Cooperative purchasing contract
A cooperative purchasing contract is a contract one agency or purchasing group competes and awards that other public agencies can then buy from without running their own bid.
On a real bid
Agencies use cooperative contracts to save time, and vendors on them can sell to many agencies from one award. State contracts and national purchasing groups are the most common.
Whether an agency can use a given contract depends on its own purchasing rules and on the contract's terms.
The longer read: Cooperative purchasing contracts, explained
Where Capveon reads it
Add a column asking whether other agencies may buy from the resulting contract, and Capveon answers it on every bid with the page.
