Press Releases

Unique cooperative contract delivers significant savings for E&I members on prescription drugs. August 7, 2019 – E&I Cooperative Services (E&I) announces its new agreement with SourceRx, a pharmacy benefits management (PBM) coalition created by Sourcing Alliance and Health Action Council. E&I members in the higher education and K-12 sectors that...

Finances and Member Awards presented at 2019 NAEP Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City, Mo.– E&I Cooperative Services (E&I) held its annual Stockholders’ Meeting during the 2019 National Association of Educational Procurement (NAEP) Annual Meeting on April 9, 2019 in Kansas City, MO. Year-end financial results for the...

Enterprise, Nikon Instruments, Inc., America To Go, and Staples honored for exceptional contributions. Enterprise was named E&I's Business Partner of the Year. Kansas City, Mo. – E&I Cooperative Services (E&I) presented its 11th annual Business Partner Awards during the National Association of Educational Procurement (NAEP) Annual Meeting on April 9th,...

New agreement offers discounted fitness equipment to E&I member institutions Vancouver, WA, March 28, 2019 – E&I Cooperative Services (E&I) and Core Health and Fitness (Core) have launched a new, competitively solicited contract for fitness equipment. In addition to Core’s portfolio of leading brands, education and fitness equipment, E&I members...

Coalition brings together higher education technology leaders to effect positive industry change December 18, 2018-E&I Cooperative Services (E&I), the member-owned, non-profit purchasing cooperative focused on education, recently announced the expansion of its National Coalition on Enterprise Systems & Services. The Coalition was established to bring together some of the best...

Leaders recognized by their peers at 2018 Council of the Great City Schools Chief Financial Officer Conference November 15, 2018– The 2018 Arthur Hanby Chief Procurement Officer Memorial Scholarship has been awarded to Gary Appenfelder, Director of Purchasing at Metro Nashville Public Schools, TN, and Tim Schmandt, Director of Procurement...

Jennifer Adling and Danny Kim bring educational procurement expertise to Cooperative November 13, 2018 –E&I Cooperative Services (E&I) has appointed two new members to its Board of Directors: Jennifer Adling and Danny Kim. These appointments each bring two decades of experience in educational procurement and finance, and will provide strategic...

November 5, 2018 – E&I Cooperative Services (E&I) announced the winners of its second annual Cloud Leadership Awards during a ceremony at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado. The awards recognize the achievements of higher education institutions that have made innovative use of cloud technology across several categories, including...

October 1, 2018 — E&I Cooperative Services (E&I) — the largest and most experienced member-owned, non-profit purchasing cooperative serving the needs of education in the United States — has selected D2L’s Brightspace as its new learning management system (LMS) following a highly competitive solicitation process that involved the industry’s top...