- Factors to look for in choosing the best business partner for you.

How can technology take your department to the next level from tactical to strategic? Even if you are currently using technology for electronic bidding and vendor registration, how about other business functions such as project evaluation, contract management, compliance, insurance certificate management, emergency operations, and business certification such as Diversity or Prequalification?

Let us show you how PlanetBids solution is AGILE and a game-changer, taking the purchasing function from tactical to strategic. It also benefits your business community, providing a transparent solution connecting vendors and contractors to your organization.

Managing a construction bid is so multi-faceted, it can be overwhelming at times. Questions abound! Who should we send the bids to? Who’s interested in possibly bidding? Do the plan rooms know? Are we getting the best bids we can? What about transparency? Are we getting bids from qualified bidders? Do they meet all the requirements for my agency/state?

Few companies can offer a Bid Management module that works and is trusted by agencies and vendors alike for Construction and Public Works projects. For over 20 years, PlanetBids has successfully helped Port Authorities, Cities, Counties, Airports, and Public Works Departments, to name just a few, manage their construction bids successfully!

Attend this complimentary webinar to learn how our distinct PB System™ Vendor and Bid Management modules paired with Advance eBidding for Public Works and Business Certification for Prequalifications enable public agencies to manage the full construction bidding process - including acceptance of ebids and ebonds!

Finding and maintaining a qualified list of vendors to bid on construction projects can be a full time, paper intensive task. The Business Certification module enables your organization to prequalify at multiple levels, manage, and retrieve up-to-date information on qualified contractors, and send automatic renewal notices. Business Certification seamlessly connects with Vendor and Bid Management to give you the control you need in accepting offers from qualified vendors.

Register to see how cities, counties, colleges, and other government Public Works Departments are managing prequalifications and controlling bid participation today.

The world of public procurement is changing. Procurement professionals need the tools to meet those challenges. From outreach, tracking vendor participation, managing pre-bid meetings, questions and issuing addenda and finally receiving and evaluating offers.

All these time consuming and resource intensive tasks can be streamlined and taken online to help our team quickly and easily manage procurements, reduce waste, and meet environmentally friendly initiatives all while saving costs! Users of the PB System have reaped significant savings in just their first bid!

You’ve researched the tools to help your internal clients - now it’s time to research for the tools to help you!

One of the most detailed parts of the RFP or BID timeline is the evaluation process. Most agencies conduct this process by paper - asking for numerous copies to be submitted, handing them out to the evaluation team and then compiling and collecting scores.

Evaluation management enables any organization to interactively conduct the RFP and bid evaluation process entirely online. Procurement can assign unlimited evaluators, track evaluator progress, set criteria, issue and collect documents, and run reports and much more all from one complete system.

Learn how your agency can save time and streamline your evaluation process!

Changes happen every day all around us. Some changes can be controlled, and others occur whether we're ready for it or not. Recently, the world had to suddenly adjust to the changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the challenges facing Public Works is how to accept bonds while still maintaining social distancing protocols and ensuring the bonds are not fraudulent. The surety industry is pushing for agencies to enact electronic bonding because of the transparency in the process, elimination of the possibility of fraud, and maintaining social distancing protocols.
Guest speaker: Surety2000

  In this session, we will discuss:
- What is an eBond
- How the process works
- How it protects your agency
- Who's accepting eBonds

Ever get surprised that a contract has already expired or exceeded its spend limits? Had a department announced at the last possible minute it’s time for a new contract? How about a board member wanting to know contract spend to special interest groups (SBE, Local) or even public information requests? Lastly, and most importantly - are you covered for risks?

The PB System™ Contract Management Suite is designed to do all that and more. Contract administrators can maintain and retrieve up-to-date relevant information regarding contracts, run reports, send contracts for signature and so much more.

Join our upcoming Contract Management Suite webinar to find out more about what PlanetBids can do for your organization.

While many believe that on-site operations or public safety are high-risk areas for your agency, you might be surprised there is another key area of risk: procurement. From initial contract negotiations to managing the awarded contract over time, the process has a great potential liability. If an initial procurement process is protested, right language is not incorporated into the terms and conditions, or negligent contract oversight, then risk increases exponentially. Discover ways to work more closely with your organization’s procurement team to close any potential coverage gaps.

Generalized training for PB Clients on Vendor and Bid Management. This session is great for new employees or current employees wanting a refresher. Session is limited to the first 250 attendees. Cost for this session is $135 per registration.

This session is not designed for Vendors/Suppliers/Contractors.

Please register at least 30 min prior to start time. Late submission may not be accepted.

Want to learn how to save money, energy, and GHG emissions through your purchasing practices? Join us on November 30th at 10am PST to learn more about the CEC-funded Empower Procurement program, how to write effective solicitations to ensure that you receive sustainable products, and what PlanetBids can do to support sustainable purchasing. Our team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will run through how our no-cost program helps large California institutions establish best practices to increase their sustainable purchasing.

Suppliers who contract with government agencies are required to maintain current insurance. Unfortunately, this job of evaluating, requesting, updating and maintaining the insurance files are left up to either procurement or the user customer departments. When done manually, or through non-centralized methods, the tracking becomes more onerous and complicated.

And what if something happens? Where the lawyers are now involved, and the Agency is now exposed to liability issues? Now, you need immediate access to the most up-to-date insurance certificate on file, along with all the past updates. The easiest and most stress-free way to handle the insurance desk is to automate. Learn more about the capabilities of how the PlanetBids System can provide the tools and transparency needed for this detailed and tedious, but extremely important part of the contracting process.