Tech providers are reporting recent growth for digital procurement services at state and local levels. e-bidding procurement platform for state and local governments DemandStar, for example, recently said it had gained 200 new clients in the first half of this year, which already equals the number of agencies the company added in all of 2020.
The growth in digital government procurement comes as the business-to-business tech world continues to make hard progress in moving past paper-based bids, invoicing and similar systems — a push made possible by the increasing involvement of digitally comfortable millennial-age professionals in B2B commerce, among other factors, according to studies, says govtech.com
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Other factors that will continue to boost digital take-up include increasing pressure to award more contracts to minority- and women-owned firms, along with efforts to source supplies from smaller and local businesses because a digital processes can help governments achieve those goals more quickly.