Los Angeles County Open Solicitations (WebVen / Vendor Self Service)
LA County's standing procurement portal, where every county department — including Public Health, Mental Health, Children and Family Services and Public Social Services — posts open solicitations, including RFPs for evaluation, analysis and professional services.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No dollar figures are published on the portal; contract values are set per solicitation. Registered vendors receive email alerts filtered by commodity/service category.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Solicitations post continuously and stay listed until their individual closing date; closed solicitations remain visible for 180 days.
- Who can apply
- Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Practitioner, Community organisation
- Eligibility
- Open to any organisation that registers as a vendor in WebVen/Vendor Self Service; responses are submitted online. Certification as a Local Small Business Enterprise, Community Business Enterprise, Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise or Social Enterprise carries a stated 15% bid preference. Universities bid as prime or subcontractor like any other vendor.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- evaluation contracts · county human services · procurement · program evaluation
- Apply at
- https://doingbusiness.lacounty.gov/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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