The sale of a government fire truck in Montgomery County used to be a process teeming with paperwork.
The required mailings, bid applications, and newspaper advertising cost money, and often resulted in selling government property on the cheap.
The Pottstown-based municibid.com has changed that. Township merchandise is now a click away from a vast online audience, resulting in more bids and more money. And the selling process has been streamlined. It's post, bid, and pick up.
"I can absolutely say that it has broadened what we are able to sell," F. Thomas Snyder, chief procurement officer for Montgomery County, said of municibid.com. "It has been a tremendous increase in revenue, actually to the taxpayers, because they are the ones that ultimately benefit from increased revenue."
About 200 local government entities have joined municibid.com, including Montgomery County, Media, West Conshohocken, Delaware County, Hatfield Township, East Whiteland, and Upper Makefield.
Hatfield recently sold an old street sweeper for $5,000 to a buyer from Massachusetts, said Andrew Haines, township manager. The winning bidder drove down and picked it up.
West Conshohocken sold a 1980 dump truck for $30,050, soliciting 67 bids. Upper Salford sold a 2005 tractor for $25,200, getting 13 bids.
East Whiteland has taken in as much as $1,000 more than it typically received for a used car before online auctions, said William Steele, township director of public works.
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