The Village of Stockbridge announced today that it has joined the MITN Purchasing Group, a regional purchasing group that helps local governments post, distribute, and manage RFPs, quotes, addendums, and awards online. Bidnet Direct’s MITN Purchasing Group provides notification to registered vendors of new relevant solicitations and any addenda or award information from over 267 participating agencies from across Michigan. All potential Village of Stockbridge vendors are encouraged to register online with www.bidnetdirect.com/mitn/villageofstockbridge to access upcoming solicitations.
The Village of Stockbridge joined the purchasing group in July 2022. In joining, the Village of Stockbridge has become the 267th participating local government agency utilizing the system to streamline the purchasing process. The MITN Purchasing Group is a single online location for managing sourcing information, and activities which provides local Michigan government agencies a method to minimize costs and time delays associated with the procurement process. In joining, the Village of Stockbridge looks to save time, increase competition, and achieve cost savings over the traditional paper-based bid process.
The Village of Stockbridge now has access to an extensive vendor pool, thereby enhancing competition without increasing distribution costs. In addition to the existing vendors on the MITN Purchasing Group, all vendors looking to respond to bids with local government agencies can register online at: www.bidnetdirect.com/mitn/villageofstockbridge
The Village of Stockbridge invites all current vendors not already registered on the purchasing group to do so today. Vendor registration is easy and takes only a few minutes online.
In addition, the MITN Purchasing Group offers a value-added service to notify vendors of new bids targeted to their industry, all addenda associated with those bids and advance notice of term contract expiration. A robust NIGP code category list allows vendors registering to find the correct codes and receive matched bids.
“By using the MITN Purchasing Group, our valued vendors can now access not only our open bids, but those from other municipalities, counties and school districts throughout the state. In addition to the time savings, we anticipate our vendors will also benefit from registering in one location for all local bid opportunities”, stated Darwin McCleary, Village Manager.
Bidnet Direct’s vendor support team is available to answer any questions regarding the registration process or the bid system at 800-835-4603 option 2.
Other local Michigan government agencies looking to switch from a manual bid process, please contact the MITN Purchasing Group for a demonstration of the no-cost sourcing solution.
About the Village of Stockbridge:
Stockbridge is a village in Ingham County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located within Stockbridge Township about 36 miles (58 km) southeast from downtown Lansing. The village’s population is 1,244 as of the 2020 census.
