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Governments hand out $3.7 trillion to vendors and suppliers of goods and services, yet few are vetted. That why David Yarkin created Procurated as the procurement "Yelp."

Canary seeks to empower both state governments in evaluating suppliers, and suppliers in evaluating their performance.

Massachusetts is showing the way by going to the end users of the products and services governments buy. It’s good for suppliers as well, and produces better results for everyone.

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David Yarkin, former Pennsylvania chief procurement officer who has since created his own consulting firm in Washington, regarding how difficult it can be for state and local governments to know about the private contractors they may work with. Yarkin’s online government-vendor review platform, Procurated, allows government agency staff to rate the services they buy from private contractors, making it like Yelp for government. (The Philadelphia Inquirer — Dec. 7, 2021)

A former chief procurement officer has raised $10 million in venture capital to expand Procurated, his online government vendor review platform, which asks state and local staff to rate services from private contractors.