Introduction:
Onvia, Inc. provides business information and research solutions that help companies plan, market, and sell to government agencies in the United States and Canada. It offers Onvia Database, which offers search functionality on its proprietary analytics platform of local, state, and federal government agency purchasing information, as well as provides public sector business intelligence to customers across agencies, vendors, projects, and term contracts over a historical, real-time, and future spending timeline. The company also provides Project Center that offers clients with a view of individual procurement activities at various stages of the purchasing cycle; and Agency Center, which offers users with agencies procurement histories, current projects, and spending forecasts in an application. In addition, it offers Vendor Center that offers strategic intelligence on companies that do business with state and local governments; Spending Forecast Center, which provides an insight into budgets and capital improvement plans of agencies; Term Contract Center that helps clients to make purchases using term or recurring contracts; and Purchase Order Analytics to identify new agency buyers, inform pricing strategies, and understand the competitive landscape for its goods and services. Further, the company offers the Onvia Guide that provides clients with information relating to procurement activity of the agencies, industries, and markets for clients; and Management Reports, such as contact lists that offer a list of decision makers, agency procurement officers, and zoning officials. It serves client Fortune 500 companies and small businesses in various industries, such as architectural and engineering services, operations and maintenance services, transportation, infrastructure and construction, technology, financial services and insurance, healthcare, business services, and education. Onvia, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.