3.3.2. Team Georgia Marketplace™
Team Georgia Marketplace™ is provided by SPD
and its partners and serves as an online tool to support various state purchasing functions, including registration of suppliers, advertisement of procurement solicitations and contract opportunities, electronic bidding, and contracts management. All solicitations posted to Team Georgia Marketplace™ are automatically publicly advertised on the GPR.
Suppliers should review Chapter 4 – Stage 4 - Solicitation Process for information regarding accessing and responding to solicitations available through Team Georgia Marketplace™. Except as expressly stated otherwise in the solicitation, responses to solicitations posted in Team Georgia Marketplace™ must be submitted through the system; bids or proposals delivered via fax, email, mail or any other manner other than through Team Georgia Marketplace™ will not be accepted.
SPD intends Team Georgia Marketplace™ to be the primary vehicle for all solicitations conducted by SPD as well as by all state entities that are using the State Accounting Office version of PeopleSoft Financials. SPD will work with all eligible state entities to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully use Team Georgia Marketplace™ and establish a date for each participating state entity to begin conducting all solicitations in Team Georgia Marketplace™. All procurement professionals should familiarize themselves with Team Georgia Marketplace™ forms since any solicitations conducted by SPD on the state entity’s behalf must be prepared using these forms.
For those state entities currently using Team Georgia Marketplace™, the use of Team Georgia Marketplace™ is mandatory for all RFQs, RFQCs, RFPs, and RFIs unless SPD grants an exception. Requests for exceptions must be submitted in writing to SPD via email at processimprovement@doas.ga.gov.
NOTE: Sole source and consortia/cooperative purchase notices must be posted directly to the GPR.