Procurement Bids in District of Columbia

There are 0 open procurement opportunities in District of Columbia from 0 state, county, city, school, hospital, and university agencies as of November 9, 2026.

The District of Columbia state procurement office plus dozens of counties, cities, school districts, hospitals, and universities post bids. ProcureTap aggregates all of them.

Register on DC Office of Contracting and Procurement (https://ocp.dc.gov/) for state-level opportunities. Register through DC OCP for District procurement opportunities. 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.

District of Columbia agencies post bids across construction, IT, healthcare, professional services, and dozens of other industries. Use the industry links above to filter.

District of Columbia operates the following preference and set-aside programs: DC Certified Business Enterprise (CBE), DC Small Business Enterprise (SBE), DC Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE). Each has its own certification process; check the state procurement office for eligibility details.

District of Columbia procurement is governed by DC Code §2-218.01 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 District of Columbia 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 District of Columbia 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.

District of Columbia 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 District of Columbia vendors or certified District of Columbia small businesses. Read each solicitation's evaluation criteria carefully.