Government technology research starts with questions: Who else uses a product? What did they pay for it? How did they buy it? Finding those answers should be central to the research process — not an afterthought you piece together from vendor websites and cold calls.
The open internet was never built for how government actually buys. Search results are shaped by whoever spends the most on marketing. The moment you show interest, the sales calls start. And the evidence that actually matters — what comparable agencies already bought, what they paid, and whether it worked — lives in contracts and implementation records that a search engine can’t reach.
So we set out to build the thing that didn’t exist: a Government-Only Vendor Intelligence Network. A place where a city of 30,000 can see what a city of 300,000 already runs, where your research stays private to you, and where the proof comes from real purchasing records instead of a vendor’s pitch deck. The more we built, the clearer it became that this network is the whole point — so this week, we rebuilt our homepage around it.
Marketplace.city’s updated homepage puts advanced search at the center of that work. The streamlined layout gives you a single starting point for exploring governments, technologies, and public-sector implementations — no digging through menus to find where to begin.
Start with a technology category such as Cybersecurity or GIS, or explore an agency such as the City of San Diego or a company like Adobe. From one search box you can move between categories, agencies, and companies and follow the questions relevant to your agency’s next purchase.
A few things the new homepage makes easier:
Marketplace.city’s government-only vendor intelligence network connects research to implementations, pricing, contracts, and cooperative purchasing options. You can learn from peers who have already bought, using purchasing records to inform your evaluation.
The updated homepage highlights 400+ markets analyzed, 100,000+ implementations across 5,400+ agencies, and 12,000+ products. Government-specific market landscapes compare vendors, products, pricing, and specifications side by side. Publicly sourced contracts and purchase orders provide evidence of real deployments across city and county governments — so every product you see is tied to where it’s actually in use, not just where it’s advertised.
Visit Marketplace.city to begin your search, or sign up to explore the Clearbox platform. Start with your procurement question and use documented government purchases to guide the next step.