Public Purchasing Vehicles (NASPO, PEPPM, GSA)

About PEPPM: The PEPPM Technology Bidding and Purchasing Program offers a broad range of bid awarded technology products to meet your needs. Each year, previously awarded product line contracts expire, and most product lines have been rebid and have new contract awards. Also, some new product lines have been bid and awarded. That means you can easily buy from hundreds of technology product lines using PEPPM, the premier national cooperative program in the country.

The educational agencies soliciting the bids for their respective jurisdiction have individually awarded bids in their respective states, based on their own applicable statutes. However, the Agencies come together nationally for the purpose of aggregating their demand for product and their buying power. In so doing, they have coordinated the bidding process with each other, and have centrally evaluated the bid responses. After awards, they coordinate on publicizing the contracts to school districts and other eligible agencies.

About NASPO ValuePoint: The NASPO ValuePoint Cooperative Purchasing Organization (formerly WSCA-NASPO) provides the highest standard of excellence in public cooperative contracting. By leveraging the leadership and expertise of all states with the purchasing power of their public entities, NASPO ValuePoint delivers best value, reliable, competitively sourced contracts. Since 1993 NASPO ValuePoint has been the cooperative purchasing arm of NASPO (the National Association of State Procurement Officials) encouraging, fostering and guiding the nation’s most significant public contract cooperative. NASPO ValuePoint is a unified, nationally focused cooperative aggregating the demand of all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the organized US territories, their political subdivisions and other eligible entities spurring best value, innovation and competition in the marketplace.

About GSA: The GSA Schedule Contract is a vehicle that is used to sell to the U.S. government. Businesses, non-profit organizations, and educational institutions can obtain a GSA Schedule Contract to sell products or services  to government customers. GSA Schedule Contracts contain pre-negotiated pricing, terms, and conditions which streamline the government sales process. While GSA Schedule Contracts are primarily used to sell to federal agencies, in certain cases they can also be used to sell to state and local government.