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Guide · 8 min

How to become a vendor for the City of Cleveland: registration, certification, and bids

Cleveland runs two parallel systems you have to set up: vendor registration through its OpenGov procurement portal, and Office of Equal Opportunity …

· Maya Okonkwo

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