• Many clearinghouses for bids require a membership to see information of value. With this being the case, initial research was directed to find individual applications for smart city bidding.
•  USIgnite, shares free bid information, but it is sparse.
•  Bee Smart City shares RFPs (Request For Proposals) from around the world, and may be a good possible research path.

Saratoga Springs, NY

• The application may be viewed here.
• The application was very basic and offered little information that would lead us to our goal.

Dallas, TX

• The city of Dallas has a road map for their smart city goals. It gives insights to their goals and what is important to them. It does not share anything about how to bid. It may be viewed here.
• As this was slow process, and did not give much insight, we then redirected and looked for research.

Denver, Co

• Denver posted a RFP in 2018, but to access any details, the bidder must join BidNet.

Research

• GovWin+Onvia published an extensive research report that may be viewed here.
• They took a comprehensive look at nearly 300 different smart solutions being purchased, reflecting over 70,000 purchases in the last three years, with the majority (59%) coming from cities and a sizable 41% originating from counties. They profiled the various types of purchases involved, who is making them, which governments are out-ranking others, and what trends are leading in this space.
• They studied the cities with the most smart technology projects, and found the areas that have the most action, like smart transportation.
• They also share recent city and county awards in each sector.