What do the Cities of Philadelphia & Boston have in common?

We are pleased to announce, after a competitive proposal process, both the City of Philadelphia and the City of Boston, in the past two weeks, chose municibid.com as their online auctions provider.  Both cited ease of use, demonstrated results and no cost as determining factors.  The City of Boston, who has used municibid in their pilot program, is entering into a 3 year contract with us.  The City of Philadelphia, who was using a competing service, will transition to municibid, beginning April, 2011.  We are excited to continue our relationship with the City of Boston and look forward to getting started with the City of Philadelphia, our home town!  More details regarding both cities' auction items will be highlighted in next month's "municibid monthly."

Some other government agencies who recently joined municibid include: Borough of Hatboro, PA; City of Westfield, MA; East Lansdowne, PA; Shamokin Area SD; Town of Bourne, MA; Town of Stoneham, MA; Upper Montgomery Joint Authority; Upper Providence Township, PA... and more.

Is your government agency looking for a better way to sell no longer needed items?  We would love to be considered!  Ready to get started?  Register here. Registering with us does not commit you to use us... and you'll be automatically entered into our $5,000 Technology Grant drawing.

Look for municibid at CONEXPO!

CONEXPO-CON/AGG is the international gathering place for the construction industries.  It's held every three years in Las Vegas, this year on March 22-26.  If your government agency has heavy equipment to auction, we highly recommend getting it posted and being open for bids throughout the show dates!  We are seeing an increase in used heavy equipment coming available on the market.  We are continuing to build our network of heavy equipment buyers. 

municibid has also partnered with Rock & Dirt (among other publications/websites) to promote your government agency's equipment (at no cost to the agency).  Items are posted as soon as they come online.  We also have a display ad running monthly, in all editions, nationwide.  This ad will include municibid's heavy equipment auction items in the future.

We upgraded our servers, auction listing process, bidder notification system, and more!

Last Sunday, we transitioned to new servers.  These new, faster servers will allow us to continue to scale and meet the needs of our continued, rapid growth.  With the new server comes an even smoother listing process for sellers.   We'll email our sellers directly with the specifics of the updated listing process.  If you're a seller, you can give a try now!  It includes helpful technology to guide you through the process.

Zip Code searching has returned!  Our new auction notification system will also be available soon.  This will allow bidders to choose when to be notified (via email) when specific items they are looking for become available for auction.

municibid was built by the people who use it.  Your feedback and comments are important to us and something we take very seriously.  Please never hesitate to let us know if you have an idea or suggestion on further improving municibid!  If you have feedback or ideas, you'll notice a tab on the left side of municibid.com, you may enter it there, or email them to us!  

It's time for Spring Cleaning!

Let's hope we've seen the end of the snow!  It has definitely caused delays in getting auction items posted, which we are now seeing come online.  With the increase in activity and attention municibid is continuing to receive, now is a great time to do some Spring cleaning and get your no longer needed items listed! 

municibid is very easy and free for government!
It's Simple! Gov't agencies lists their items (we will help), we advertise the items, attracting bidders (at no cost to gov), we present the Gov't agency with results, Gov't agency accepts or rejects the results.  If accepted the winning bidder pays Gov't agency directly, in full.

Testimonial (received March 1, 2011):
"Many thanks to the folks at municibid.  Our municipality recently used this service to dispose of surplus property, and the process could not have been easier.  municibid helps local government to become more efficient."  -Tommy Ryan, Borough Manager, Borough of Hatboro, PA