Tennessee Department of General Services
Gwendolyn S. Davis, Commissioner

To do Business with the State of Tennessee

Department of General Services, Purchasing

• Bidder Instruction Overview
  
• Register as a Bidder or find Bid Opportunties in Edison
  • The State of Tennessee is in the process of implementing a new ERP system called Edison.  At this time, some agencies are processing their purchases through the State’s legacy procurement system, TOPS (Tennessee Online Purchasing System) and some are processing their purchases through the new system, Edison.  Both TOPS and Edison have different bid opportunities available for companies to bid on.  Please visit both links to view all opportunities for bidding with the State of Tennessee.
• Bid Opportunites from TOPS

• Diversity Business - Diversity businesses are vitally important to the department and valuable to the State. All State agencies are to actively solicit bids from small and minority-owned businesses whenever possible in order to purchase a fair proportion of purchases from diversity businesses.
  

• Index to Guidelines, Rules and Tennessee CodeAnnotated - cross reference to laws, regulations and procedures affecting how the State of Tennessee performs procurement functions. Index references the following documents:
  

• Purchasing Procedures Manual
  
• Rules of the Department of General Services Purchasing Division
  
• Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 12, Chapter 3 - the statutes which govern procurement practices in the State of Tennessee