An accessible “front door” for local businesses can help local governments ensure they are getting a wide range of responses to their RFI/RFPs, making these more competitive, fulfilling diverse contracting requirements more fully, and helping grow small and startup businesses who are providing innovative products and services to local governments and their residents. This should have resources for small businesses, as well as engaged, influential, and informed individuals who can facilitate these onramps and help answer questions.
- High-impact, Medium-difficulty
- Example: Kansas City, MO \\ Cleveland, OH
- Next Steps: Internally, governments can assemble their resources into a single location. Solutions like SourceLink and Qwally can help governments create the simple technology workflows for this front-door.