• For local government organizations in the State of New Jersey with a full-time QPA, MuniVendor’s annual fee is $36,000, paid in monthly installments of $3,000/month.
• For local government organizations in the State of New Jersey without a full-time QPA, MuniVendor’s annual fee is $15,000, paid in monthly installments of $1,250/month.

MuniVendor employs dedicated, full-time Customer Success Managers whose sole purpose is to work with your Purchasing Department throughout the onboarding process to ensure success. Our team will take your existing content and work with you to migrate that content to the MuniVendor platform. There is no cost for onboarding assistance.

MuniVendor can be as hands-on or as hands off as your Purchasing Department needs during the onboarding process, although our strong preference is to do as much of the migration work as possible so that your Purchasing Department is not burdened with this work.

Our goal is to onboard your local government organization as soon as possible so that your Purchasing Department can enjoy using MuniVendor quickly. Once we are supplied with the all the upcoming requests for qualifications, requests for proposals and/or bids that your local government organization intends to publish, our team can have you ready within a matter of days.

Yes, onboarding includes training. There is no additional cost for onboarding assistance, and there is no additional cost for training. In addition to handling as much of the migration to MuniVendor as possible, our team provides initial and ongoing training for your entire team. All training sessions can be in-person and on-premises, or virtual, depending on your preferences and needs.

• Initial Training – After signing on as a MuniVendor client, a permanent Customer Success Manager (CSM) is assigned to work with your local government organization. This means that you will always be communicating with a person from the MuniVendor team who is familiar with your organization, your team members, and your unique requirements. The CSM assigned to work with you can provide on-site training. Training sessions usually last up to one-hour, but during initial training, the CSM assigned to you can stay on-premises for a full work day so that as your team members use MuniVendor and have questions, the CSM can immediately spring into action and walk you and your team members through any challenges.
• Ongoing Training – You’ll be given your CSM’s email address and direct phone number so that you can contact the CSM anytime during normal business hours. Our CSMs purpose is to ensure your success! This means that whenever you have questions, do not hesitate to contact your CSM. The CSM can always come back to your premises to train new personnel, or even to provide refresher training to your existing team members as often as you request. Turnaround time to schedule on-premises training is generally under two business days, and our CSMs are always available to provide immediate virtual training during normal business hours.

Our CSMs have intimate user experience and technical knowledge of the MuniVendor platform, and in most cases have been employed by our company for over a year. Our CSMs are always friendly with a can-do, proactive and positive attitude, and are ready to help!

MuniVendor’s team of  subject matter experts (certified QPAs and municipal attorneys) ensure that all forms used in the procurement process are compliant with NJ Local Agency Procurement Laws, and that all NJ State forms are current.

MuniVendor’s validation and automation saves vendors time and money, and dramatically decreases the probability of errors to virtually 0%. The error reduction also helps local government organizations work with the best vendors possible, ensuring that a vendor is not disqualified because they incorrectly filled out a form. 

Instead of filling out paper forms manually, using MuniVendor, vendors only have to fill out their Vendor Profile Page in the MuniVendor platform, which asks all the questions that are found throughout the many forms found in the submission packets. Once the Vendor Profile Page is complete, MuniVendor automatically inserts the corresponding content into the correct forms, saving the vendor time, money, and ensuring that all forms are filled out correctly.

The MuniVendor platform enables vendors to submit their responses only after every form is correctly filled out and executed. For example, if a vendor forgot to upload a copy of their Business Registration Certificate (BRC), then that vendor would not be able to submit their response until after the BRC has been uploaded.

New Jersey implemented an updated notary public program that allows for remote and electronic notarizations. MuniVendor’s team includes full-time New Jersey notaries who are available to perform digital notarizations for vendors Monday through Friday, 9am until 5pm EST. There is no extra cost to vendors to use MuniVendor’s digital notaries.

When your purchasing department prepares an upcoming vendor opportunity for publication, your team determines which forms and documents will require notarization through our user-friendly web interface.

Responders will not be able to submit their digital submission packet until all the forms or documents that require notarization have been digitally notarized.

With MuniVendor, your Purchasing Department team members no longer need to manually create the bid checklist. Instead, MuniVendor automatically generates the bid checklist based on the forms and documents you or your team members determined were required while preparing the upcoming vendor opportunity for publication.

Bid checklists are vendor-opportunity-specific, which means that with MuniVendor you retain the flexibility of determining which forms and documents appear in each opportunity and on the bid checklist.

MuniVendor was built to solve the public procurement challenges in the State of New Jersey. While our platform was built with New Jersey State in mind, MuniVendor may also be ideal to implement in other states. If your local government organization is not in the State of New Jersey, and you would like to determine if MuniVendor can still be used in your state, then please contact us here.