Group Purchasing
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Group Purchasing
CDE Office of School Nutrition
2013 Director ’s Conference
What is Group Purchasing?
A way for School Food Authorities (SFAs)
to purchase better: better prices for
better products
Formal or Informal?
Co-op or Group Purchasing Organization?
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USDA Regulations
Free and Open Competition for ALL
Purchases: products or services
USDA Memo SP 35-2012
Why? Spending Federal and state dollars
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Competition is Key!
If SFA wants to use services of Purchasing coop, group buying organization or entity
offering to facilitate access to these groups,
competitive purchasing must be used. Even if
there is no charge for the service
If a cooperative is only SFAs, joining the coop
does not require competitive procurement.
Cannot include a 3rd party and be considered
solely SFAs.
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Intergovernmental or “piggybacking”
SFAs need to ensure that all CNP
procurement requirements are met when
piggybacking on another
intergovernmental bid
Trying to find answer for ALL school
districts to participate
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Panel
Al Piper, Buyer for Thompson School District and school
purchasing cooperative
Jill Kidd, Pueblo 60 Director and President of CC Star
Purchasing
Joella Carron: Mapleton SD and Purchasing cooperative
Krista Garand: Durango Director and “Informal” group
purchasing for Farm to School
Beth Wallace: Cherry Creek Director has state wide catalog bid
for equipment
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Other options
Summa Purchasing Group: Must be procured
competitively, many SFAs obtain bids from
Summa to compare; no charge to join
Colorado BOCES: Will have state wide
intergovernmental bid that “piggybacks” onto
WY and MT bid. Effective July 1, 2013. Can be
used as another option to obtain competitive
prices. Covers most of state for 13-14, required
to cover 100% of state in 2014-15
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