Whenever you need a doctor or a hospital stay, just call your local Health Insurance
Purchasing Cooperative (HIPC).
TCPN is a national governmental
purchasing cooperative that has contracts with national vendors for commonly purchased products and services allowing entities to make compliant purchases at a valued rate.
The Foundation will provide technical assistance to a statewide farmers market management network cooperative and to a newly formed
purchasing cooperative for businesses in Appalachia.
The largest newspaper
purchasing cooperative, PAGE's supplier arrangement cover newsprint, ink, graphic arts materials, equipment, systems, and services for print publishing and new-media activities.
Historians suggest that the Burger King model developed from the fact that the purchasing problems in that system were spotlighted by the franchisee association, and ultimately acknowledged by Burger King Corporation to exist, and that this ultimately morphed into a franchisee-controlled and franchisor-supported
purchasing cooperative, in which virtually all domestic franchised and corporate units participate.
Communities Government Purchasing Alliance, the national
purchasing cooperative sponsored by NLC and other national organizations, is pleased to announce that its lead public agency, Maricopa County, Ariz., has awarded the Maintenance, Repair and Operating Supplies contract to The Home Depot, HD Supply Facilities Maintenance and Applied Industrial Technologies.
If the buying club metamorphoses into a permanent
purchasing cooperative association, the picture may look more complicated.
Many of these systems obviously do not benefit from the economies of scale and efficiencies present in the approved vendor and
purchasing cooperative models.
Freedom Newspapers has joined PAGE Co-op, Wayne, Pa., an equipment, supplies, and services
purchasing cooperative for privately held newspapers and groups.
Communities Government Purchasing Alliance, a national
purchasing cooperative sponsored by NLC and other national associations, recently announced several new contracts and services to help cities saving time and money.