Marketing to State and Municipal Government Agencies

Use the dropdown menu on the left to search through more than 1000 purchasing sites where you can find business opportunities with state and local government agencies or try our comprehensive links of city, town and county sites.  If you still cannot find the municipality that you are looking for in our directories try http://officialcitysites.org/ or Piper Resources 

Helpful Links

If you are new to doing business with the government visit contractors-license.org and make sure you have met the licensing requirments for your line of work before submitting proposals to government agencies. 

A building permit for every place - Permit Place has links to most building
permits. If you need a residential or commercial building permit, just find
your city and click the link. http://www.permitplace.com

Primary and Secondary Education

The public schools are another profitable market for building your business.  Some School Districts have control over purchasing, from soup to nuts, while others are restricted by Municipal, County and State control over procurement.

Helpful Links

International Registry of Schools - This site maintains an enormous list of public and private school links.
American School Directory- This web site provides school information on 108,000 K-12 schools in America.

Private K-12
Small private schools are often overlooked or ignored since they are mostly small in terms of their buying power and dispersed geographically.  However, collectively these schools purchase billions of dollars worth of products and you can avoid elaborate procurement laws and red tape that is part of the public sector procurement process. Independent Private Schools have organizations to leverage their mass purchasing power. Here are a few examples:

The National Association of Independent Schools represents over 1,100 independent schools and associations in the United States and abroad.   This site has a searchable database of information including links to official web sites of its 1100 member schools.   

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
provides database list of 74 of it's Solomon Schechter Day Schools scattered throughout the world.

The Association of Boarding Schools - Browse school and contact information on 283 boarding schools in the U.S., Canada, and Overseas.

Marketing to Colleges and Universities             

This site provides links to the purchasing departments of colleges and universities, both private and public, throughout the United States.  We have also provided you with a list of links to the home pages of several thousand Colleges, Universities and  Community Colleges.

We provide links to these institution's facility management and construction departments, where you can find information on current and planned capital improvements.  In fact most universities publish their 5-year master plans at these sites.  Some institutions post bid and request for proposal opportunities.