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Higher Education

Support a sprawling campus, departments, labs, residence life and administration, with a purchasing program that respects decentralized buying while giving the institution central visibility.

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Campus-wide

catalog

Dept-level

controls

Central

ready

The challenges we solve

Made for the realities of Higher Education

Districts stretch every dollar across dozens of schools while staff juggle ordering on top of everything else. We make buying simple, standardized and easy to control.

1

Decentralized buying

Department-level autonomy inside institution-wide rules, so units move fast without going off-contract.

2

Wildly varied needs

From lab consumables to office and facility supplies, one partner covers the whole campus.

3

Procurement systems to match

Punchout and hosted catalogs that integrate with the systems your office already runs.

4

Accountability to leadership

Central visibility and reporting that roll every department's spend into one clear picture.

What we supply

Supplies for the whole campus

Lab & Academic Supplies

Consumables and essentials for teaching and research spaces.

Facility & Custodial

Keep large, high-traffic buildings clean and safe.

Residence & Campus Life

Supplies for dorms, unions and common areas.

Office & Administration

Everyday supplies across every department.

Furniture & Spaces

Furnish offices, lounges and learning spaces.

Punchout & Procurement

Integrate ordering with your e-procurement system.

Built for institutions

Autonomy for departments, visibility for the institution

Let each unit buy what it needs while central procurement keeps a single, reportable view of the whole institution.

Department autonomy

Units order within institution-wide rules.

Punchout ready

Integrates with your procurement systems.

One catalog

From lab to office to facility.

Central rollup

Institution-wide spend in one view.

Insights

Insights for Higher Education

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The benefits

What you get with Higher Education

Most organizations come to us for price. They stay for the hours back, the visibility and the fact that someone else is handling it. Here's what this program delivers in practice.

Sector

Specific programs

Item lists, compliance and delivery patterns tuned to how k-12 education actually operates.

Audit

Ready documentation

Certifications, SDS and reporting produced when an inspector asks, not weeks later.

Budget

Cycle aware

We plan around your fiscal year, grant timing and seasonal peaks.

One

Partner across sites

Every location on the same standard, pricing and service level.

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In the field

What Higher Education looks like on the ground

Real installs, stockrooms, deliveries and account reviews from client sites, so you can see the standard before you sign anything.

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Higher Education in a live workplace, planned and installed by our team.

Standardized stockroom, labeled, scanned and replenished on schedule.

On-site walkthrough with the specialist who owns your account.

Delivered, unboxed and placed, not dropped at the dock.

Quarterly review: usage, spend and what to change next.

Want to see this in your space? We'll walk your sites and photograph the plan before you commit.

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Us vs. them

How we compare to the way most companies buy

Big-box and national catalog suppliers sell you a website. We build a program around how your organization actually orders, and then we stay involved.

What matters

Who you deal with

Pricing

Getting started

Ongoing management

When something goes wrong

Breadth

Office Solutions

A named local rep and account team who know your sites by name.

Contracted, transparent pricing on the items you actually reorder.

We audit your spend, build the item list and load it for you, free.

Quarterly reviews, usage reporting and proactive savings recommendations.

One number, same-day answers, and we own the fix.

Higher education plus supplies, breakroom, facility, tech, print and furniture on one account.

Big-box & national catalogs

A call center queue and a different agent every time.

List price with rotating promos that quietly reset.

You build carts and figure out the catalog yourself.

An invoice, and silence between them.

Ticket forms, hold music and shipping disputes

Separate vendors, separate logins, separate invoices.

Bring us your last three invoices. We'll show you the difference in writing.

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The reporting holds up in a budget review. That alone made the switch worth it.

Alicia B. - Category Manager, Financial Services

Let's build your Higher Education program

Tell us about your facilities and we'll tailor a program to your compliance, budget and delivery needs, at no cost to start.

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