Procurement Bids in Pennsylvania

There are 479 open procurement opportunities in Pennsylvania from 13 state, county, city, school, hospital, and university agencies as of July 14, 2026. 20 of them close within the next seven days.

The top agencies posting bids in Pennsylvania right now are Pennsylvania eMarketplace, Federal Government, Pennsylvania eProcurement, Luzerne County. Each maintains its own vendor portal and posting schedule.

Register on Pennsylvania eMarketplace (https://www.emarketplace.state.pa.us/) for state-level opportunities. Register on eMarketplace for Pennsylvania state procurement. SAP Ariba is used for procurement portal interactions. 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 Pennsylvania government procurement right now are Supplies & Equipment, Construction, Facilities & Maintenance. Browse each by industry to see current opportunities filtered to Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania operates the following preference and set-aside programs: Pennsylvania Small Diverse Business (SDB), Pennsylvania Veteran Business Enterprise (VBE). Each has its own certification process; check the state procurement office for eligibility details.

Pennsylvania procurement is governed by Pennsylvania Commonwealth Procurement Code (62 Pa.C.S.). 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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania 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.

Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania vendors or certified Pennsylvania small businesses. Read each solicitation's evaluation criteria carefully.

Register on Pennsylvania eMarketplace (emarketplace.state.pa.us) — the Commonwealth's SAP Ariba-based procurement platform. Registration is free and covers most executive-agency solicitations. SDB (Small Diverse Business) and VBE certification for participation goals is through the Bureau of Diversity, Inclusion, and Small Business Opportunities (BDISBO) at dgs.pa.gov/bdisbo. PennDOT construction bidders need additional Prequalification of Bidders certification. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and county governments require separate registrations on their own platforms.

The SDB program targets 6% Commonwealth spending on certified diverse-owned businesses (minority-, women-, disabled-, LGBT-, disadvantaged-owned). Certification is through BDISBO at dgs.pa.gov/bdisbo. Prime contractors on Commonwealth contracts must submit a Diverse Business Utilization Plan or file a good-faith-effort waiver. Veteran Business Enterprise (VBE) is a separate certification with its own 6% goal. Non-compliance can reduce evaluation scores.

PennDOT publishes a monthly letting schedule through ECMS (Engineering and Construction Management System). Bidders must complete PennDOT Prequalification of Bidders before bidding projects over specified financial thresholds. Bids are sealed unit-price on a bill of quantities; award goes to the lowest responsive pre-qualified bidder. Federal-aid projects add Davis-Bacon wages, Buy America iron/steel (49 CFR 661), and DBE subcontracting goals typically 8–15%.

The Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act requires state and local public-works contracts over $25,000 to pay Pennsylvania Prevailing Wages issued by the Department of Labor and Industry. Wage schedules are county-specific and updated quarterly. Enforcement is active — non-compliance can trigger debarment. Wages typically run 10–20% above federal Davis-Bacon rates in Pennsylvania. Federal Davis-Bacon applies to federal-aid highway and transit work regardless of state prevailing wage.

Philadelphia procurement runs through the Office of Procurement Administration (OPA) and PHLContracts. The City maintains separate MBE/WBE/DBE certification, a Philadelphia-based business preference on many contracts, and complex prime-contractor and neighborhood-preference rules. School District of Philadelphia procurement runs separately through the SDP purchasing office. Philadelphia work often carries additional compliance layers not found in Commonwealth procurement.

The Steel Products Procurement Act (73 P.S. §1881 et seq.) requires steel used on Pennsylvania public works to be produced in the United States. The Act includes a "PA-produced steel" preference in some circumstances. Exceptions exist for specialty steel not commercially available domestically and when non-U.S. steel is 20% cheaper. Federal Buy America iron/steel rules apply separately to federal-aid transportation projects.

ProcureTap re-scrapes Pennsylvania eMarketplace, PennDOT ECMS, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Philadelphia PHLContracts, Pittsburgh procurement, and every Pennsylvania county, city, school district, hospital, and university procurement system on a 6-hour cadence. New Pennsylvania bids appear within hours of publication.