We know the pressure you’re under. Shrinking budgets. Increasing compliance demands. Rising expectations for sustainability and supplier inclusion. And through it all, keeping students and faculty supported without disruption. Most institutions are stuck reacting to challenges instead of using procurement to drive real advantage. We think it’s time to flip the script.
For more than 90 years, we’ve been dedicated to helping higher education succeed. Founded by and for education, E&I was built with one purpose: to make procurement work better for institutions like yours. As former procurement officers, we understand your challenges firsthand. We’ve helped thousands of institutions with best-practice sourcing, strategy, and solutions tailored to your unique needs. Today, we remain the only nonprofit, member-owned sourcing cooperative focused exclusively on education.
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E&I Cooperative Services: Different by Design
Your Strategic Procurement Advantage
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Robby Bounds, Executive Director of Procurement Services, Texas A&M University
Texas A&M is one of the largest universities in the nation. E&I is the big hammer in our toolbelt. We’re able to enhance our procurement process, achieve significant cost savings, and improve the overall quality of our procurement services. They’ve proven their commitment to us and to higher education by maintaining the highest standards of compliance, transparency, and quality of their sourcing activities.
Greg Shabram, Chief Procurement Officer, University of Oregon
Working with E&I has been invaluable in support of our procurement efforts because they offer a lot of great contracts. And one of the things they provide that’s unique is a focus on contracts that are made and tailored for higher ed. Whereas other cooperatives oftentimes have a broader, public-sector sort of approach. That’s great for some sectors and commodity categories, but in others like higher ed that has unique needs, it’s great to have a cooperative that is focused on those unique needs.