VENDOR REGISTRATION

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If you are interested in doing business with the City of Santa Monica and being placed on the

City's Vendor List for goods and services, the first step is to register online as a vendor.

Registered vendors are able to maintain their profile online 24/7, receive email bid alert

notifications as well as other communications from the City of Santa Monica. Please click on the

link below and complete the online vendor registration. Registered vendors will receive email

notifications of bid/contract opportunities based on the product/service categories they

selected.

TO REGISTER

1) Go to http://www.smgov.net

Click on the “Doing Business” tab on the left side menu Click on the “Doing Business with Santa Monica” option from the drop down menu Click on the “Online Vendor Registration” link

- OR -

2) Click the following link to go directly to the vendor portal site:

https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=15167

Select "New Vendor Registration" from the main vendor portal.

Click on “New

Vendor

Registration”

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COMPLETE INFORMATION ON EACH TAB

COMPANY INFO

Note: Fields marked with “*” (red asterisk) are mandatory.

Company and contact information should be kept up to date at all times.

Company Info tab:

Select a user name and

password (user

name/passwords must be

between 6-10 characters).

Complete company

information.

Enter contact information

(verify email address is

entered correctly).

In addition to a primary

email, an alternate email may

be added. Alternate emails

are secondary emails that

get copied on vendor

registration confirmation,

user name and password

requests, vendor profile edits

and new bid alert email

messages.

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ADDITIONAL ADDRESSES

CLASSIFICATIONS/LICENSES

OTHER BUSINESS INFO

Additional Addresses tab:

If your company has multiple

addresses you may enter them here.

Classifications/Licenses tab:

Select the classifications that are applicable to the business owner.

Select all contractor licenses that apply. License number and expiration date are mandatory if a license type is selected.

Other Business Info tab:

Additional information

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CATEGORY/DESCRIPTION

If you would like to look at or print the list of commodity codes currently used by the

City of Santa Monica, click here to view current list of codes. You can select up to 20

categories, so be sure to keep those up to date.

Click on “Register” at the bottom of the page when you have completed the

registration form.

Category/Description tab:

Business Description: Optional area for you to

describe additional information about your company to the Agency. Bid notices are not generated by information submitted in the description box.

Categories: Bid alert notifications are sent based on the categories selected. To select the categories applicable to your business:

Click "Add" button.

Select categories. You can search for a category in numeric or alphabetical order, sort by clicking on the column header or you can type in a key word or code in the box above to narrow search results.

Double click on the category you wish to add or click once to select and then click “Add”.

Click “Done” once you are done

selecting categories.

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FORGOT YOUR USERNAME OR PASSWORD TO LOG IN?

Go to the vendor portal homepage

https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=15167

Click on "Log In" on the bottom right side of the screen, then click on "Forgot".

Enter your email address and select "Send Email". An email will be sent with your

user name and password.

If you still require assistance, you may contact PlanetBids support either online

http://home.planetbids.com/tech-support or by phone at (818) 992-1771.

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