eBridge Procurement hosted a reverse auction event in the state of Pennsylvania for Water Treatment Chemicals. 3 vendors participated in the reverse auction, resulting in over 65+ lowering bids. eBridge continues to create competitive bidding environments using reverse auctions across the United States

Chemicals Reverse Auction Bid Results 

• 3 Vendors
• 67 Lowering Bids
• 42 First Place Turnovers
• Lowest Spread between 1st - 2nd Place Vendors was 0.80%

The chemicals involved in the reverse auction event included: Sodium Hypochlorite and Lime Slurry.

This reverse auction event lasted for 32 minutes, which allowed the city to receive competitive bids for all line items. Because of the heightened vendor competition, the first-place vendor changed 42 times during the live bidding.

Reverse auction bidding events are the only way for water utilities to achieve this level of vendor competition. No other bid format creates this competitive of a bid environment 

eBridge is continuing to bring the benefits of reverse auction to public procurement entities across the United States. If you would like to see other reverse auction results we've brought to water utilities across the United States, please click here.