Purchasing Cooperatives

A purchasing cooperative allows entities to pool together volumes and benefit with cost savings on products and services, save on administrative costs, access more products and service contracts. Aldine may make use of contracts which have been already bid by co-ops. Aldine is affiliated with the co-ops listed below via inter-local agreements and/or annual co-op memberships.

• 1Governmental Procurement Alliance (1GPA)
• Allied States Cooperative (ASC)- Region 19
• Buy Board (TASB)
• Central Texas Purchasing Alliance- CTPA
• Choice Partners Cooperative (CPC)
• Educational Purchasing Interlocal Cooperative at Region 6 (EPIC6)- Region 6
• Equalis Group
• Goodbuy Purchasing Cooperative – Region 2
• Harris County Department of Education (HCDE)
• Harris Galveston Area Council (HGAC)
• OMNIA Partners- Public Sector
  • National IPA- Region 4 (TCPN)
  • National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance (NCPA)
  • U.S. Communities
• Purchasing Association of Cooperative Entities (PACE)- Region 20
• School Purchasing Alliance
• Sheriffs’ Association of Texas
• Sourcewell
• Southeast Texas Purchasing Cooperative (SETEXAS)- Region 5
• Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts-Texas Procurement and Support Services (TPASS)
  • Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR)
  • Texas Multiple Award Schedule- TXMAS
  • Texas SmartBuy
• The Inter-local Purchasing System (TIPS) -Region 8
• U.S. General Services Administration – GSA