How many portals and platforms carry state and local bids, how much of the volume the largest ones hold, and how many a vendor has to watch in each state.
2,951 sources
Distinct cleared sources, such as a city, a county or a state portal, that had at least one cleared bid due in the window.
Cohort: cleared US state and local bids.
42.5%
Cleared bids on the five named platforms with the most cleared bids, as a share of all cleared bids in the window. Sources on no platform we track and the shared Other portals label are not platforms, so they are left out of the five. 25.0% of cleared bids sat on no tracked platform.
Cohort: cleared US state and local bids.
12,373 sources
Active sources whose platform is generic. This does not show the buyer owns the site.
Cohort: whole hub, not a trend.
The largest platform group is Buyer and agency websites (no tracked platform), with 25.0% of cleared bids from 1,205 sources. 21 platform groups carry at least 150 cleared bids each.
A vendor who wants every cleared bid in Florida has to watch 233 sources. They carry 20 platform labels, and the label for sources on no platform we track stands for many separate sites. In Vermont it is 14 sources under 4 platform labels.
In 10 of 32 states the label with the most cleared bids is the one for sources on no platform we track, so their bids sit across many separate sites and not on one platform. Among the bids on platforms we do track, the largest platform holds 92.7% of them in Arizona (OpenGov Procurement) and 30.9% in New York (CivicPlus bid pages).
These counts cover cleared sources only. Hosts we do not republish from are left out, so they describe the cleared set and not every portal in the country.
Each bar is the share of cleared bids that sit on one platform group.
Bars run from 0% to 25%, just above the largest share.
| Platform group | Sources | Cleared bids | Share of cleared bids |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buyer and agency websites (no tracked platform) | 1,205 | 5,991 | 25.0% |
| OpenGov Procurement | 416 | 4,604 | 19.2% |
| CivicPlus bid pages | 629 | 2,275 | 9.5% |
| Other portals | 182 | 1,775 | 7.4% |
| South Carolina Business Opportunities | 22 | 1,548 | 6.5% |
| North Carolina eVP | 192 | 1,145 | 4.8% |
| Illinois BidBuy | 38 | 610 | 2.5% |
| Official procurement notice pages | 50 | 568 | 2.4% |
| OregonBuys | 2 | 509 | 2.1% |
| Florida Vendor Bid System | 42 | 485 | 2.0% |
| Michigan SIGMA Vendor Self-Service | 1 | 476 | 2.0% |
| Oracle Cloud supplier portals | 6 | 446 | 1.9% |
| Louisiana LaPAC | 44 | 383 | 1.6% |
| MissouriBUYS | 17 | 380 | 1.6% |
| Hawaii HANDS | 1 | 360 | 1.5% |
| Washington WEBS | 25 | 283 | 1.2% |
| Philadelphia PHLContracts | 1 | 278 | 1.2% |
| Colorado VSS | 1 | 275 | 1.1% |
| Kentucky eMARS | 1 | 221 | 0.9% |
| Pennsylvania ECMS | 1 | 178 | 0.7% |
| Public Purchase | 7 | 152 | 0.6% |
A platform group is our sorting of sources by the software that serves their bid pages. Buyer and agency websites (no tracked platform) means sources on none of the portal platforms we track. It does not show that the buyer owns the site. A group appears only when it has at least 150 cleared bids.
Each bar is the number of raw platform labels behind a state's cleared bids. The label for sources on no platform we track counts once, though it stands for many separate sites.
Bars run from 0 to 20, the largest count.
| State | Cleared bids | Sources | Platform labels | Bids on no tracked platform | Largest tracked platform | Its share of bids on tracked platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 2,451 | 233 | 20 | 13.1% | OpenGov Procurement | 52.0% |
| California | 1,860 | 249 | 18 | 31.1% | OpenGov Procurement | 74.3% |
| New Jersey | 722 | 107 | 17 | 22.3% | OpenGov Procurement | 38.9% |
| Texas | 1,312 | 254 | 15 | 55.5% | OpenGov Procurement | 40.4% |
| North Carolina | 1,616 | 278 | 12 | 17.0% | North Carolina eVP | 85.4% |
| Indiana | 346 | 27 | 12 | 19.1% | Indiana IDOA business opportunities | 47.1% |
| Washington | 1,121 | 110 | 11 | 16.2% | Official procurement notice pages | 43.7% |
| Ohio | 617 | 108 | 11 | 33.7% | OpenGov Procurement | 40.8% |
| Georgia | 528 | 80 | 11 | 56.2% | OpenGov Procurement | 45.5% |
| Missouri | 674 | 72 | 10 | 16.5% | MissouriBUYS | 67.5% |
| Virginia | 507 | 64 | 10 | 11.0% | OpenGov Procurement | 37.5% |
| Pennsylvania | 736 | 48 | 10 | 10.5% | Philadelphia PHLContracts | 42.2% |
| Tennessee | 448 | 48 | 10 | 28.3% | Oracle Cloud supplier portals | 34.6% |
| Illinois | 1,114 | 139 | 9 | 24.4% | Illinois BidBuy | 72.4% |
| Michigan | 894 | 86 | 8 | 35.7% | Michigan SIGMA Vendor Self-Service | 82.8% |
| New York | 570 | 77 | 8 | 50.5% | CivicPlus bid pages | 30.9% |
| Oregon | 656 | 53 | 8 | 11.1% | OregonBuys | 87.3% |
