Public servants can now purchase more efficiently with access to thousands of contracts on Pavilion from the OpenGov community. OpenGov is the first eProcurement solution to give its customers the option to automatically publish its public contracts to Pavilion, the leading search platform across the largest network of cooperative and piggybackable contracts for the public sector. This partnership improves the experience of entities who use both the OpenGov Procurement Suite and Pavilion, while helping the broader public procurement community gain access to more available contracts and suppliers.
Thousands of OpenGov contracts now searchable through Pavilion
Since 2022, OpenGov and Pavilion have partnered to provide OpenGov users with the ability to search Pavilion’s cooperative contracts directly from within the OpenGov Procurement Suite experience. This next stage of the partnership makes public contracts from OpenGov customers searchable on Pavilion and automatically updates changes to those contracts.
A leading group of OpenGov customers has already published thousands of contracts on Pavilion.When verified public entities search for contracts on Pavilion, these contracts will now show up in relevant search results.
“We’re excited that new contracts we create and changes we make in OpenGov will automatically show in Pavilion. The contracts we’ve found on Pavilion have helped our staff save time, so it’s great to be able to contribute our contracts so easily,” says Carrie Mathes, Chief Procurement Officer of Orange County, FL.
Supporting the broader public procurement community
The addition of public contracts from the OpenGov Procurement Suite to Pavilion expands the repository of contracts public entities can piggyback from. Piggybacking on a competitively solicited contract from a peer public entity allows public entities to accelerate purchasing timelines by months and reduces the administrative costs of running a new solicitation, which can be more than $80,000 for some entities. The contracts can also provide access to more competitive pricing and a broader supply of businesses to work with.
Already, 2,500+ public entities are searching Pavilion’s repository of 100,000+ contracts every month to find and use contracts from national and regional cooperatives, states, and local entities. On average, Pavilion saves users 5-6 hours each month.
Driving operational excellence and local economic development
Beyond supporting the broader community, the addition of OpenGov public contracts to Pavilion allows entities who have contributed to:
- Save staff time and expand team capacity: OpenGov customers can search Pavilion’s repository of contracts and their own at the same time, which helps ensure that their staff does not miss existing contracts that they can potentially use. Furthermore, by making their public contracts easier to access, OpenGov customers can reduce time spent responding to public records requests from other entities, suppliers, and the general public.
- Promote local economic development. OpenGov customers with contracts on Pavilion can help their awarded suppliers generate more business from their existing contracts. “Adding contracts to Pavilion allows us to give our local and diverse businesses more visibility and help them reach public entities across the country,” said Maria Agrusa, County Procurement Officer of Orange County, CA. “Pavilion helps us promote these businesses at a much larger scale.”
"We are creating more strategic procurement outcomes by automating task work and empowering greater community collaboration. With this new integration, customers can effortlessly share their public contracts with other public entities. All the hard work of our public procurement professionals to build compliant contract vehicles can now be leveraged across the entire community," said Thao Jones-Hill, Product Owner at OpenGov.
“Public entities today are looking to do more with less, and our expanded partnership with OpenGov creates access to more contracts that public entities can leverage. It’s important for us to empower the public servants with tools to help them purchase faster and more efficiently so that they can deliver better outcomes for their communities,” said Mariel Reed, founder and CEO of Pavilion.
For OpenGov customers interested in publishing contracts to Pavilion, contact Peter Gorman, pgorman@opengov.com for more information.
