Government bid and contracting opportunities at the local, state, and federal levels are available to businesses as a reliable means to increase sales and marketability. This section offers valuable resources for getting started in the process of selling to the government, the number one buyer of private goods.
Hudson Valley Municipal Purchasing Group (HVMPG)
The Hudson Valley Municipal Purchasing Group , is a group of municipal
agencies located in New York's Hudson Valley
Region that joined forces in March 2002 to create a Regional Bid
Notification System to notify businesses of bid and contract
opportunities.
Businesses can gain access to all HVMPG participating agencies bid information from one website. The system
provides instant access to all Bids, RFP's, Quotes, Addenda and Awards online. Government agencies from
Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester Counties are welcomed to use this system. In
addition to the current participating agencies, more are expected to join in the future.
Click here to see an overview of all open bid solicitations available locally through the Hudson Valley Municipal Purchasing Group. In order to see details on these opportunities, you have to sign up with HVMPG.
Click here for an PowerPointPresentation about teh HVMPG as well as government contracting in general.
More local, state and federal resources
For a matrix of bidding websites and a list of resources to facilitate the venture into bidding on other regional, New York State and federal contracts, please click here.



