Competitive Bidder's Prep Accelerator
The Competitive Bidder’s Prep Accelerator is a course that equips small, minority, and women-owned businesses to become qualified suppliers for the City of Memphis. It covers procurement basics, vendor strategies, and networking with purchasing reps, helping businesses overcome barriers and compete successfully.
Program Overview
The Competitive Bidder's Prep Accelerator is a course designed to identify and groom
potential "willing, ready, and able" suppliers for the City of Memphis. Through this
program, the City of Memphis is seeking to proactively invest in the community by
offering solutions to long-standing barriers that exist for small businesses.
This procurement accelerator will begin with covering the basics of procurement and carry on to how to be invited back to the job; share with vendors how they can leverage the City's diversity programs; build relationships with purchasing representatives.
In only nine (9) sessions, this accelerator will package a wealth of resources, opportunities and
exposure to help grow the pool of small, minority and women-owned businesses that
will be able to compete as the ideal vendor for the City of Memphis.
Cultivating Solutions
In creating the concept of this accelerator, the Office of Business Diversity and Compliance identified barriers small businesses faced when doing business with the City of Memphis. Access to capital, obtaining bonds, bid preparation and procurement knowledge were just a few barriers identified. The accelerator was created to package possible solutions and incorporating capacity-building components.
Space will be limited; therefore, participants must:
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Have been in business for two (2) or more years
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Commit to nine sessions
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Engage and participate in each class
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Provide a capability statement
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Provide two (2) trade references
Application
Please email your form to bdcinfo@memphistn.gov with the subject: CBPA APPLICATION [first name] [last name]
Application status: Open