Procurement Department
Dear Valued Vendors! The City has transitioned to a new eProcurement solution (OpenGov) for publishing solicitations and receiving vendor responses. Register your account here to begin receiving email notifications for the City’s Bid/RFP opportunities. Registration is 100% free for vendors.
The City of Plant City Procurement Department, by City Charter, Section 2-140 of the City Code and Commission Approval, consists of individuals whose purpose is to streamline and economize the City's Procurement Process, through a centralized procurement function.
The City of Plant City Procurement Department has adopted and will abide by the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing Code of Ethics.
As part of a continuous improvement process, the City's Procurement Department needs your feedback. If you have a moment, please take our "How Are We Doing?" Survey. The survey includes a comment section for making suggestions or logging a complaint. If you would like the Procurement Director to contact you, please leave your contact information in that comment section.
- How to Do Business with the City (PDF)
Mission
The mission of the Procurement Department is compliance with regulatory guidelines and internal control procedures, to conduct business with the highest level of customer service, ethical standards, fairness, and transparency, while welcoming qualified, responsible, and diverse vendors.
Vision
The Department strives to partner with Vendors and City departments to secure quality goods and services in a timely manner and at a reasonable cost while ensuring that all purchasing actions are conducted fairly and impartially.
Values
The Department believes that these values are essential to our success:
- Customer Care: We believe a strong commitment to quality service to our customers is vital for our success.
- Providing accurate and timely information: We believe that timely and accurate information is crucial to business decisions within the City and the business community.
- Building effective partnerships: We believe that our strength lies in our professional relationships and that solid partnerships between the City and the business community are based upon us understanding our customer’s business needs and planning, implementing and managing the best contracts. We embrace the highest ethical standards of our profession and model ethical conduct to our customers, our colleagues and our peers.
- Innovation: We value creativity and innovation in developing and providing successful solutions. We are committed to seeking more efficient and effective ways of conducting our business
- Open access to procurement opportunities and information: We value our business partners and believe in the practice of free and open competition. We are committed to ensure a fair, non-discriminatory and complete process based on the highest ethical standards in our profession.
The City of Plant City has partnered with OpenGov and is excited to announce our transition from a paper-based bid solicitation process to a fully automated, web-based electronic bidding and vendor management system. Below are the bids and proposals currently being solicited and the corresponding closing dates for each. Our new e-Procurement Portal will allow interested parties to do the following:
- Register to bid and receive notifications of future opportunities in the e-Procurement Portal by selecting Subscribe to create an account.
- Follow updates to existing solicitations by finding the solicitation and clicking the Follow button. This will allow all interested parties to receive amendments and addenda automatically.
- Submit questions and receive answers for open solicitations.
- Guide vendors through the process of responding electronically to RFPs, bids, etc. to ensure submissions have been accurately completed.
- Ultimately, be your one location for all bid opportunities issued by the City.
To get started, click here to sign up. You’ll receive an email to activate your account. For more information about how to register, please see our help file here. There is no cost to register with OpenGov.
City Of Plant City - Standard Terms and Conditions Please read through the Purchase Order Terms and Conditions (PDF).
