Procurement Bids in Michigan

There are 166 open procurement opportunities in Michigan from 9 state, county, city, school, hospital, and university agencies as of July 14, 2026. 1 of them close within the next seven days.

The top agencies posting bids in Michigan right now are Federal Government, Genesee County, University of Michigan, City of Midland. Each maintains its own vendor portal and posting schedule.

Register on Michigan SIGMA Vendor Self Service (VSS) (https://sigma.michigan.gov/vss) for state-level opportunities. Register through SIGMA Vendor Self Service to bid on Michigan state contracts. For federal contracts, register on SAM.gov (free; assigns a UEI). For local agencies, registration is on the platform they use — Bonfire, PlanetBids, BidNet Direct, DemandStar — typically one registration per platform covers all agencies using it.

The most-active industries in Michigan government procurement right now are Professional Services, Information Technology, Education. Browse each by industry to see current opportunities filtered to Michigan.

Michigan operates the following preference and set-aside programs: Michigan Minority-Owned Business Enterprise certifications, State Small Business Set-Aside. Each has its own certification process; check the state procurement office for eligibility details.

Michigan procurement is governed by Michigan Compiled Laws §18.1101 et seq. (Management and Budget Act). This includes bid solicitation, contract award, and vendor protest procedures. The state procurement office publishes implementing regulations and manuals.

Save a search on ProcureTap filtered to Michigan to receive email alerts when new bids match your criteria. You can also subscribe to the state's official portal notifications. Larger agencies (state DOT, department of general services) publish quarterly forecasts of upcoming solicitations.

Every six hours. ProcureTap re-scrapes the Michigan state procurement portal plus every county, city, school district, hospital, and university procurement system in the state on a six-hour cadence, so new postings appear here within hours of being published.

Michigan generally does not restrict bidding to in-state vendors, but many agencies offer local-preference points or ties-broken-in-favor-of-local scoring, and some contracts under specific dollar thresholds may be limited to registered Michigan vendors or certified Michigan small businesses. Read each solicitation's evaluation criteria carefully.

Register on SIGMA Vendor Self Service (sigma.michigan.gov) — a single registration covers every DTMB-managed state agency. Registration is free and includes notification subscription for solicitations that match your industry codes. MDOT construction bidders need additional prequalification through the MDOT Contractor Prequalification system before bidding projects over $150,000. For local governments (Detroit, Wayne County, etc.) register separately on each entity's procurement platform.

No, not for state-funded work. Michigan's Prevailing Wage Act was repealed in 2018. State-funded construction contracts do not carry a state prevailing-wage schedule, which distinguishes Michigan from Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Federal-aid highway and transit projects still require Davis-Bacon rates through the federal statute. Some local governments (Detroit, Wayne County) have independently adopted local prevailing-wage ordinances that apply within their jurisdictions.

Michigan MBE certification is issued through the Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council (MMSDC), a private affiliate of the National Minority Supplier Development Council. State agencies use MMSDC-certified MBEs to meet participation goals on specific contracts, though Michigan does not have a statewide fixed percentage goal. WBE certification is through the Great Lakes Women's Business Council. Federal DBE certification for transportation contracts flows through the MDOT DBE program.

The Michigan Department of Transportation publishes an approximately monthly letting schedule through the MDOT Construction Contracts portal. Bidders must complete MDOT Contractor Prequalification before bidding projects over $150,000. Bids are sealed unit-price on a bill of quantities; award goes to the lowest responsive pre-qualified bidder. Federal-aid projects carry Davis-Bacon wages, Buy America iron/steel (49 CFR 661), and DBE subcontracting goals typically 8–15%.

Rebuilding Michigan is a $3.5B bonding program approved in 2020 to accelerate highway and bridge reconstruction. It carries no federal-aid restrictions (state-funded), so bidders face no Davis-Bacon wages, no Buy America, and no DBE goals — but also no federal reimbursement. MDOT lettings for Rebuilding Michigan projects are typically 20–40% larger than baseline federal-aid lettings. Watch MDOT monthly lettings and the MDOT construction dashboard for active projects.

Michigan has 883 school districts. Districts issue their own RFPs for food services, transportation, construction, IT, and curriculum. Most use Bonfire, PlanetBids, or Munetrix. Detroit Public Schools Community District runs a fully independent procurement operation. City of Detroit uses its own portal at detroitmi.gov with Detroit-Based Business preference. Wayne, Oakland, and Kent County procurement each runs separately on Bonfire or Munetrix. Michigan State University and University of Michigan procurement run on separate university systems (SciQuest/Jaggaer).

ProcureTap re-scrapes SIGMA VSS, MDOT construction lettings, Detroit procurement, Wayne County, Oakland County, Kent County, Michigan universities, and every county, city, and school district procurement system in Michigan on a 6-hour cadence. New postings appear within hours.