• PURCHASING COOPERATIVES

Plano ISD uses cooperative contracts per Board Policy CH (Legal). Plano ISD may opt for the use of a cooperative purchasing organization to reduce administrative costs and to leverage the bulk buying power of multiple organizations.

Plano ISD is affiliated with the cooperative purchasing organization listed below.

The district is affiliated with:

• 1GPA
• Allied States Cooperative (Region 19)
• BuyBoard
• Central Texas Purchasing Alliance (CTPA)
• Choice Partners/Harris County Dept. of Education Cooperative
• Collin County Governmental Purchaser's Forum
• E&I Cooperative Services
• Educational Purchasing Cooperative of North Texas (EPCNT)
• Equalis Group
• Epic 6 (Region 6)
• GoodBuy Purchasing Cooperative
• Houston-Galveston Area Council (HGAC)
• OMNIA Partners
• PACE Purchasing Cooperative (Region 20)
• Regional Education Service Center 10
• Sourcewell
• Tarrant County Purchasing Cooperative
• Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (Texas Smartbuy)
• Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR)
• TIPS