Lead Partner

• Do you need to cut expenses?
• Does your organization spend a lot of money on products and services commonly purchased by other organizations as well?
• Is your procurement team stretched to the breaking point?
• Have you found that existing group purchasing and consortia programs don’t meet your needs?
• Is your organization looking for positive public relations stories at the local, state-wide, and national level?

Sourcing Office partners with leading institutions – what we call “Lead Partners” - across the country to develop customized group purchasing programs. Lead Partners provide input into the program design and agree to buy through the program when it is launched.

Sourcing Office is responsible for everything else. We develop the specifications, research potential suppliers, manage the competitive selection process, negotiate with the selected supplier, and coordinate the implementation of the program within your organization. In addition, Sourcing Office recruits other organizations to participate in the program development process and increase the total purchasing volume.

Click the appropriate heading on the right-hand side of this page to learn more about the Sourcing Office’s Lead Partner program, participant requirements, and case studies.