🗸 Turnkey and Ready-to-Use
🗸 Included at No Cost as Part of Your E&I Membership
🗸 Diverse Portfolio of E&I Contracts
🗸 Available Across Your Entire Campus – Including Procurement, Departments, and End Users
🗸 Flexibility to Customize
Immediate Access: VERVE can be accessed as a public marketplace, so your end users can log in immediately and start shopping. Turnkey with Option to Customize: E&I sets up and manages your school’s instance of VERVE – you can remain 100% hands-off or elect to assume some level of administrative control. Comprehensive Portfolio Focused on Education: With contracts developed specifically for education, VERVE is the go-to destination for all users; search for everything you need from technology and MRO to office supplies, scientific equipment, and more. Great Pricing, Terms, and Conditions: All enabled E&I contracts include pre-established pricing, terms, and conditions. Plus, the flexibility to add your own member-specific E&I supplier contracts. | Easy Ordering: Your users will love VERVE – it’s faster, easier, and more fulfilling to purchase through a one-stop eProcurement solution and it helps you track purchases in one place. Cross-Catalog Search: With full federated search capabilities across supplier catalogs, you can find exactly what you need, when you need it. Ordering Flexibility: Purchases can be made immediately with p-cards. There is also the flexibility to use purchase orders, quote requests, and RFIs. Integration and Control: You can have basic administrative rights to manage approval workflows and can punchout from existing ERP or eProcurement systems at low or no cost. Branding: Add your school logo and a customized welcome message to your unique instance of VERVE. |
VERVE by E&I is an online service that delivers an easy and intuitive eProcurement experience across your entire campus. Provided at no cost to members, VERVE is a secure and controlled environment in which users can buy from a large number of E&I suppliers using p-cards or purchase orders, all in one place.
100% turnkey and managed by E&I, VERVE delivers a convenient, efficient shopping experience to your departmental buyers and end users, while enabling your school to drive cost savings and significantly improve spend management.
Think of it as eProcurement as a service! VERVE is pre-loaded with E&I contracts so your users across campus can start shopping in just minutes.
VERVE is a great, hassle-free option for many schools, and it can be used even more strategically by some schools.
Members looking to take that more strategic approach can register as an Enrolled Account. By assuming some light administrative responsibilities, Enrolled Accounts have access to significant additional functionality, including the ability to add custom contracts, enable purchase orders (POs) and RFQ, and utilize workflows and approvals.
Complete the form below to see which version of VERVE is right for your institution – either the turnkey instance or an Enrolled Account, which delivers more functionality and control still at no cost.
The following contracts are currently enabled on VERVE, categorized by those that have full punchout capabilities and those that accept requests for quotes.
New contracts and functionality are continually being added; please check back for updates.
AGATI
Airgas*
America To Go*
Avantor, delivered by VWR
AVI-SPL
B&H Photo Video*
CDW-G*
Complete Book and Media Supply
Connection® Public Sector Solutions
Demco Inc.
Falcon/Thonet
Ferguson
Filtration Concepts
Grainger*
Guest Supply
Henry Schein, Inc. – Dental Supplies*
Hightower
Humanscale Corporation
IVCi
Jonti-Craft
LabRepCo
Lowe’s*
Medline
Mohawk
Patterson Dental*
PHCBi
PPG Paints
Staples
Staples Promotional Products
Waters Corporation
American Education Supply
Anthony Travel
B&H Photo Video*
Carahsoft Technology Corp.
Carrier Enterprise
Columbia Advisory Group (CAG)
Connection® Public Sector Solutions
ENA
eShipGlobal
Ferguson
Global Furniture Group
GovDeals
Guest Supply
Henry Schein, Inc. – Dental Supplies*
Hightower
Hilco Streambank
Huron
Humanscale
Jonti-Craft
Legend Labs
Mohawk
Moving Minds
Mythics, Inc.
Nikon Instruments, Inc.
Nouveau
PaymentWorks
PureAir
Schindler Elevator Corporation
Slalom, LLC
Southwest Contract, Inc.
Staples Promotional ProductsÂ
Standard Textile
Transformations Furniture
United Rentals
Vesta Modular
Wheels Labs
Xerox
* Suppliers marked with an asterisk are not available in the public instance of VERVE but can be accessed with an ‘Enrolled Account.’ An Enrolled Account simply means you designate an administrator to manage some light system functionality on the back end.
