Procurement Bids in Hawaii

There are 215 open procurement opportunities in Hawaii from 4 state, county, city, school, hospital, and university agencies as of October 8, 2026. 44 of them close within the next seven days.

The top agencies posting bids in Hawaii right now are Hawaii Awards & Notices Data System. Each maintains its own vendor portal and posting schedule.

Register on Hawaii eProcurement System (HePS) (https://hands.ehawaii.gov/) for state-level opportunities. Register through HePS for state procurement access. Vendor compliance certifications (HCE) are tracked separately. For federal contracts, register on SAM.gov (free; assigns a UEI). For local agencies, registration is on the platform they use — Bonfire, PlanetBids, BidNet Direct, DemandStar — typically one registration per platform covers all agencies using it.

The most-active industries in Hawaii government procurement right now are Supplies & Equipment, Information Technology, Facilities & Maintenance. Browse each by industry to see current opportunities filtered to Hawaii.

Hawaii operates the following preference and set-aside programs: Hawaii Hawaiian Native Procurement Preference, Hawaii Apprenticeship Programs. Each has its own certification process; check the state procurement office for eligibility details.

Hawaii procurement is governed by Hawaii Revised Statutes Chapter 103D (Procurement Code). This includes bid solicitation, contract award, and vendor protest procedures. The state procurement office publishes implementing regulations and manuals.

Save a search on ProcureTap filtered to Hawaii to receive email alerts when new bids match your criteria. You can also subscribe to the state's official portal notifications. Larger agencies (state DOT, department of general services) publish quarterly forecasts of upcoming solicitations.

Every six hours. ProcureTap re-scrapes the Hawaii state procurement portal plus every county, city, school district, hospital, and university procurement system in the state on a six-hour cadence, so new postings appear here within hours of being published.

Hawaii generally does not restrict bidding to in-state vendors, but many agencies offer local-preference points or ties-broken-in-favor-of-local scoring, and some contracts under specific dollar thresholds may be limited to registered Hawaii vendors or certified Hawaii small businesses. Read each solicitation's evaluation criteria carefully.