Case Study: City of Chicago creates a local PPE marketplace with Rheaply

City of Chicago launches PPE marketplace with Rheaply, completing 4,604 transactions in 3 months

The City of Chicago faced the urgent challenge of ensuring its small businesses and non-profits had access to affordable, reliable PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of its reopening strategy. To meet this need, the city turned to Rheaply to design and implement a local online marketplace.

Rheaply created a platform dedicated to the equitable distribution of PPE, which successfully fostered local business-to-business communication. The solution facilitated 4,604 transactions from 2,245 verified Chicago-based small businesses and non-profits between May and August of 2020, helping to reduce costs and provide visibility into resource distribution.

City of Chicago