Contracts


Proctorio

Proctorio's services include automated or live online proctoring, identity verification, originality verification, content protection, browser lock down, and detailed reporting. Through end-to-end security, Proctorio's suite of features validates student identities, authenticates originality, and ensures the integrity of your online exams. Proctorio's tools make up the digital toolbox within your assessment platform to ensure your online assessment's integrity. Requiring no personal identifiable information, and using Zero-Knowledge encryption, Proctorio ensures that test-taker data is kept safe.


  • Tiered contract pricing exclusively for E&I members
  • Fully automated and live remote proctoring services available as needed
  • Dedicated partner success managers (PSMs) assist members with training, onboarding, and scheduling go-live date
  • Pilot program is available for 1-2 months
  • Seamless integration with your LMS through LTI, API, deep integration, or the Verify Login feature
  • Single sign-on with no additional logins or personally identifiable information needed
  • Designed for unrivaled learner privacy, system security, scalability, and reliability, achieving FERPA, FIPPA, COPPA, CCPA, and GDPR compliance
  • Plagiarism detection services available for Canvas LMS users
  • Only remote proctoring system offering Zero-Knowledge encryption, protecting all student data in transit and storage
  • 24/7/365 support for members and students

JAGGAER

JAGGAER's on-demand procurement software and Supplier Network deliver the suppliers you need in one centralized hub, enabling you to source products through one comprehensive system. As usage increases, you receive more data to improve your eProcurement experience and generate sustainable future savings. With modular procurement solutions, JAGGAER delivers a completely customized solution based on your institution's needs. By augmenting existing procurement processes with automation and supplier enablement, JAGGAER helps improve customer service while reducing costs.


  • E&I members can enable all E&I suppliers at no charge
  • Substantial discounts off list price for all licensed JAGGAER modules
  • Includes entire suite of JAGGAER eProcurement modules
  • Access to the Spend Director strategic procurement solutions platform
  • Completely customized solution based on your institution's specific needs
  • Existing procurement processes augmented with automation solutions and supplier enablement

Specialty Underwriters

Specialty Underwriters has provided equipment maintenance management services to higher ed and K-12 institutions, government bodies, financial institutions, pharmaceutical, and bio-tech organizations since 1982. SU is dedicated to analyzing the equipment maintenance needs of organizations to uncover opportunities to generate tangible hard and soft dollar savings, increase awareness of service levels from vendors, and lower administration costs – helping reduce and improve the workload of employees.


  • Cost reduction off existing maintenance contracts
  • Consolidation of equipment maintenance contracts (lab, IT, office automation)
  • One point of contact through TELESERVE
  • Use your vendor of choice
  • Flexibility to add or remove anytime
  • Online reporting
  • In-house reimbursement
  • SU pays vendors directly

Lowe’s

Lowes is dedicated to saving E&I members time and money with the purchasing solutions you need and the industry expertise you expect. Finding cost-effective solutions that ensure the highest standard of quality is at the forefront of their mission. Lowe’s Pro Supply is your one-stop source for maintenance and renovation supplies across higher education, K–12, and student housing facilities. With fast delivery available nationwide through dedicated warehouses, they provide an extensive inventory of MRO products in job-lot quantities to keep your projects moving. Through the broader Lowe’s store network, you also gain access to more than 40,000 additional products — including paint, lumber, drywall, and tools — so you’ll always have exactly what you need to get the job done. Whatever the season, Lowe’s specialized Student Housing support team is ready to help you secure Pro-grade products in bulk for fast, efficient turns.


  • Year end rebates based on spending tier
  • Member volume discounts on eligible quotes over $2,000 in-store or online. Ideal for lumber, appliances, building materials, electrical, etc.
  • 20% Instant Member paint discount after paint annual qualifying spend reaches $3,000
  • Save an additional 5% in-store or on-line by utilizing a Lowe’s Commercial Account (LCA) or our Lowe’s Pro Supply (LPS) in-house account (You save 5% on eligible purchases when you use your LPS Purchase Card in-store or Lowes.com)  
  • Access to over 1,700 stores, warehouses, and distribution centers
  • Stores are open late and on weekends for last-minute needs
  • Online purchasing with fast delivery or in-store pick-up 
  • Punchout integration capabilities with Ariba, JAGGAER, Coupa, OpsTechnology, and more
  • Shop millions of products in-store and online from trusted brands 


American Express

American Express is committed to helping organizations manage spend. Their entire B2B suite of payment solutions, including corporate card, purchasing card, vPayment, buyer initiated payments, and AP automation helps E&I members improve payment processes.


  • Drive efficiency by reducing paper checks and transitioning to electronic payments
  • Closed loop network provides value through AMEX's direct relationships between buyers and suppliers
  • No personal liability through corporate card programs
  • Integrated seamlessly into current AP solutions and payment programs
  • AMEX's Supplier Enablement Team facilitates the supplier onboarding process
  • Corporate card products free up cash that you can put back into your business
  • Buyer initiated payments allows you to select the amount and date of the transaction, helping reduce uncertainties about payment timing and improve efficiencies
  • vPayment assigns a single-use account number to each transaction, sets a specific payment amount, date range, and transaction details to help control spend and facilitate reconciliation processes
  • Simplify the day-to-day processes for everyday purchases with corporate cards, which include monthly detailed reports with purchasing information to help track spend
  • Generous rebate program based on total E&I membership spend under this contract

Complete Book and Media Supply

Complete Book & Media Supply provides the largest offering of online publications in the world specifically for the academic, technical, scientific, and corporate markets. This agreement grants access to their complete catalog of products -- over 18 million books, subscriptions, and media titles.