| Wisconsin | 167 | 37 | 8 | 31.7% | not published | not published |
| Massachusetts | 566 | 107 | 7 | 50.4% | CivicPlus bid pages | 53.7% |
| Arizona | 366 | 60 | 7 | 17.8% | OpenGov Procurement | 92.7% |
| Colorado | 437 | 42 | 7 | 12.4% | Colorado VSS | 71.8% |
| Maryland | 281 | 41 | 7 | 24.6% | OpenGov Procurement | 77.4% |
| Minnesota | 209 | 31 | 7 | 33.5% | not published | not published |
| Alabama | 203 | 40 | 6 | 66.5% | not published | not published |
| Connecticut | 228 | 51 | 5 | 24.6% | OpenGov Procurement | 54.7% |
| Hawaii | 571 | 33 | 5 | 2.5% | Hawaii HANDS | 64.6% |
| Kentucky | 325 | 24 | 5 | 12.9% | Kentucky eMARS | 78.1% |
| Maine | 175 | 24 | 5 | 27.4% | not published | not published |
| Louisiana | 531 | 63 | 4 | 21.8% | Louisiana LaPAC | 92.3% |
| South Carolina | 1,737 | 57 | 4 | 3.1% | South Carolina Business Opportunities | 92.0% |
| Alaska | 155 | 21 | 4 | 92.3% | not published | not published |
| Vermont | 184 | 14 | 4 | 11.4% | Vermont Business Registry bid board | 71.8% |
A state appears only when it has at least 150 cleared bids; 19 states with fewer are not published. A platform label here is the raw platform id recorded for a source, not a platform group, so one group in the table above can cover several labels. The label for sources on no platform we track counts once, though it stands for many separate sites. The number of sources is the better measure of how many places a vendor has to watch.
The last two columns leave out bids on no tracked platform. The share is taken among the bids that sit on a platform we track, and it is not published when a state has fewer than 150 of them. Unnamed platform is a platform the clearance rules do not allow us to name, or one that several unnamed platforms share.
The first three rows count every active source, cleared or not. The platform rows under them count part of that base, as the note below the table explains. It is a picture of one day, not a trend, because adding sources to the list would raise these counts without any change in the market.
| Platform | Active sources |
|---|---|
| All active sources | 26,285 |
| Active, leaving out resellers and aggregators | 25,047 |
| Active, on no platform we track | 12,373 (47.1%) |
| Buyer and agency websites (no tracked platform) | 12,296 |
| CivicPlus bid pages | 3,194 |
| Buyer websites on WordPress with bid pages | 1,609 |
| Georgia Procurement Registry | 1,366 |
| Other portals | 1,248 |
| North Carolina eVP | 916 |
| Official procurement notice pages | 591 |
| OpenGov Procurement | 493 |
| School district websites on Finalsite with bid lists | 416 |
| PlanetBids | 399 |
| Beacon | 287 |
| Public Purchase | 179 |
The platform rows are not a breakdown of the totals above. They leave out 1,238 resellers and aggregators and 1,468 further sources that are not listed by platform (sources whose terms limit how we use their data, that we have not cleared for republication, or whose robots.txt disallows their listing page). They show only the 12 largest platforms, which leaves 585 sources on smaller platforms unshown. They do not sum to the total. The row for Buyer and agency websites (no tracked platform) is 12,296, not 12,373, because the 12,373 counts every active source in that group, and 77 of them are resellers or are not listed by platform.
| Step | Rows left out | Rows remaining |
|---|---|---|
| Rows in the snapshot window | 103,851 | |
| Marked as a duplicate of another bid | 2,299 | 101,552 |
| No record of which source it came from | 101 | 101,451 |
| From a reseller or aggregator | 28,233 | 73,218 |
| From a federal or foreign notice feed | 5,549 | 67,669 |
| From a portal whose terms limit how its data is used | 692 | 66,977 |
| Behind a login | 5 | 66,972 |
| From a host not cleared for republication | 10,823 | 56,149 |
| Listing page not permitted by robots.txt | 1,732 | 54,417 |
| Listing page robots.txt could not be checked | 9,089 | 45,328 |
| Posting page not permitted by robots.txt | 2,204 | 43,124 |
| Posting page robots.txt could not be checked | 3,005 | 40,119 |
| Country not verified as the United States | 11,687 | 28,432 |
| A repeat capture of a posting already counted | 4,459 | 23,973 |
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Cite as: VelocityBids, Public Bid Access Observatory, release 2026-11-01-r2, November 1, 2026. https://www.velocitybids.ai/data/portal-fragmentation
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75.8% of 7,453 open bids from cleared sources had a document we downloaded, as of November 1, 2026.
The median bid was first seen 5.2 days after posting, across 8,502 bids due August 3 to November 1, 2026 with a posting date more than a day before first sighting.
The median cleared bid gave 23.6 days from posting to due date, across 13,116 bids due August 3 to November 1, 2026.