The California Department of General Services (DGS) has launched its procurement tool and leveraged procurement agreements shopping experience, known as the eMarketplace.
The new portal features search functionality that allows state agencies to more easily navigate through "statewide IT, non-IT goods, and IT services contracts and their associated line-items," according to the eMarketplace informational website.
“eMarketplace enhances DGS [Procurement Division's] statewide Leveraged Procurement Agreements (LPAs) shopping experience with efficient search functionality and seamless integration into current statewide procurement systems,” the department noted in a Nov. 14 letter.
The procurement portal will also eventually integrate into the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal) as part of the second phase of the two-stage rollout. Completion of the second phase is expected at some point in 2026.
Importantly, the eMarketplace is not a replacement for the existing Cal eProcure portal and was “designed to be an enhancement and allow users to search by contract line-items,” DGS said on its website.
More information about the portal is available here.
First Phase of DGS’ eMarketplace Goes Live
The new “procurement tool and shopping experience” enables state agencies seeking IT goods and services through leveraged procurement agreements to find them at the line-item level.
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