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Public Agencies – Streamline Bid Management

Public agencies are tasked with providing cost-effective, reliable services, often with limited resources. PennBid’s powerful system streamlines the bid management process for all public & local government agencies: Cities, Counties, Townships, Towns, Boroughs, Authorities and more. With PennBid, you reach more qualified bidders, save time and money, and promote compliance throughout your bidding process. Make your organization efficient and effective by having the ability to quickly and easily review and award your bids and RFPs.

Forget subscription-based services or developing your own system. With a unique business model developed through a public-private collaboration, PennBid is provided to all agencies posting and managing bids at NO COST!

Save Time and Money on Bid Management

On average, PennBid reduces the time and energy associated with bid management by 80%. Our intuitive platform allows even first-time users to effectively manage their solicitations with minimal effort. And if needed, PennBid has tons of resources to assist, including unlimited, free live support.

Get More Qualified Bidder Responses

Over 36,000 bidder/vendor companies have come to rely on PennBid as a source for public agency RFPs, RFQs, and quotes. By eliminating the cost of participation, PennBid lets bidders pursue more opportunities while promoting greater competition, inclusion, and better pricing.

Receive More Accurate & Complete Bids

PennBid puts powerful tools at your fingertips to ensure bidders adhere to key elements of the bidding process. This includes all required pricing information, along with documents to be included with submission. No more incomplete bids! Further, PennBid tracks all actions creating an auditable log of your entire bidding process.

Save on Advertising & Notifications

While most public agencies are still required to advertise their projects in local newspapers, PennBid has helped countless agencies drastically reduce the cost of advertising. By developing sample ad templates that include key elements required by most procurement codes, you can eliminate the added “fluff” and lower the cost of you advertisements.

PennBid Helps Public Agencies Eliminate Paperwork

Eliminate Bidding Paperwork

Printing & delivery of paper bids is both wasteful and error-prone. With electronic bid forms, changes can be made any time before bids are due, allowing bidders to easily address last-minute changes. For public agencies, this means instantly retrieve complete, submitted bids and view automated bid tabulations that can easily be analyzed and exported.

Powerful Bid Review, Analytic & Reporting Tools

Imagine opening your bids and instantly having an automatic tabulation of results. PennBid’s enhanced analytic tools and customizable reports allow you to quickly compare and evaluate bid submissions and many other performance metrics.

Tiered Access & Permission Roles

For larger organizations or those wishing to separate departmental access to specified bids, PennBid offers a Tiered Access structure that allows each agency to customize their organizational use of the Program. Further, with numerous permission roles ranging from “Read Only” to a “Controller” role that limits bid opening to dedicated personnel, PennBid can be configured to meet any organization’s needs.

Promote Bid Management Compliance

PennBid puts the tools at your fingertips to ensure bidders adhere to key elements of the bidding process, as required by your agency. This includes all required information and documents to be submitted. No more incomplete bids!

Carroll Engineering Corporation (CEC) has been utilizing PennBid since 2010 and has been well received by our clients. PennBid represented a major improvement to the bidding landscape by increasing project awareness and by facilitating communications during the bid process.
– Carroll Engineering Corp.
From an owner’s perspective, PennBid adds immense value: Speed, security of bids or proposals, immediate notifications or addenda, complex project awarding – all done with just a couple mouse clicks. You guys have literally thought of everything!
– City of Williamsport
PennBid is a win-win for all parties, saving us and our clients time and money.
– RETTEW
PennBid saves time, money, aggravation, gray hair, and trees. Any public agency that bids projects the “old” way does not know what they are missing.
– BCM Engineering
As a somewhat technologically challenged person, I have been thrilled by the willingness of the PennBid staff to work with me, teach me (sometimes twice), humor me and eventually provide me with exactly what I wanted. They really do go above and beyond what could normally be expected, and I am very grateful for that!
– Lower Saucon Authority
The work is done in a matter of minutes instead of days. All I can say is THANK YOU!
– Reading Area Community College
PennBid’ s customer service is astounding!
– City of Williamsport
Thank you for the little tweaks, fixes and add ons when I have a new item on PennBid! Much appreciated, and I notice them! It helps me remember to do them, next go-around.
– City of Williamsport
Just wanted to say that I am very impressed with the capabilities of PennBid. We’ve had an amazing response. My sincere thanks.
– Tinicum Township
PennBid makes bidding projects easy! Not only does it save time and money, but it also maximizes exposure to potential bidders and maintains records of all bid-related activity for you.
– Entech Engineering
PennBid simplifies & expedites the bidding process, and aggravation with answering bidders’ questions and issuing addenda is greatly reduced. Our clients love PennBid because it saves them money.
– McCormick Taylor, Inc.
PennBid is saving us, our bidders, and most importantly, our clients a great deal of time and money.
– Andersen Engineering
PennBid streamlines the bidding process for our clients’ capital projects allowing us to provide timely communications to clients & bidders through simultaneous notifications, helping us deliver efficient service to better manage the bidding process.
– RETTEW
PennBid has streamlined the entire bidding process into a user-friendly platform with an unbelievable staff that are always willing to assist.
– KLH Engineers, Inc.
Very smooth. I keep thinking I must be forgetting something, because of the absence of contractor & vendor calls, no project log to update, bid form math to tabulate, etc. Very great!
– Herbert, Rowland, & Grubic, Inc.
Using PennBid allows T&M and our clients to save precious time and money. When coupled with its ability to streamline communications, stable platform, and ease of use, PennBid is a real “win-win” for everyone.
– T&M Associates
We efficiently distributed documents electronically, easily responded to questions, and managed addenda. We look forward to introducing the Program to other clients.
– Pennoni Associates
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