Purchasing Cooperatives

PURCHASING COOPERATIVES

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Plano ISD uses cooperative contracts per Board Policy CH (Legal). Plano ISD may opt for the use of a cooperative purchasing organization to reduce administrative costs and to leverage the bulk buying power of multiple organizations.

Plano ISD is affiliated with the cooperative purchasing organizations listed below.

• 1GPA
• Allied States Cooperative (Region 19)
• BuyBoard
• Central Texas Purchasing Alliance (CTPA)
• Choice Partners/Harris County Dept. of Education Cooperative
• Collin County Governmental Purchaser's Forum
• E&I Cooperative Services
• Educational Purchasing Cooperative of North Texas (EPCNT)
• Equalis Group
• Epic 6 (Region 6)
• GoodBuy Purchasing Cooperative
• Houston-Galveston Area Council (HGAC)
• OMNIA Partners
• PACE Purchasing Cooperative (Region 20)
• Regional Education Service Center 10
• Sourcewell
• Tarrant County Purchasing Cooperative
• Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (Texas Smartbuy)
• Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR)
• TIPS