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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 our primary collaborative buying business partner.
In addition to the contract suppliers listed below, Purchasing Services is
partnering with E&I in the
Higher Education Collaborate Sourcing Project
with other major institutions across the country. Purchasing Services evaluates each
newly awarded 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 as well as business
terms and conditions are favorable to the University.
Penn Enabled E&I Travel Contract Suppliers
Penn Enabled E&I Purchasing Contract Suppliers
Penn faculty and staff are also purchasing from the following E&I suppliers that are in
the BEN Buys approved supplier database as non-contract suppliers.
- Anthro
- Black Box
- Brayton (Steelcase Design Partner)
- Details (Steelcase Design Partner)
- Digital Intelligent Systems (DISYS)
- Gaylord Brothers
- Global Industries
- Henry Schein Incorporated (Athletic Products)
- Interface Americas Incorporated
- Sexauer
- Turnstone (Steelcase Design Partner)
- Xerox
Annual Purchases
Annual purchase spend with E&I suppliers has resulted in the University of
Pennsylvania ranking:
- #1 in E&I member purchases during CY2008 (excluding purchasing card spend)
with total purchases of $19,740,892, an increase of 10% versus calendar year
2007.
- #1 in E&I member purchases during CY2007 (excluding purchasing card spend)
with total purchases of $17,884,208, an increase of 58% versus calendar year
2006.
- #2 in E&I member purchases during CY2006 (excluding purchasing card spend)
with total purchases of $11,310,012, an increase of 408% versus calendar year
2005.
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