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Educational & Institutional Cooperative Service (E&I)
A University Strategic Alliance Partner for Collaborative Buying Services
The Educational & Institutional
Cooperative Service (E&I), the only
collaborative buying
organization dedicated to higher education, is a Purchasing Services
strategic alliance business partner. Working
collaboratively with E&I enables Purchasing Services to aggregate Penn's
annual purchase volume with other peer institutions in order to maximize contracting
and cost savings opportunities, increase its capacity and results without added cost
to the institution, and redeploy staff resources to higher-yield opportunities.
Contracting Initiatives
Purchasing Services staff members participate in various sourcing projects and
commodity teams that have the potential to benefit the University.
Purchasing Services evaluates each newly announced E&I competitively bid contract
for its competitiveness to existing Penn pricing. Purchasing Services will adopt
and implement each new E&I competitively bid contract when the E&I contract
supplier pricing and or business terms and conditions are favorable to the University.
In addition to contracting opportunities, the E&I strategic alliance enables
Purchasing Services to add E&I contract suppliers to the
Penn Marketplace, at no cost to the
University, as a result of E&I's strategic business relationship with
SciQuest Incorporated.
The following E&I contract suppliers have been enabled in the Penn Marketplace.
Additional E&I contract suppliers used by Penn faculty and staff include:
- Anthro
- Black Box Network Services
- Brayton International
- Cleaning Technologies Group
- Details (a Steelcase Design Partner)
- Gaylord
- Metro (a Steelcase Design Partner)
- Sexauer
- Turnstone (a Steelcase Company)
- Vecta (a Steelcase Design Partner)
- Xerox Corporation
Contracting Initiatives
In calendar year 2007, the University of Pennsylvania ranked #1 in member purchases
(excluding purchasing card spend), with total
purchases of $17,884,208, an increase of 58% versus calendar year 2006.
In calendar year 2006, the University of Pennsylvania ranked #2 in member purchases,
with total purchases of $11,310,012, an increase of 408% versus calendar year 2005.
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