The Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA) has partnered with Public Purchase, a web based e-Procurement service.  In order to begin, or continue to, receive bid notifications as a current or new vendor you must register with Public Purchase.  This process will only take a few minutes.  The two-step registration process/instructions are detailed below under Instructions.

INSTRUCTIONS:
How to register with Public Purchase:
1. Use the link below to begin the registration process.  It can take up to 24 hours for your account to become active.  You will receive an email from notices@publicpurchase.com letting you know your account is activated.  Be sure and add this email address to your contacts to avoid the bid notifications emails being sent to your junk folder.

The link is: https://www.publicpurchase.com/gems/register/vendor/register

If you were already registered with Public Purchase previously please proceed directly to step 2.

2. Register with Agency:
1. Once you have received your activation email from Public Purchase log into www.publicpurchase.com and accept the terms and conditions of use.
2. Click on the "Tools" tab, click on the "Agencies" tab.
3. This will take you to the agency search page.  In the agency name box type in the name of the agency.  Leave the "new agency since" box blank.  Make sure registration status says "ALL".  Click on "search", this will bring up the agency below to the far right of it you will see "view" and "Register" click on "Register" link to complete the vendor registration with the agency.

It is important that this second part of the registration is complete or you will not be able to submit proposals to SORTA.  It is the  responsibility of the vendor/supplier to keep the contact information up to date, such as contact names and email addresses.