To learn more about the benefits of having an Enrolled Account (or to find out if your institution is already enrolled)Â VERVEadmin@eandi.org.
VERVE is a no-cost online marketplace for education where many of E&I’s contracts are pre-loaded and available in a secure, controlled purchasing environment. VERVE is available to all E&I members as part of their E&I membership.
No, there is no cost for using the solution.
VERVE is available to all E&I members, including higher education and K-12. VERVE can be used by procurement staff, faculty, department heads, end users, and other campus stakeholders.
P-card orders are accepted by default in VERVE. Institutions can also enable the ability to use purchase orders and RFQs at no additional cost.
VERVE is a turnkey eProcurement service managed entirely by E&I. Think of it as an open marketplace in which all members get the same great experience. Members looking to be more strategic simply need to designate an administrator, who will manage some aspects on the back end. It’s a really light lift but it allows for customization and many key benefits, including:
Yes. VERVE is most powerful when you designate an admin to manage some back-end aspects of the system, but we understand this is not always possible. The turnkey version of VERVE allows your users to register for and shop with p-cards as they would any e-commerce site. E&I manages all administrative aspects for you on the back end.
VERVE is preloaded with E&I contracts. This means all users are accessing E&I standard national pricing. Institutions can also enable member-specific pricing on E&I contracts. We view this as a compelling reason to joining VERVE at the institutional level.
95% of all contracts in VERVE are competitively solicited, and approximately 5% are negotiated. VERVE features filters that enable users to sort contracts by type.
EqualLevel is E&I’s technology partner. EqualLevel’s applications are developed with the goal of protecting customer credit card data in accordance with PCI DSS standards and all customer information is handled in a compliant manner. VERVE is built using an EqualLevel SaaS application and is PCI compliant.
Customer’s credit card data is never stored in VERVE. All credit card data inbound to EqualLevel applications are intercepted, encrypted and stored in a secure vault, hosted on Amazon AWS. Only the tokens generated in the process are accessible to the EqualLevel applications. On outbound transactions to the customer vendors, the credit card data is retrieved from the vault on the fly and transmitted to the vendor in compliance with the cXML standard.
E&I and EqualLevel do not, under any circumstance, store PCI relevant data, including card validation code (CVV, CVV2, CVC2, CID, CAV2, etc.), PIN, or magnetic stripe data.
Yes. You can punch out from your existing eProcurement platform to VERVE to quickly and easily enable additional contracts in a secure controlled environment.
EqualLevel, Sponsored by E&I is an innovative, born-in-the-cloud P2P platform, licensed and managed directly by any member institution looking for a flexible, customizable eProcurement experience. Because the solution is sponsored by E&I, members can take advantage of all the benefits of a fully functional eProcurement platform while extracting significant additional value and rapid return on investment. EqualLevel, Sponsored by E&I comes preloaded with E&I catalogs.
This is a common problem at many schools and universities. Recognizing this, E&I has developed a Change Management Toolkit to help communicate to end users and help them understand the benefits of VERVE. Most of this is templated and easy to repurpose. We will work with you to help get the word out on campus and grow usage.
VERVE University is our online learning center for all things VERVE. You can access explainer videos, how-to guides, quick reference guides, job aids, and more. All are designed to be easy to use and navigate. Browse our VERVE University library here.
eProcurement has typically been out of reach for many of our members. VERVE changes that dynamic. In addition, many members use a range of E&I contracts but may not be fully aware of the complete breadth of our portfolio. Others identify p-card and off-contract spend as a significant pain point for their institution. VERVE is an easy-to-adopt service that brings E&I’s portfolio of suppliers together in a secure, controlled environment with E&I contract pricing, federated search, and the ability to add member-specific pricing on E&I contracts.
All of E&I’s contracted suppliers have some presence in VERVE. Virtually all suppliers and their offerings are available via search. For suppliers with punchout capabilities, members can shop directly on the suppliers’ websites while still inside VERVE. Some suppliers (e.g., service providers) have Request for Quote functionality. A small number of suppliers have an Information Only presence in VERVE.
Each supplier in VERVE will have their own returns and replacement policy. In general, it will fall in line with that supplier’s return and replacement policy under the E&I contract. Click on any supplier tile in VERVE to bring up that supplier’s profile and view specific contact information.
