{"id":38971,"date":"2023-08-17T09:13:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T13:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=38971"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T13:13:04","slug":"county-to-move-to-electronic-bidding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=38971","title":{"rendered":"County to move to electronic bidding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18425\" src=\"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ChesterCountyLogo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"300\" \/>The Chester County Department of Procurement and General Services announces the transition to electronic bid and solicitation submission using Public Purchase as the platform.\u00a0\u00a0 The move to electronic bidding allows the County to post, accept, and open vendor responses electronically, eliminating the need for vendors to submit paper copies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good Governance \u2013 the pursuit of excellence through exceptional customer service, transparency, accountability, and innovation \u2013 is a priority of Chester County Government, and providing online and electronic services across more departments and types of business needs is in line with that priority. The move to the Public Purchase platform is another example of why Chester County Government ranks 4<sup>th<\/sup> in the nation for its digital technology practices.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The current Procurement system will remain in place until November 14, 2023. Learn more and register for Public Purchase at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesco.org\/DocumentCenter\/View\/73149\/Vendor-Announcement\">https:\/\/www.chesco.org\/DocumentCenter\/View\/73149\/Vendor-Announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chester County Department of Procurement and General Services announces the transition to electronic bid and solicitation submission using Public Purchase as the platform.\u00a0\u00a0 The move to electronic bidding allows the County to post, accept, and open vendor responses electronically, eliminating the need for vendors to submit paper copies. Good Governance \u2013 the pursuit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[138,14634],"class_list":["post-38971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county","tag-electronic-bidding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38972,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38971\/revisions\/38972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}