Procurement Bids in Delaware

There are 156 open procurement opportunities in Delaware from 5 state, county, city, school, hospital, and university agencies as of August 8, 2026. 5 of them close within the next seven days.

The top agencies posting bids in Delaware right now are State of Delaware, Federal Government. Each maintains its own vendor portal and posting schedule.

Register on Delaware State Bid Calendar (https://bids.delaware.gov/) for state-level opportunities. Vendor registration through Office of Management and Budget; agency-specific registrations also required. For federal contracts, register on SAM.gov (free; assigns a UEI). For local agencies, registration is on the platform they use — Bonfire, PlanetBids, BidNet Direct, DemandStar — typically one registration per platform covers all agencies using it.

The most-active industries in Delaware government procurement right now are Healthcare, Education, Construction. Browse each by industry to see current opportunities filtered to Delaware.

Delaware operates the following preference and set-aside programs: Delaware Office of Supplier Diversity (DOSD) certifications. Each has its own certification process; check the state procurement office for eligibility details.

Delaware procurement is governed by 29 Delaware Code §6901 et seq.. This includes bid solicitation, contract award, and vendor protest procedures. The state procurement office publishes implementing regulations and manuals.

Save a search on ProcureTap filtered to Delaware to receive email alerts when new bids match your criteria. You can also subscribe to the state's official portal notifications. Larger agencies (state DOT, department of general services) publish quarterly forecasts of upcoming solicitations.

Every six hours. ProcureTap re-scrapes the Delaware state procurement portal plus every county, city, school district, hospital, and university procurement system in the state on a six-hour cadence, so new postings appear here within hours of being published.

Delaware generally does not restrict bidding to in-state vendors, but many agencies offer local-preference points or ties-broken-in-favor-of-local scoring, and some contracts under specific dollar thresholds may be limited to registered Delaware vendors or certified Delaware small businesses. Read each solicitation's evaluation criteria carefully.