About Citymart

Every procurement is an opportunity! We founded Citymart in 2010 to raise the world’s expectations on city procurement. Our mission was to help city leaders treat very procurement as an opportunity: to innovate, to save money, win contracts and improve life for city workers and residents. We helped cities and businesses unlock these opportunities through high-quality methodologies, information and advice, wherever they were in the procurement process.

The Tipping Point

In 2021, our board agreed that we had accomplished much of our mission, closed the organization, and open-sourced our methods. Our team has trained 3,000 public officials (and thousands more using our free Procurement Institute), and 135 governments on all continents have adopted our methods, with countless more replicating it independently. Dozens of organizations and consultancies around the world replicate what we have brought into the world: problem-based procurement, procurement challenges, and rigorous market engagement.

All this was made possible by incredible partners who helped us inspire the world, such as Bloomberg Philanthropies, Social Capital, nesta, Knight Foundation, Urban.US, Nordic Impact, Luminate, EDVenture, 100 Resilient Cities, The Rockefeller Foundation, Ashoka, and Falkora.