RAPID CITY, SD—The City of Rapid City is transitioning to an electronic bidding platform as part of its procurement process. The upgrade will be implemented by January 1 and will impact the way the City manages its bids and proposals with contractors, consultants, vendors and other community partners.
The City of Rapid City is contracting with PlanetBids to modernize its procurement operations. The agreement, the first for PlanetBids in South Dakota, will cover the City’s entire procurement process from requests and solicitation creation to evaluations and bid awards. Officials indicate the new procurement format will move the City of Rapid City from a fully manual procurement process to a centralized integrated platform.
“The new electronic bidding platform will be a major upgrade and improvement in how the City does its procurement business,” said City Public Works Administrative Operations Manager Shannon Truax. “Our current process, which has been in place for many years, still relies heavily on manual processes and data entry, emails, paper documents, and manually tracking information through several different steps. That takes time, creates duplicate work, and increases the opportunity for errors. It can also make the process more complicated than it needs to be for businesses that want to work with the City.”…