OhioBuys Supplier Update

Office of Procurement Services sent this bulletin at 02/15/2023 01:00 PM EST

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What are you waiting for? The time is now to be a part of OhioBuys and do business with the State of Ohio.

With more than 50 state agencies, boards, and commissions now onboarded (and more to come), OhioBuys also offers new opportunities for doing business with the State in a single platform. In January, there were nearly 480 solicitations conducted in OhioBuys. Month over month, the number of solicitations conducted in OhioBuys continues to grow!

Don’t miss out!

Make sure your company is properly set up in OhioBuys to ensure you can receive notifications about and respond to relevant solicitations. To become set up correctly, we recommend watching this 24-minute video with this presentation deck for reference: OhioBuys Supplier Training Webinar Deck. These materials cover the following topics:

Getting started in OhioBuys
How to manage your profile, including managing contacts and selecting commodities
Responding to Solicitations
Reviewing and Acknowledging Purchase Orders
Listing your organization's goods and/or services as part of a catalog

If your company is not set up as shown above, you will not  receive notices about opportunities to do business with the State and may not be prepared to submit responses to solicitations when responses are due. Agencies also receive reporting on which suppliers are active in OhioBuys.   

More information on becoming an OhioBuys bidder or supplier is available on the OhioBuys website.

What’s Your Status?

In addition, users should provide their company's demographic information to aid the agencies with the information needed for the Controlling Board submissions and approvals. This can be completed in the Addition Information Tab.

UPCOMING WEBINARS

We have scheduled new supplier webinar trainings through March 24, 2023. Our next webinar will be THIS FRIDAY, February 17, 2023, at 10:00 AM. This webinar will cover Access and Responding to Solicitations in OhioBuys.

To register for either of these webinars, go to the Webinar Training section on the OhioBuys website. 

February
Friday, February 17
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Topic: Access and Responding to Solicitations

March
Friday, March 24
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Topic: Access and Responding to Solicitations

Friday, March 24
1:00 PM-2:00 PM
Topic: Revenue Share Reporting

Thank you for partnering with us on this journey.

The OhioBuys Team

Mike DeWine, Governor
Jon Husted, Lt. Governor
Kathleen C. Madden, Director

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