Open patwater opened 5 years ago
cc'ing the folks that helped build out the platform: @stvnrlly @vzvenyach @adelevie
Thanks @randyhart . By the way did you all ever come across a YC startup that was attempting to do a micropurchase marketplace? Hear via Mariel Reed that the company was called "Lace Labs"
There was also an interesting civic tech project somewhat in this vein looking to catalogue procurement thresholds via open data (now defunct it seems)
Anyway one interesting tidbit and curious to your alls thoughts about how we can build on this great work on the 18F marketplace out in CA
@patwater - https://www.coprocure.us/
Yup Mariel is great!
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Following up on this conversation on the twitter (treeverse map), a couple questions and ideas about how to port this over to California. Big things afoot out West...
Questions
Ideas
The most natural home as mentioned on twitter is probably https://code.ca.gov/
Brainstorming sustainable funding models, I wonder if the marketplace could operate similar to many other online marketplaces and take a simple percentage of the fees.
The one challenge to that is that this micropurchase marketplace has historically been one side (correct me if I'm wrong) where 18F is the sole purchaser of micropurchase marketplace code so that's a bit of an ouroboros.
That model would make sense where other governments and public sector organizations are utilizing the marketplace and could set the fees just to recover costs of running the micropurchase site.
That could make sense to have a quasigovernmental NGO as a neutral third party to manage the marketplace. Curious to your alls thoughts.