Procurement Bids in Missouri

There are 91 open procurement opportunities in Missouri from 8 state, county, city, school, hospital, and university agencies as of November 9, 2026. 38 of them close within the next seven days.

The top agencies posting bids in Missouri right now are Missouri Office of Administration — MissouriBUYS, Federal Government, City of Springfield. Each maintains its own vendor portal and posting schedule.

Register on MissouriBUYS (https://missouribuys.mo.gov/) for state-level opportunities. Register on MissouriBUYS for state procurement access. Vendor profile maintenance is required to remain in active status. 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 Missouri government procurement right now are Construction, Facilities & Maintenance, Professional Services. Browse each by industry to see current opportunities filtered to Missouri.

Missouri operates the following preference and set-aside programs: Missouri Minority/Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MBE/WBE), Service-Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (SDVBE). Each has its own certification process; check the state procurement office for eligibility details.

Missouri procurement is governed by Missouri Revised Statutes Chapter 34 (Purchasing Agreements). 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 Missouri 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 Missouri 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.

Missouri 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 Missouri vendors or certified Missouri small businesses. Read each solicitation's evaluation criteria carefully.

Register on MissouriBUYS (missouribuys.mo.gov) — the state's procurement platform for executive-agency solicitations. Missouri MBE, WBE, and Service-Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (SDVBE) certification is through the OA Division of Purchasing at oa.mo.gov/purchasing. MoDOT construction bidders need additional Contractor Prequalification. Kansas City, Saint Louis, and county governments require separate registrations.

Missouri's Service-Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (SDVBE) program targets 10% of state contract dollars for service-disabled veteran-owned firms — one of the more aggressive SDVBE goals in the country. Certification is through the OA Division of Purchasing. Missouri also runs MBE (10% minority) and WBE (5% women-owned) programs with parallel certifications and utilization requirements.

The Missouri Department of Transportation publishes lettings through the MoDOT Bid Opening system. Bidders must complete MoDOT Contractor Prequalification before bidding construction. Bids are sealed unit-price on a bill of quantities. Federal-aid projects carry Davis-Bacon wages, Buy America iron/steel (49 CFR 661), and DBE subcontracting goals typically 8-10%.

Chapter 290 requires state and local public-works contracts over $75,000 to pay Missouri prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. The $75,000 threshold was lowered from $250,000 in 2018 reforms — meaning more small projects now carry prevailing-wage obligations. Wage schedules are trade-, county-, and construction-type-specific.

Boeing Defense operates a major facility in Berkeley, MO (adjacent to Saint Louis Lambert International Airport), the historical McDonnell Douglas heritage site. Boeing Defense procurement runs through Boeing Supply Chain — separate from state or local government but a substantial vendor market. Sub-tier aerospace suppliers throughout Saint Louis metro tie into Boeing's F-15EX, F/A-18, and MQ-25 programs.

ProcureTap re-scrapes MissouriBUYS, MoDOT lettings, Kansas City, Saint Louis, Jackson County, Saint Louis County, University of Missouri System, and every Missouri county, city, school district, hospital, and university procurement system on a 6-hour cadence.