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정부 잉여 경매 플랫폼 개발

당신의 GovDeals 수수료가 다른 누군가의 비즈니스 모델에 자금을 제공하고 있습니다

49,500

Monthly Searches

"Government auctions" US volume

7-9%

GovDeals Seller Fees

Eliminated with custom platform

90,500

GSA Auctions Volume

Addressable upstream query

$20K+

Starting Point

Single-agency platform

What Government Surplus Platforms Actually Control — And What They Cost You

Your county fleet liquidates $2M in vehicles this year. A $140K check goes to GovDeals — not for roads, not for staffing, but to rent their brand on your public service. A government surplus auction platform is the public-sector bidding system built to handle asset liquidation under procurement law: sealed and open auctions, FOIA-compliant exports, bidder verification tiers, audit-ready records. State DOTs sell fleet vehicles. Sheriff's offices liquidate seized assets. School districts offload retired buses. Municipal public works moves heavy equipment. Every sale operates under statutes that mandate public transparency, specific sale-process requirements, and data exposure generic SaaS auction tools don't handle. Your agency's name belongs on that service — not a vendor logo in another state. Custom platforms typically recoup build costs in under 12 months. After that, your 7–9% seller fee becomes margin returned to your agency budget.

프로젝트가 실패하는 이유

Let's talk about the math, because it's pretty straightforward A county fleet liquidating $2M per year in vehicles is paying GovDeals $140,000 to $180,000 annually in seller fees. Every year. That's budget that should stay with the county -- funding roads, staffing, whatever the actual mission is. The real kicker is the payback timeline: a custom platform typically recoups its build cost in under 12 months. After that, the savings are pure margin returned to the agency.

There's a trust problem that doesn't get talked about enough When an agency runs its public surplus sales through GovDeals or Public Surplus, the public sees GovDeals branding -- not the agency's. But surplus sales are a public service. They're how agencies demonstrate responsible stewardship of public assets. When that happens under a third-party brand, the agency gets no credit for it. Honestly, it looks like the agency farmed out a public duty to a vendor in Chicago or wherever. A custom platform puts the agency's name on that service, where it belongs.

FOIA requests on auction data aren't rare -- they're routine And if your platform can't export that data automatically in a compliant format, someone on staff is manually pulling records, formatting spreadsheets, and hoping they don't miss a deadline. That's wasted staff time and real legal exposure. Automated FOIA-ready exports fix both problems. The data's already structured correctly, the export runs on demand, and your staff handles the actual work instead of records assembly.

Here's a scenario we see constantly: sealed bids tracked in spreadsheets, open auctions on GovDeals, and someone manually reconciling the two at sale close It's operational drag and -- more importantly -- it's audit exposure. Two systems means two audit trails, two sets of inconsistencies, and double the chance something doesn't match. One platform that handles both modes with per-lot configuration is the right architecture. It's not complicated, it's just not how most agencies are set up today.

Big equipment pickup is where things fall apart operationally Winner goes dark, pickup window passes, now you've got a bulldozer sitting in a county yard generating storage costs and you're running a re-auction. Structured pickup scheduling with automated reminders -- instead of a chain of emails that may or may not get answered -- drops that failure rate materially. We've seen agencies go from 15-20% pickup failures to under 3% just by replacing email coordination with a structured workflow.

컴플라이언스

FOIA-Compliant Public Data Exposure

Non-sensitive auction data should be publicly queryable -- that's not optional, it's the point. We build FOIA-ready export formats directly into the data model so records requests don't require staff intervention. Routine requests get automated responses. The data's already there, already formatted correctly, already available.

Audit-Ready Transaction Logging

Every bid, every bidder action, every admin action, every sale transaction -- all of it logged immutably. And not just logged: exported in the formats that state auditors actually want to see. Not generic CSV dumps that an auditor in Sacramento or Austin has to reformat before they can use them. Actual audit reports in accepted formats, ready to hand over.

Sealed-Bid + Open-Bid Modes

Same platform, per-lot configuration. Sealed mode for contracts and restricted assets where bid integrity has to be cryptographically guaranteed. Open timed mode for high-volume surplus where competitive public bidding drives the price up. The mode is enforced at the lot level -- so you're not managing two systems or making exceptions manually.

Agency Pickup Logistics

Pickup scheduling built into the platform, not bolted on via email. Title transfer automation for vehicles. Certified removal coordination for heavy equipment. Post-pickup confirmation so the record's complete. The whole winner logistics workflow in one place -- replacing the email-and-spreadsheet process most agencies are actually running today.

Multi-Agency Tenancy

Counties with multiple departments, multi-agency state programs, consortiums across jurisdictions -- all of that works on one platform. Each tenant gets its own inventory, branding, and policies. But the bidder pool is shared, which matters: more registered bidders per auction means more competition, higher hammer prices, better outcomes for every agency on the platform.

Sales Tax and 1099 Automation

Per-jurisdiction sales tax collection baked in -- not handled manually, not outsourced to your accounting team to figure out. 1099 reporting for bidders who exceed federal thresholds runs automatically. Clean handoff to agency accounting with the data already structured correctly.

