Cooperative Purchasing

Ever since the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, people across the globe have gained access to seemingly endless amounts of information. Cell phones, apps, and other convenient technologies [...]

In 2023, the education industry will face myriad challenges, including labor shortages and employee burnout in its food service programs. This, in turn, will affect student satisfaction. Children [...]

New breakthroughs combining robotics and electric power tools for campus landscaping are coming just in time. More new ordinances are regulating that landscape and turf maintenance activities [...]

Gone are the days of harried teachers elbowing each other for turns in the copier room. Today’s next-generation photocopiers in schools are more valuable than ever to educators. In fact, [...]

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, K-12 schools were experimenting with purchasing and allocating 1-to-1 devices across their student populations. Districts used the devices as an attractive [...]

The worst thing about catastrophes is their unpredictability; it can be impossible to determine when or where a natural disaster might strike. However, school districts can prepare for the worst [...]

By Ted Witt, AEPA Board Member If your school district ordered a set of Chromebook computers and was told to wait in line, or if your purchasing agent noticed a ream of copy paper costing upwards [...]

Buying agencies demanding high standards of ethics from their purchasing cooperatives need not look further than AEPA. By Ted Witt, AEPA Board Member School district purchasing agents — and every [...]

By Thomas Kim, AEPA Oversight Committee Chair School heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems have moved from a behind-the-scenes role to a front-of-house star now that students [...]

By Ken Swink, AEPA Oversight Committee Chair Commercial roofs don’t and can’t last forever. Sooner or later, your school is going to embark on a roof replacement project. However, with proper [...]