Send us a list — typed, pasted, or a photo of the shelf — and we send back a formal quote the same business day, priced and formatted to attach straight to a requisition.
Four steps, and the first one takes about a minute.
In most cases, yes. Plenty of California schools hold their own purchasing authority and raise their own purchase order — the site secretary or office manager sends the list and issues the PO without the district office being involved at all.
Some districts do require a final sign-off from the business office, and a few do all the ordering centrally. All three arrangements work here — the approval, where there is one, happens in your own system exactly as it does today; we quote, and you issue the purchase order. Tell us which one is yours and your portal says the right thing to your staff instead of inventing an approval step you do not have to get.
If it is a consumable a school buys with district money and it is not food or pharmaceutical, ask us. We source from authorized distributors only — never a marketplace listing.
Send the photo. A screen grab of an item on a supplier's site, a picture of the shelf label, or a photo of the empty box all work, and they are often faster and more accurate than typing a description. We price from exactly what you send. Signed-in schools can attach photos to a list directly in the portal; anyone else can email them to joey@smartgovsupply.com.
The same business day for a list sent before mid-afternoon. If a line needs a distributor to come back to us on stock or lead time, we send the rest and say so on that line rather than holding the whole quote.
Everything for a standard vendor packet, in one email:
Request the vendor packet and it arrives by email, or call 562-265-3813.
Smart Gov Supply LLC is a small business and is registered in SAM. We do not hold an 8(a), HUBZone, women-owned or service-disabled veteran-owned certification, and we do not hold a GSA Schedule. If your solicitation requires one of those, we are not the right vendor for it and we will tell you so rather than waste your time — and we will say the same thing on the phone.
All of it. We are in Anaheim and we deliver statewide — Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura, Kern, Fresno, Sacramento, Santa Clara, Alameda and every county between. County offices of education and charter schools are set up exactly the same way a district is.
Every school we work with gets a portal at smartgovsupply.com. It holds every quote we have sent that school, the status of anything in progress, and the district's W-9 — so nothing has to be dug out of an inbox when a requisition is due. Teachers can send lists to the office through it, the office combines them into one order, and a purchase order number can be recorded against a quote so both sides are looking at the same record.
There is no password. You enter your work email and we send a six-character code.