See what other agencies actually paid — free for government
Civic IQ for Government is a free procurement research tool for public agencies. Search vendors, contracts, RFPs, and $14T+ in tracked spend across 80,000+ agencies — and benchmark any purchase against what peer agencies bought, paid, and signed.
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Civic IQ tracks more than 80,000 U.S. state, local, and education agencies, $14T+ in public spend, and 1.5M+ new documents per month across all 50 states.
What is Civic IQ for Government?
Civic IQ for Government is a free procurement research platform that lets public agencies see real contracts, prices, and vendor histories from 80,000+ peer agencies before making a purchase.
Instead of relying on vendor pitches and reference calls, agencies use Civic IQ to look up what comparable cities, counties, and school districts actually bought, what they paid, and which vendors delivered the work. Every answer is grounded in signed contracts, real solicitations, and tracked public spend — not marketing claims.
How it works
How do government agencies get free access?
Any employee of a U.S. public agency can get free access by verifying a government email address — no contract, no sales call, typically approved within one business day.
Request access with your government email
Tell us who you are and where you work. We verify government emails and set up your free account — no sales call, no procurement to run, typically within one business day.
Search vendors, contracts, RFPs, and peers
One search across the vendors serving government, the contracts they've signed, live and historical RFPs, and what peer agencies are buying.
Benchmark before you buy
Pricing comparables, contract history, and peer decisions de-risk your procurement — validate a vendor and benchmark the price before you ever sit through their pitch.
What you get
What can you research with Civic IQ?
Civic IQ combines vendor histories, signed contracts, live and historical RFPs, and $14T+ in tracked spend into one search across the whole government market.
Vet a vendor
See every government contract a vendor has actually signed — agencies served, categories of work, and contract history. Find and vet vendors by what they've delivered to government, not by who has the loudest marketing.
See what peers bought
Learn what agencies like yours purchased, from whom, and on what terms before you start from scratch. Draw on the collective experience of 80,000+ tracked agencies instead of starting every purchase cold.
Find signed contracts
Search signed government contracts for pricing comparables, terms, and incumbent vendors — before you negotiate, and before you write your own solicitation.
Benchmark pricing
Compare what peer agencies paid across $14T+ in tracked public spend for comparable products and services.
Borrow scope language
Search live and historical RFPs to see how peer agencies structured solicitations that worked — and borrow scope language from agencies that already solved your problem.
Ask in plain language
Ask questions like "who provides permitting software to mid-size counties?" and get answers grounded in real contract data, not model guesses.
| Agency | Vendor | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
City of Springfield pop. 62K | CivStack Software | $84,000 / yr |
Lakeside County pop. 149K | PermitFlow Gov | $121,500 / yr |
City of Fairview pop. 58K | CivStack Software | $79,200 / yr |
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Why it's free
Why is Civic IQ free for government?
Civic IQ is free for public agencies because it is funded by the companies that sell to government, never by the agencies that buy.
Built for the buyer's side of the table
Governments buy rarely, so every purchase feels like a first purchase. Civic IQ pools the market — what was bought, by whom, from whom, and at what price — and hands that collective knowledge to any public agency, free. Vendors pay to reach the market; government never pays to understand it.
- No cost to your agency — ever
There's no trial clock, no procurement to run, and no budget line to justify. Free means free, permanently.
- Answers in minutes, not engagements
Market research that would take weeks of reference calls and records requests — vendor track records, pricing comparables, peer purchases — is a search away, self-serve.
- Data instead of pitches
Every purchase decision is grounded in what peer agencies actually signed: real contracts, real spend, real solicitations — before a single vendor demo.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Yes — Civic IQ is free for public agencies permanently, with no trial period, no procurement process, and no budget line required. It is funded by vendors who sell to government, not by agencies.
Any employee of a U.S. state, local, or education public agency qualifies, including cities, counties, school districts, special districts, and public utilities. Access is verified through your government email address.
Civic IQ includes signed contracts, purchase pricing, live and historical RFPs, and vendor histories from more than 80,000 public agencies across all 50 states.
No. Vendors cannot see which agencies searched for them, what you viewed, or any of your activity on the platform.
No — anyone at a public agency can use Civic IQ for research, whether or not they hold purchasing authority.
Search the product or service category in Civic IQ to see signed contracts from comparable agencies, including vendor, contract value, and term. This is free for verified government employees.
Yes — Civic IQ provides free contract, pricing, and vendor research for state and local agencies. Federal-focused databases like USAspending cover federal awards, while Civic IQ covers state, local, and education procurement.
Your next purchase shouldn't start from scratch
Join the public agencies using Civic IQ to research vendors, benchmark pricing, and learn from their peers — free, forever, for government.