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Global Best Practice - Use of Cooperative Contracts for Public Procurement

The phrase cooperative procurement refers to the process of combining requirements for two or more public procurement entities to get the benefits of volume purchasing, delivery and supply chain advantages, best practices, and the reduction of administrat…

Government Procurement Magazine - August/September 2018

The August/September 2018 issue of Government Procurement magazine's in-depth article "Cooperative Procurement's Evolution" focuses on the changing role of cooperative procurement. Public procurement's role within an organization becomes more strategic as…

Government Procurement Magazine - August/September 2019

The August/September 2019 issue of Government Procurement magazine features the in-depth article "New Approaches to Cooperative Contracting." This article discusses how the procurement method of cooperative contracting helps procurement professionals and …

Government Procurement Magazine - June/July 2019

The June/July 2019 issue of Government Procurement magazine delivers a sneak preview of the 2019 NIGP Forum, scheduled for August 25-28, 2019 in Austin, Texas. Meet the 2019 Forum speakers, review the schedule, and see a preview of the NIGP Forum 2019 exh…

Cooperative Purchasing Programs

Learn about joint solicitation and piggybacking for cooperative procurement and find helpful links to several participating cooperative purchasing programs.

Webinar Recordings

Past webinars provided by NIGP on a variety of topics specific to public procurement practice.

Position Paper: Cooperative Procurement: Great Value, Great Confusion

Cooperative procurement solutions offer resource challenged agencies the opportunity to improve the efficiency of their operations while saving money. This paper demonstrates how cooperative procurement is effective in saving taxpayer dollars, and what ma…

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