MyFloridaMarketPlace is where Florida state agencies buy. Registration is required to do business with them, and the transaction fee is a line item most contractors learn about after their first award rather than before their first bid.
MyFloridaMarketPlace, universally shortened to MFMP, is the State of Florida’s procurement system. State agencies use it to publish solicitations, manage vendor registration, issue purchase orders and process invoices.
The state estate is large and diverse. Universities and colleges, correctional facilities, state parks, Department of Health facilities, Fish and Wildlife properties, the Department of Management Services buildings, and a long list besides — all of it needing roofing, electrical, paving and general trade work on a continuing basis.
MFMP covers state agencies. It does not cover counties, cities, school districts or special districts, each of which procures independently on its own system. And FDOT runs its own separate lettings process for transportation work.
Registration in the Vendor Information Portal is required to do business with state agencies. It is free and you will provide:
As with every classification-driven system, your notifications depend entirely on the codes you select. Search the code list for the specific terms of your trade rather than selecting a broad construction category, and choose several closely related codes rather than one.
Review the selection after a month of notifications. The first attempt is always wrong in one direction — either you are receiving irrelevant work or you are receiving nothing.
This is the fact most contractors learn late, so it belongs early on this page.
Florida applies a transaction fee on payments made to vendors through MFMP, calculated as a percentage of the payment. It is deducted or invoiced in the ordinary course, and it applies to state agency purchases running through the system.
The practical implication is straightforward: it is a real cost of doing state business and it belongs in your pricing. A contractor who bids state work at the same margin as county work and then discovers the fee has given away part of the job. Certain purchases and vendor categories are exempt, and the current rate and exemptions should be confirmed against the state’s published information rather than assumed from any secondary source.
State agencies use the same broad solicitation types you will see elsewhere, with one Florida-specific addition:
| Type | Award basis |
|---|---|
| ITB | Invitation to Bid. Lowest responsive, responsible bidder on a defined scope. |
| RFP | Request for Proposals. Evaluated against published criteria; best value wins. |
| ITN | Invitation to Negotiate. Florida's negotiated route, allowing the agency to negotiate terms with shortlisted respondents. |
| RFQ | Informal quote solicitation, typically for smaller purchases. |
The ITN is worth recognising because it is more common in Florida state procurement than in most jurisdictions. Our guide to solicitation types covers the distinctions in full.
The Department of Management Services establishes state term contracts — pre-competed agreements that agencies can order against without running a new solicitation each time.
For a contractor, being on a relevant state term contract is valuable in a way single awards are not. It converts a one-off bid into an ongoing channel, because agencies order from it directly. The competition to get on is real, but the arrangement lasts years.
If your trade appears in the state term contract categories, understanding when those contracts come up for re-solicitation is worth the attention.
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