ONLINE BIDDING
City of College Station solicitations are posted to the
Brazos Valley Online e-Marketplace online bidding portal. Some solicitations, but not all, are conducive to receipt of response packages via the online bidding portal. Uploaded responses are encrypted and remain effectively locked until the due date and time. To participate in an active solicitation process, vendors must be registered with the online bidding portal. Please note that the City of College Station is not responsible for high internet traffic/demand at or near the time the response packages are due and that vendors submitting their response package during peak traffic times risk their submittal not being received by the due date and time.
Solicitation responses will not be accepted once the specified due date and time has passed.
Anyone interested in viewing
closed solicitations and related tabulations, as well as
award documents posted on the online bidding portal, may do so without registering for login credentials.
HELPFUL HINTS FOR REGISTERED VENDORS
- Periodically review your Company Profile to ensure the information is accurate. Your commodity category selections will help determine the solicitation notification you receive.
- Submit your solicitation response early! Submitting early gives you time to correct mistakes in your response or to deal with Internet/computer issues.
- Whitelist the @customer.ionwave.net email domain to ensure you receive email from the online bidding portal.
- Utilize the Help files for tutorials and instructions on how to use the online bidding portal. The link to the Help files is located on the online bidding portal dashboard under Quick Links.