Q: What is WACommerce.org?

WACommerce.org is a powerful economic development tool used by federal, state, local and private organizations to identify and solicit quotes from businesses for development work, products and services for various size opportunities (under $100K to $5 million and more for commercial items or services). Many of these opportunities are valued below $25,000 or ongoing product purchases of $2500 or less that small businesses can capture. See short Demo “Click Here”

Each business day offers a finite number of prospects and potential deals. WACommerce.org provides the greatest number of local opportunities focused on stimulating our local economy. Without a tool like WACommerce.org, businesses are actively eliminating themselves from consideration for the billions of dollars in contracts that the government awards each year. Many of those contracts are in a financial range that a small business would be comfortable pursuing or partnering with for the larger projects; NOT all contracts run into the millions of dollars, this is a typical misnomer.

WA Commerce provides the supporting technology that promises to give businesses more access to billions of dollars in federal, state, local and private contracts, subcontracts and sales to the government. WACommerce helps keep defense, federal, state and local contract earnings in your community where projects are located. WACommerce is customer-centric and committed to providing excellent, ongoing services to help businesses grow, improve and profit, through delivering value and performance to customers.

Since 2006, over 30,000 businesses and individuals have registered and used the GovTide/GovCart business development platform that now powers the WACommerce.org web site resulting in:

    * 375 million dollars, retained by local communities

    * creating an estimated 10,741 jobs

WACommerce.org technology makes it easier for businesses to bid on the $977-Billion in federal dollars that the military alone spends each year with civilian contractors. Example: The military purchases more than weapons. The Department of Defense spends a quarter of a trillion dollars each year with civilian contractors for needs ranging from textiles to furniture, from food contracts to professional services.  WACommerce.org matches registered vendors with federal, local, state, private and defense procurement offices and automatically notifies vendors of opportunities.  “In a matter of a few weeks, contracts worth more than $1-billion will be posted in our database,” said Gary Burkhart, Small Business Development Executive Director.  “We have designed our program to give businesses the  ability to submit their own subcontracts if desired and respond to subcontracts faster. Of course, not all   contracts will be awarded to in-state businesses, but without a business development tool like WACommerce.org, businesses are eliminating themselves from consideration for the billions of dollars in contracts and subcontracts that the government awards each year.