Home Β» Departments Β» Finance Β» Purchasing. Purchasing is excited to announce that the City of Round Rock has partnered with Bonfire Interactive to create a procurement portal that will allow the vendor community to receive notifications for business opportunities and submit bids and proposals to the City of Round Rock digitally.
Bonfire Portal. The City is implementing Bonfire in phases. The Transportation department is expected to transition to Bonfire in Fall Vendor Registration in Bonfire is free and easy. Be sure to select the NIGP commodity codes that correspond to your business or organization. Solicitations will be set up using those codes and will be matched to vendors and contractors with the same codes.
Bonfire offers outstanding vendor support. The Bonfire support team can be reached by email at support gobonfire. The Purchasing Division is charged with managing the procurement of goods and services for the City of Round Rock. Purchasing protects the interest of City taxpayers and is responsible for assuring fair and equitable treatment to all vendors. Minority and small business vendors are encouraged to respond on any and all City solicitations. Utilizing centralized coordination of purchasing activities, the Purchasing Division receives purchase requests from the various City departments and determines, with the assistance of the requesting department, the best method of procurement, including open market purchasing, informal solicitations, formal solicitations, cooperative purchasing and procurement card purchases.
Centralized coordination of purchasing encourages cost savings through bulk purchases and consolidated purchases as well as compliance with various purchasing legal requirements. Purchasing Definitions, Standard Terms and Conditions. Standard Insurance Requirements Updated August The primary purpose of the Contract Management office is to negotiate, administer, extend, terminate and re-negotiate all contracts and agreements other than construction contracts for the City.
Responsibilities include preparing and administering procurement contracts, contract extensions, bid awards, Inter-local agreements, change orders, budget amendments and agenda requests.