우리가 만드는 것

Eliminate 7–9% seller fees bleeding $140K–$180K annually from your surplus budget

Your agency's domain hosts the bidder experience — your name delivers the public service

Reclaim public visibility when your agency brand replaces third-party vendor logos

Configure pickup windows, payment methods, and eligibility restrictions at the lot level

Stop manually reconciling sealed-bid spreadsheets against separate open-auction platforms

Gate bidder access by verification tier: public, verified-entity, or dealer-only per lot

Cut pickup coordination failures from 15–20% down to under 3% with structured workflows

Encrypt sealed bids at submission — platform admins cannot view before bid-close event

End staff time wasted assembling FOIA exports from mismatched data sources

Publish hammer price, bidder ID, and asset disposition automatically as public record

Fix audit exposure from dual systems generating inconsistent transaction trails

Cross-promote consortium auctions so your bidders discover neighboring jurisdictions

우리의 프로세스

Agency Procurement Law Review

Before a line of code gets written, we dig into the applicable procurement statutes, lien laws, FOIA requirements, and audit requirements for that specific agency or consortium. Every state's a little different. Every agency type has its own wrinkles. That review shapes everything downstream.

Week 1-2

Platform Architecture and Compliance Design

The data model is built around audit-ready logging from day one -- not retrofitted later. FOIA export schema designed to match the actual request formats agencies receive. Sealed-bid encryption in the core architecture. Per-lot policy engine that enforces the rules without manual intervention.

Week 2-4

Build: Admin, Bidder UX, Compliance Engine

Full platform build: agency branding, bidder registration and verification flows, compliance engine, winner logistics workflow, and payment integration. This is the stage where everything that got planned in phases one and two becomes a working system.

Week 4-12

Pilot Auction and Audit Validation

We run a live pilot with real lots -- not a demo, an actual auction. Audit-log validation happens with the agency's own audit staff, not just our QA. And we test the FOIA export against a real records request format, because that's the only way to know it actually works.

Week 12-14

Full Rollout and Ongoing Support

Full rollout to the agency's complete asset portfolio. Ongoing retainer covers compliance updates as statutes change, feature development as needs evolve, and consortium expansion if other agencies want to join the platform.

Week 14+

Next.js 15SupabaseStripeTwilioAudit loggingFOIA exports

자주 묻는 질문

GovDeals나 Public Surplus 대신 맞춤형 잉여 플랫폼을 구축해야 하는 이유는 무엇입니까?

GovDeals는 기관에 판매당 7-9% 수수료를 부과합니다. 그리고 낙찰자에게 구매자 프리미엄까지 부과합니다 -- 따라서 기관은 양쪽 방향에서 마진을 잃습니다. 게다가 기관은 공공 기관이 자체 서비스를 운영하는 것이 아니라 GovDeals 세입자처럼 보입니다. 맞춤형 플랫폼은 이러한 수수료를 기관 예산 내에 유지하고, 기관의 이름을 플랫폼에 올리며, 기관이 누군가 다른 사람의 서비스 약관을 해결하는 대신 경매 정책을 실제로 제어하도록 합니다.

밀봉 입찰과 공개 입찰 모드를 처리합니까?

예 -- 동일 플랫폼에서 두 모드 모두 가능합니다. 밀봉 입찰은 계약 및 입찰 무결성이 법적으로 중요한 고가 제한 자산용입니다. 공개 정시 경매는 차량, 장비, 전자제품 및 광범위한 공개 참여를 원하는 기타 대량 잉여용입니다. 모드는 플랫폼 배포가 아니라 로트당 구성됩니다.

플랫폼이 감사 추적 가능합니까?

예. 모든 입찰, 입찰자 조치, 관리자 조치 및 판매 거래는 불변 기록으로 기록됩니다 -- 사후에 편집되거나 삭제되지 않습니다. 민감하지 않은 경매 데이터는 공개적으로 쿼리 가능합니다. FOIA 내보내기는 주(State) 감사관이 실제로 수용하는 형식으로 자동 실행됩니다. 덴버나 애틀란타의 감사관이 재형식화해야 하는 일반 CSV가 아닙니다.

기관 인수는 어떻게 작동합니까?

플랫폼은 픽업 스케줄링, 기관 픽업 창 조정, 인수 서류 -- 차량용 소유권 이전, 중장비용 공식 제거 문서 -- 및 픽업 후 확인을 처리합니다. 전체 체인이 하나의 워크플로우로 대부분의 기관이 현재 운영하고 있는 이메일 및 스프레드시트 프로세스를 대체합니다.

여러 기관이 하나의 플랫폼을 공유할 수 있습니까?

예. 여러 부서를 운영하는 카운티, 여러 기관이 있는 주(State), 관할권 간 컨소시엄 협약 -- 모두 작동합니다. 각 기관은 자체 인벤토리, 브랜드 및 정책이 있는 별도의 테넌트입니다. 하지만 입찰자 풀은 테넌트 간에 공유되어 경쟁을 증가시키고 플랫폼의 모든 기관에 대해 더 나은 가격을 제시합니다.

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