Consortia and GPO Partners
Our buying consortium partners are associations or groups that orchestrate group purchasing contracts on behalf of their members with a common set of purchasing needs, suppliers, goods or services. These consortia leverage their SciQuest relationship to offer a more strategic procurement environment to the members of their associations. When consortium pricing is enabled through the SciQuest solution, customer spending with vendors contracted through the buying consortia increases while the end customers experienced buying power and significant cost savings. SciQuest’s market presence and customer base increase proportionally.
Educational & Institutional Cooperative Purchasing (E&I)
As a premier group purchasing organization for higher education, Educational & Institutional Cooperative Purchasing (E&I) uses the combined purchasing power of more than 1,600 member institutions to lower costs on a wide range of products and services. E&I provides members with access to a diverse portfolio of high quality national and regional contracts from best-in-class suppliers, like SciQuest. The competitively awarded SciQuest national contract provides E&I member institutions access to SciQuest’s on-demand suite of eprocurement and supplier enablement solutions without the complexity of a lengthy request for proposal (RFP) process. In addition to attaining SciQuest at a highly competitive rate, members receive free access to a variety of E&I contracts through SciQuest’s online shopping platform.
Provista
Provista is a leading supply chain improvement company providing group purchasing options for more than 15,000 universities and colleges, hospitals, medical facilities, health care systems and corporations nationwide. Using a continuous portfolio review, Provista ensures customers constant access to low prices on the products and services used daily. Provista employs a competitive contract process using purchasing scale and leverage to achieve stronger negotiation power on behalf of their members. Through Novation, Provista’s supply contracting company, Provista provides customers with the most competitive, extensive portfolio available. Together, Provista and Novation provide over $35 billion in combined annual purchasing power. Provista members who are also SciQuest customers receive access to a Provista contracts through their own private, SciQuest marketplace, thereby making it easier for members to utilize and get value from Provista contracts.