  • Access over 18 million books and media titles
  • Subscription management services for journals, periodicals, and subscriptions
  • Superior reporting capabilities configurable to your institution's requirements
  • Additional discounting on bulk orders (25 or more of the same title)
  • Dedicated customer service and web support
  • Easily accommodates tax exempt status member institutions
  • Exclusive member rebates provided by E&I based on individual member annual purchases

Pitney Bowes | Shipping & Mailing

Pitney Bowes has been helping campuses for over 100 years. From remote mailing and shipping software to contactless delivery options and presorting services, Pitney Bowes offers a host of ways to modernize your processes. Their team of higher education experts helps members navigate the complexities of mailing and shipping to ensure success today, tomorrow, and in the future.


  • Smart Locker Solutions: ParcelPoint is a self-service delivery innovation designed and built to provide a superior, contactless experience, eliminating the need for interaction between people to ensure a safe, secure, and convenient package pickup.
  • Package Receiving Solutions: SendSuite® helps you track, monitor, and deliver with confidence, simplifying your processes with receiving software. Available in the cloud or on-premises, it is designed to provide accurate state and complete visibility of packages as they move across your organization with a simple barcode scan.
  • Outbound Shipping Solutions: SendPro® Enterprise streamlines your shipping operation and creates a tailored process for your campus. This intuitive multi-carrier shipping software is designed to take shipping operations to the next level in cost management, process efficiency, and compliance, and offers a single source to help anyone across campus make smarter shipping decisions.

Anthony James Partners

With over 500 large-scale technology products successfully completed for high-profile collegiate and professional stadiums, arenas, entertainment facilities, and full campus technology projects, AJP's proven end-to-end solutions simplify processes, maximize product value, and produce significant financial savings that far outweigh the consulting fee.


  • Access to Anthony James Partners's consulting services and technology disciplines
  • Evaluate and present design possibilities
  • Model financial options
  • Create unique and custom assets and AV systems
  • Manage procurement or support the process with documentation
  • Provide hands-on guidance through negotiations
  • Maintain strict oversight of construction to ensure full compliance through to completion
  • AJP does not accept compensation or commission from product manufacturers, integrators, or suppliers

PaymentWorks

PaymentWorks protects organizations from business payments fraud and ensures compliance with increasingly intense regulatory requirements and scrutiny. Through their platform, members automate the collection and verification of business identity information for all their payees, allowing for the continuous monitoring and updating of this information while thwarting efforts to hijack existing vendor records and redirect payments.


  • New and existing payees can self-manage changes and updates
  • Automated verifications, including TIN, address, and bank account ownership
  • Ensure compliance, Uniform Guidance
  • Interface with any ERP system
  • Fraud prevention, enhanced security, and risk mitigation
  • Reduce costs by shifting from checks to ACH payments
  • 8 weeks implementation = quick time-to-value with minimal IT resources
  • Competitive E&I member pricing

A&M

With a track record in recovery and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, governance, cost control, and operational excellence services, A&M is the leading partner supporting education clients by generating innovative and effective solutions to complex, mission-critical challenges, delivered with maximum efficiency and empowered by the best in human and technological innovation. Understanding the unique mission and cultural and regulatory context of education, A&M provides fact-based consulting services grounded in delivering objective analyses, actionable recommendations, and tangible improvements. They deploy senior, battle-tested advisors who will roll up their sleeves in support of fundamental decision-making, transformation, and change. 


  • Takes a different approach to deliver lasting results: Hands-on, Experienced Leaders, Sense of Urgency, Bias for Action, Objective and Data-driven - That is the A&M Way. See the A&M Global Services Overview for more info on differentiators and integrated services. 
  • Former education CFOs, COOs, CROs, Principals, and seasoned domain leaders and consultants apply cross-sector insights to deliver tailored, data-driven solutions, transformative results, and sustainable value within the education ecosystem.
  • Delivers a full suite of integrated advisory and consulting services including: strategy, operational excellence, benchmarking, partnerships, student experience and enrollment, economic development, capital planning and executive coaching; corporate financial, tax, risk and audit, business valuation, grant management and compliance; and other value added services like financial crisis management planning, scenario planning and stress testing, implementation of new accounting standards, digital / AI transformation, and ESG. See the E&I Service Area to A&M Service Description Map for more details about in-scope A&M services. 
  • Can embed experts in leadership roles such as interim CEO, CFO, COO, CRO, CIO, CTO or CAIO to drive transformation from within.
  • With 30+ years of strategic consulting experience across early childhood, K–12, and higher education, A&M showcases proven results from engagements with small to mega public and private universities, academic medical centers/university health systems, K-12 districts, state educational agencies and the institutional and philanthropic organizations which support them. See A&M’s Management Financial Consulting and Advisory Case Study Collection for more detail 
  • Offers fixed-fee, performance-based and time & materials pricing models, and a free ½ day working session with the Member’s board or executive team to formulate strategies regarding critical problems or initiatives to help members assess needs and explore tailored solutions.