City of Miramar

Profile

Agency: City of Miramar, FL
Population: 80,000
Employees: 850
Onvia Member Since: August 2000
Buyers Using Onvia: 84
Annual Budget: 66 Million
Bid Volume (Bids/Quotes): 40 Bids, 150 Quotes per year

Agency Challenges

The City of Miramar's Procurement Division is responsible for the procurement of goods and services in accordance with the City's Code, Broward County Code, Florida State Statutes, and federal law. The Procurement Division is dedicated to the goals of competition and fairness. The Division's goal is to ensure that the Citizens of Miramar receive the optimum value for every expenditure. Toward that goal, all vendors are encouraged to participate in doing business with the City of Miramar. It takes a great deal of time to recruit and train vendors to do business with the City.

Solutions Provided by DemandStar

Onvia DemandStar provides user training to vendors and recruits new vendors for the City of Miramar through direct mail campaigns.

The City utilizes demandstar.com for their vendor registration and vendor database system which categorizes each vendor by commodity codes for the specific goods or services offered by the vendor. Businesses who have subscribed to the vendor list are notified by fax or e-mail whenever a formal Solicitation has been issued for the commodity or service offered by the vendor.

Summary

Because each department has access to the Onvia DemandStar Bid Library, the need for duplicate efforts by different departments is eliminated.