Our mission is to cooperatively serve our agency memberships through a continuous effort to explore and solve present and future purchasing needs.  AEPA is working on your behalf to secure multi-state volume purchasing contracts that have benefits that are measurable, cost-effective and continuously exceed our membership’s expectations.

Goals

• Leverage the purchasing power to benefit all schools regardless of size, with the ability to purchase at equal buying levels.
• Combine the potential needs of all schools to create an incentive to vendors to offer the best price and the highest quality product in the country.
• Stream line the bidding and purchasing process through a single locally and nationally recognized purchasing solicitation.
• Provide a single contract that is available statewide with one cooperative agency identified to function as the statewide contract facilitator and representative.
• Become the national purchasing option and solution for interested qualified customers and vendors.