Horsham, PA, January 19, 2009, eSchoolMall™, the leading provider of online procurement solutions for schools, today announced that it has been awarded a contract by The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS) and Texas Arkansas Purchasing System (TAPS), sponsored by Region VIII Educational Service Center in Mt. Pleasant, TX. The contract brings eSchoolMall electronic procurement solutions to all constituent organizations in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas with pre-negotiated pricing and terms.
The TIPS cooperative conducted a competitive RFP process to find the best e-Commerce Online Procurement System for All TIPS Members. “eSchoolMall is very pleased to have been selected,” said Dan Corazzi, President of eSchoolMall. “Our proven e-Procurement solutions are now available to all TIPS members without the time and expense of a competitive solicitation.”
eSchoolMall’s Purchasing Solutions Suite and Sourcing Solutions Suite of products are immediately available under the awarded TIPS contract. For more information about the TIPS contract, please contact the eSchoolMall TIPS Sales Executive.
TIPS, The Interlocal Purchasing System (www.tips-usa.com), is sponsored by the Region VIII Education Service Center (ESC8) in Mt. Pleasant, Texas and is governed by the Region 8 ESC Board of Directors. The Interlocal Purchasing System is available for use by all public and private schools, colleges, universities, cities, counties, and other government entities in the states of Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. TIPS Awarded Vendors have submitted proposals from a posted RFP and are competitively awarded contracts accordingly. These Awarded Vendors have agreed to provide the best pricing, terms and conditions available to TIPS Members. The TIPS Program takes PRIDE in providing a purchasing coop where Awarded Vendors and Members both benefit. With a successful award, a vendor can expedite an order for a member because all purchasing requirements are completed during the RFP process. A school district or other TIPS Member can benefit from the cost savings of time and expense in competitively bidding each purchase.
eSchoolMall (www.eschoolmall.com), an ESM Solutions company, is the leading Internet-based procurement solution provider in the education market. The eSchoolMall solution set includes online procurement tools that connect schools with their preferred vendors. eSchoolMall has been recognized by Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 5000 as one of the fast growing privately held companies in the US and twice by Philadelphia 100 as one of the fastest growing, privately-held companies in the Greater Philadelphia region. eSchoolMall's core purpose is to apply technology, saving time and money that schools can reallocate to already under-funded student programs, to make it easier for schools to go about the business of education. eSchoolMall has over 4,000 educational entities using its electronic procurement solutions.
