Articles from Civic Marketplace

Today, the East Texas Council of Governments (ETCOG), announced the award of Civic Marketplace as the technology platform for COGWORKS – its cooperative purchasing arm. The partnership will leverage cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence to support regional purchasing for rural communities, school districts, and local governments across the East Texas region, state, and nationwide.

Civic Marketplace, the rapidly emerging platform redefining how local governments discover and procure innovative solutions, today announced a formal partnership with CivStart Ventures, a Washington, D.C.-based leading govtech accelerator for startups serving the $4 trillion state, local and education space. CivStart Ventures is the newest govtech organization from the founders of CivStart. Together, the organizations aim to create a faster, safer, and more transparent pathway for government agencies to procure innovative products and services from innovative and mission-driven organizations.

Edge Public, in partnership with Batteries Plus – the nation’s leading provider of batteries, lighting, and mobile device repair services – has today announced a new national supplier agreement serving public agencies nationwide.

TXShare – the cooperative purchasing program of the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) – has awarded the most comprehensive, competitively bid, nationally accessible AI contracts designed for local government use, in collaboration with Civic Marketplace and the Alliance for Innovation. For the first time in cooperative purchasing history, government agencies can rapidly deploy vetted, competitively awarded AI solutions and services, covering more than 70 individual use cases, without the need for new RFPs and with built-in options for supporting small and local companies.

Civic Marketplace and the Alliance for Innovation proudly announce that Ron Holifield, founder and longtime public service leader, has been named a Distinguished Member of the Texas City Management Association (TCMA), a rare and prestigious honor recognizing extraordinary contributions to the council-manager form of government and the profession of city management.

Civic Marketplace, the leading platform for local government purchasing, today is announcing a landmark partnership with Edge Public, a subsidiary of Buyers Edge Platform, the largest group purchasing organization (GPO) in the U.S., to unlock faster, smarter, and fully compliant procurement pathways for public agencies nationwide, with the Alliance for Innovation (AFI) Cooperative purchasing program as the lead agency.