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To do Business with the State of Tennessee

  • Department of General Services
  • Department of Finance and Administration
  • Department of Transportation

    • Department of General Services, Purchasing

  • How to Do Business with the State of Tennessee - a set of guidelines for selling goods and services to the State of Tennessee.


  • To Register as a Vendor - (Online)
    Bidder Application and Instructions.


  • To Register as a Vendor - (Download)
    Bidder Application and Instructions.



  • Diversity Business - Diversity businesses are vitally important to the department and valuable to the State. All State agencies are to actively solicit bids from small and minority-owned businesses whenever possible in order to purchase a fair proportion of purchases from diversity businesses.


  • Americans With Disabilities Act
  • Statement of Non-Discrimination
  • Procedures to Visit a Buyer
  • Discrimination Prohibited


  • Index to Guidelines, Rules and Tennessee CodeAnnotated - cross reference to laws, regulations and procedures affecting how the State of Tennessee performs procurement functions. Index references the following documents:


  • Purchasing Procedures Manual
  • Rules of the Department of General Services Purchasing Division
  • Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 12, Chapter 3 - the statutes which govern procurement practices in the State of Tennessee


  • Procurement of commodities having Recycled Content:Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 211 - The State of Tennessee encourages the purchase of recycled products where available and the pricing is competitive. All departments of state government are encouraged tobe environmentally sensitive and purchase products with recycled content or recyclable products. For reporting purposes, bidders are to state on the pricesheet the percentage of recycled content for products bid.


    • To Do Business with the State as a Professional Service Contractor


  • The state contracts for personal, professional, and consulting services directly through all of its various departments and agencies (and under the oversight of the Department of Finance and Administration). Individuals, businesses, and other service providers who wish to provide personal, professional, and consulting services to the State of Tennessee may wish to visit the State of Tennessee Service Procurement web site for more information.

  • Further, all who wish to provide personal, professional, and consulting services to the state should register with the state. The Department of General Services maintains the state's registry for potential contractors of all types. The registry offers state agencies a database of potential contractors and gives service providers who are disadvantaged, minority, or small business entrepreneurs and additional opportunity to be known within state government. To register, visit the Contractor Registration web site especially for service providers.

  • Finally, all service providers are encouraged to frequently visit the State of Tennessee Request for Proposals & Other Notices web page to review recent solicitations and other professional service procurement related notices.

    To Do Business with Transportation (TDOT)

  • Highway Project Contracts
  • Doing Business with the TDOT
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