Big News for Government Procurement! B2Gnow Strengthens Platform with NIGP Code Integration
Phoenix, July 24, 2025 – For over 25 years, B2Gnow has been dedicated to empowering public and private organizations to achieve compliance, ensure transparency, and simplify reporting. It’s in that spirit that we’re thrilled to announce a significant enhancement to our platform: we’ve integrated the National Institute for Government Purchasing’s (NIGP) Commodity/Services Codes directly into our system.
As an authorized sublicensee of the NIGP Code, we’ve incorporated the complete library — more than 9,000 five-digit codes and 40,000 seven-digit codes— directly into the B2Gnow platform. This integration provides organizations, along with their vendors and contractors, with powerful new tools to drive greater efficiency, accuracy, and compliance across procurement and reporting processes.
Why This Integration is a Game-Changer for Procurement
NIGP codes are the universally recognized standard for classifying goods and services within public procurement. They are critical for precise vendor identification, accurate spending analysis, and, crucially, for achieving and proving compliance with essential small and diverse business utilization goals. With these embedded codes, managing complex yet essential procurement processes becomes notably easier and more precise for any organization utilizing the B2Gnow system.
As John Garay, B2Gnow Vice President of Product, explains: “We’re pleased to bring integrated NIGP code support directly into the B2Gnow platform. This enhancement gives our customers access to the most complete and current commodity code library, helping them more easily identify the right vendors, streamline outreach, and strengthen compliance and reporting efforts. It’s another step forward in helping agencies meet their small, local, and diverse business program goals with greater accuracy and efficiency.”
What This Means for Agencies Using B2Gnow
For agencies leveraging B2Gnow with an active NIGP subscription, you’ll immediately gain full, interactive access to the complete 5- and 7-digit NIGP code libraries right within your B2Gnow system. This translates into some compelling advantages for your procurement operations:
- Precise Vendor and Contract Classification: Eliminate ambiguity! You can now classify businesses with pinpoint accuracy based on the specific goods and services they offer. This is crucial for accurate certification tracking (e.g., DBE, MBE, WBE) and ensures the optimal matching of opportunities with qualified contractors.
- Streamlined Reporting and Goal Tracking: Agencies can set and monitor participation goals by industry category with unprecedented accuracy. B2Gnow will leverage these integrated codes to precisely track the utilization of certified firms within specific categories, which is vital for meeting various compliance requirements.
- Strengthened Compliance Verification: When prime contractors report subcontractor activity, the B2Gnow system will now meticulously check that industry codes align with the scope of work. This proactive flagging of inconsistencies ensures that firms are only counted toward goals when performing work within their certified areas, boosting integrity and accountability across your projects and ensuring compliance with project-specific contracting requirements.
- Improved Vendor Discovery and Outreach: With structured, searchable NIGP codes now attached to vendor records, agency users can more easily identify qualified vendors for specific scopes of work, especially when sourcing certified firms in niche or hard-to-find categories. This boosts outreach efficiency and supports stronger Good Faith Effort documentation.
- Greater Data Consistency Across Systems: Utilizing standardized NIGP codes improves data alignment between procurement, certification, and financial systems. This not only reduces manual entry errors but also simplifies integrations and downstream reporting, making your agency’s data cleaner, more connected, and more actionable.
Accessing the Power of NIGP Codes within B2Gnow
Even if an organization does not currently have an active NIGP subscription, they will still benefit from an already improved B2Gnow system. Users will retain the ability to search for products, services, and suppliers, view already assigned NIGP codes, and filter vendors based on existing classifications. It’s also important to note that individual vendors are not required to have a subscription; they can freely select NIGP codes to register themselves as providers of specific goods or services within the B2Gnow system, making it easier for them to connect with relevant opportunities.
Driving More Efficient Procurement with B2Gnow
This technology enhancement represents a significant step in the evolution of procurement software. By embedding the industry-standard NIGP codes directly into our platform, we provide agencies with powerful new tools to accurately classify vendors, streamline reporting, and ensure robust compliance. This will profoundly enhance efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across public and private sector contracting, particularly within the complex landscape of construction contracting, empowering agencies to optimize their purchasing processes and achieve their critical goals with greater ease.
The addition of NIGP codes to B2Gnow reflects our ongoing commitment to helping customers simplify procurement, improve data accuracy, and achieve compliance goals through seamless support for third-party coding systems. In addition to NIGP, B2Gnow supports both NAICS and SIC libraries, as well as custom coding structures used by agencies across North America, delivering consistency, flexibility, and powerful reporting across the entire vendor and contract lifecycle.
To learn more about how B2Gnow streamlines compliance in vendor management, prevailing wage labor compliance, and grant management, visit b2gnow.com.