Company Profile: Educational & Institutional Purchasing Cooperative is a national member-owned buying cooperative that saves time and money and reduces complexity for 2,000+ educational and healthcare institutions by aggregating their purchasing power and knowledge to create competitively awarded contracts which lower costs, streamline the procurement process and meet state compliance standards.

More than just up-front pricing discounts, the Cooperative delivers lower life-cycle costs by:

• Streamlining the supply chain process, reducing time, cost and work for members and business partners.
• Leveraging the knowledge and experience of its member community to create contracts that meet applicable procurement standards, reducing the need to duplicate efforts among individual institutions.
• Conducting spend analysis across the membership to identify goods and services as well as suppliers that are the most meaningful in particular contracting areas.

The Cooperative’s extensive portfolio of national and regional contracts offers significant discounts and value in categories ranging from furniture and interior to computers and networking systems, electronics and peripherals, maintenance, scientific equipment, office supplies and transportation and freight.