PLANETBIDS PROCUREMENT FOR CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS
A BETTER WAY TO PROCURE FOR K-12 & HIGHER ED
Software that’s powerful, not overpowering, and built to simplify compliance, sourcing, and vendor management across California school districts and higher learning institutions.
TRUSTED BY SCHOOLS FOR SMARTER PROCUREMENT
SOLUTIONS FOR EVERY DISTRICT AND COLLEGE
Whether your schools are facing complex requisitions, complicated regulations, and high-profile projects, or you just need to manage a few solicitations a year, PlanetBids can help you build bids faster, communicate with vendors more effectively, and maintain better transparency with taxpayers.
Get Organized Align with strategic goals
Get started with clarity. PlanetBids provides tools to streamline requisition approvals and define your goals from day one.
Define your procurement needs, set timelines, and align your goals with organizational priorities to ensure a seamless process from the start.
Stay Compliant Manage certifications
Allow vendors to directly upload insurance and business certifications, and get automatic updates on expiring or invalid certificates. Improve disadvantaged business participation and avoid fines.
Save Time Streamline manual processes
Reduce time-intensive processes that burden your team and slow them down. Better manage resources by reducing redundancy and administrative tasks while creating comprehensive solicitations that reach more vendors.
Be Transparent Make data-driven decisions
Allow clear insight into your procurement processes and decisions, with easily accessible data storage for auditing, to ensure public trust. Ensure vendors understand and acknowledge every step of the bid process to eliminate no-bids and protests.
Buy Smarter Create better relationships
Easily build quick bid requests or RFPs with a fully adaptable specification library from other agencies. Improve relationships with suppliers and widen your vendor pool to get more competitive bids and ensure the best terms.
Get started with clarity. PlanetBids provides tools to streamline requisition approvals and define your goals from day one.
Define your procurement needs, set timelines, and align your goals with organizational priorities to ensure a seamless process from the start.
Allow vendors to directly upload insurance and business certifications, and get automatic updates on expiring or invalid certificates. Improve disadvantaged business participation and avoid fines.
Reduce time-intensive processes that burden your team and slow them down. Better manage resources by reducing redundancy and administrative tasks while creating comprehensive solicitations that reach more vendors.
Allow clear insight into your procurement processes and decisions, with easily accessible data storage for auditing, to ensure public trust. Ensure vendors understand and acknowledge every step of the bid process to eliminate no-bids and protests.
Easily build quick bid requests or RFPs with a fully adaptable specification library from other agencies. Improve relationships with suppliers and widen your vendor pool to get more competitive bids and ensure the best terms.
GET UP AND RUNNING FAST
PROUD PARTNER OF COLLEGEBUYS/SCHOOLBUYS
PlanetBids is a proud partner of CollegeBuys, offering exclusive pricing for higher education procurement teams in California. Now we’ve also joined SchoolBuys to extend that same exclusive pricing to K-12 schools. Easily implement PlanetBids to upgrade your procurement processes with our online bid and vendor management solutions, with state pre-approved contract agreements ready to sign.
STREAMLINE PURCHASING WITH PLANETBIDS
From department heads and principals to superintendents and curriculum directors, PlanetBids has the tools to make purchasing easier for all decision makers in your district.
PLANNING
Get Started
Get started with clarity. PlanetBids provides tools to streamline requisition approvals and define your goals from day one.
Define your procurement needs, set timelines, and align your purchasing with organizational priorities to ensure a seamless process from the start.
Sourcing
Find & Connect
Find and connect with the best vendors quickly and efficiently to expand your network, ensure regulatory compliance, and get more competitive bids.
PlanetBids automates outreach, manages vendor data, and simplifies sourcing.
Evaluation
Data-Driven Decisions
Make data-driven decisions with PlanetBids’ evaluation tools.
Customizable scoring tools and built-in audit trails let you collaborate and compare submissions, score vendor submissions fairly, and ensure transparency throughout the process.
Awarding
Finalize & Notify
Automate contract creation while staying compliant with PlanetBids.
Award contracts seamlessly with automated notifications, audit-ready workflows, and pre-built templates to finalize your decisions and notify vendors with confidence.
Vendor
management
Foster Collaboration
Ensure regulatory compliance, track vendor performance, and foster collaboration through PlanetBids’ centralized vendor management tools.
Meet project delivery expectations and provide better taxpayer value while building stronger, more beneficial supplier relationships.
AGENCY HUB
For districts and schools that want a powerful, modern solution, without the high cost and heavy customization.
Unlimited Bids
Project Evaluation
Bid Spec Library
Bid Management
Vendor Management
Vendor Portal
Contract Management
Emergency Operations
Document Management
Business Certification
Insurance Certification
ALL HUBS INCLUDE THE
PLANETBIDS PROMISE
EASY SETUP
No matter your size, we guarantee a fast implementation that won’t drag on.
Support Pros
Real procurement experts support our clients and vendors – always have and always will.
Low Cost
Our system is tailored to your needs, so you don’t pay for what you don’t use.
VALUES-Driven
We support our communities, our neighbors, and each other. And hey, we think we’re pretty cool.
Easy Configuration
Our system configures to you, not the other way around like our competitors.
GET IN TOUCH
“Our team can quickly find what is happening with any bid or contract. We live in this system!”
—Janice Unger,
East Side Union High School District (CA) Director of Bond Purchasing & Contracts