Procurement Bids in Virginia

There are 979 open procurement opportunities in Virginia from 15 state, county, city, school, hospital, and university agencies as of July 14, 2026. 2 of them close within the next seven days.

The top agencies posting bids in Virginia right now are City of Richmond, VA, Federal Government, Virginia Tech, University of Virginia, Loudoun County. Each maintains its own vendor portal and posting schedule.

Register on Virginia eVA (https://eva.virginia.gov/) for state-level opportunities. Register on eVA for State of Virginia procurement opportunities. eVA registration is mandatory for vendors selling to the Commonwealth. 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 Virginia government procurement right now are Supplies & Equipment, Construction, Professional Services. Browse each by industry to see current opportunities filtered to Virginia.

Virginia operates the following preference and set-aside programs: Virginia Small Business Enterprise (SBE), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDV), Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), Women-Owned Business (WBE), Micro Business. Each has its own certification process; check the state procurement office for eligibility details.

Virginia procurement is governed by Virginia Public Procurement Act (Code of Virginia §2.2-4300 et seq.). 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 Virginia 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 Virginia 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.

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

Register on eVA (eva.virginia.gov) — mandatory for any vendor selling to the Commonwealth of Virginia. eVA registration is not optional; there is no alternative pathway. eVA fees apply based on total Commonwealth business volume. For SWaM certification (Small, Women-, or Minority-Owned Business), apply through the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity at sbsd.virginia.gov. Fairfax County, Loudoun County, and other Northern Virginia local governments require separate registrations on their own platforms.

SWaM is Virginia's Small, Women, and Minority-Owned Business program, with a 42% Commonwealth spending target — the highest state-level participation goal in the US. Certifications include Small Business (SB), Micro Business, Women-Owned (WBE), Minority-Owned (MBE), and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned (SDV) — issued by SBSD. Prime contractors on Commonwealth contracts must submit SWaM Utilization Plans; non-compliance materially reduces evaluation scores. The Commonwealth publishes annual utilization reports.

The Virginia Department of Transportation publishes lettings through the VDOT Business Portal (vabid.vdot.virginia.gov). Bidders must complete VDOT Prequalification before bidding projects over $250,000. Bids are sealed unit-price on a bill of quantities. Federal-aid projects carry Davis-Bacon wages, Buy America iron/steel (49 CFR 661), and DBE subcontracting goals typically 8–12%. VDOT also runs the Public-Private Transportation Act (PPTA) program for large P3 concession deals.

No. Virginia does not require state prevailing wages on public works projects. Federal Davis-Bacon rates still apply on federal-aid highway, transit, and infrastructure work. This distinguishes Virginia from Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and other Mid-Atlantic states with active state prevailing-wage regimes.

Fairfax County, Loudoun County, Prince William County, Arlington County, and Alexandria each run separate procurement systems. Fairfax County (population 1.15M) and Fairfax County Public Schools (170K students) together have among the largest local procurement pipelines in the country. Common platforms include Bonfire, IonWave, and county-specific systems. Northern Virginia procurement is heavily IT- and security-oriented, reflecting proximity to federal buyers.

MWAA operates Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) and Reagan National Airport (DCA) under a compact between Virginia, D.C., and the federal government. MWAA runs its own procurement system separate from eVA and has significant capital procurement activity — terminal expansion, security systems, ground transportation, concessions. Federal-aid AIP grants add Buy America and DBE requirements. MWAA procurement is a distinct market from Virginia state procurement.

ProcureTap re-scrapes eVA, VDOT Business Portal, VITA solicitations, MWAA, Fairfax County, Fairfax County Public Schools, Loudoun County, Prince William County, Arlington, Alexandria, and every Virginia county, city, school district, hospital, and university procurement system on a 6-hour cadence. New bids appear within hours of publication.