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Case Studies
Case Studies
February 3, 2023
Region 18 ESC Purchasing Cooperative and Pavilion help school districts connect with approved suppliers through shareable contracts
With Pavilion’s free platform, the Region 18 ESC Purchasing Cooperative is enhancing the member district experience by making it easier to find Region 18 ESC-approved supplier contracts and supporting documents, plus shareable contracts from across the country.
Case Studies
December 16, 2022
Orange County, CA is strengthening procurement operations and supporting local businesses with Pavilion
Orange County, California, is the 6th largest County in the U.S. Over 250 County deputy procurement officers procure more than $2 billion of goods and services annually. Learn how Orange County uses Pavilion to share local contracts and discover contracts from entities across the nation with a single search.
Case Studies
October 12, 2022
Arizona's SAVE says goodbye to spreadsheets and hello to shareable contracts on Pavilion
The Strategic Alliance for Volume Expenditures (SAVE) is a model for what public entities can accomplish by working together. SAVE is a self-organized group of more than 320 public entities across Arizona with a shared goal: to lower procurement costs by aggregating public purchasing power and reducing administrative redundancies.
Guides
Guides
November 13, 2023
Publish your contracts to Pavilion using Bonfire
Bonfire users can use Pavilion to find and use contracts directly within the Bonfire experience. But you can get even more out of your agency’s experience with Pavilion by publishing the contracts you create on Bonfire to Pavilion. Learn how to set up automatic publishing in just a few steps.
Guides
August 3, 2023
4 Key Benefits to Sharing Your Contracts
Here are 4 ways you and your community can benefit from sharing contracts on Pavilion
Guides
June 8, 2023
Regional models for collaboration: how to strengthen purchasing collaboration in your region
Explore two models for regional collaboration in procurement.
Guides
December 7, 2022
A due diligence checklist for shareable public entity contracts
Using shareable contracts can save government staff time and achieve cost savings. But if you’re new to cooperative purchasing in government, navigating the diligence process can be tricky. Here’s a general due diligence checklist that can help you quickly evaluate whether or not you can use a shareable contract.
Guides
November 17, 2022
How can public entities share contracts? A cooperative purchasing overview
Maybe you’ve heard of cooperative purchasing, shareable contracts, or piggybacking. Here, we cover an overview of these concepts, plus joint solicitations, interlocal agreements, and participating agreements, too.
Guides
September 14, 2022
7 Steps For Promoting Equity in Public Procurement
Explore 7 actionable steps to advance equity in public procurement. Learn best practices, strategies, and insights to foster inclusive contracting.
Guides
September 8, 2022
Why and how to add shareable language to your contracts
Shareable contracts can go by many names: cooperative contracts, piggyback contracts, interlocal or intergovernmental contracts. At their core, a shareable contract is a contract created by one public entity through a formal competitive process that another public entity can use to make a purchase.
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Guides
August 31, 2022
Who creates shareable contracts?
Cooperative purchasing is when public entities collaborate on purchasing by sharing contracts. Collaboration can happen up-front, when public entities decide to run a competitive bidding process and generate a new contract together, or entities can share contracts after they’ve been created through piggybacking.
Guides
August 20, 2022
Support local and diverse businesses using shareable contracts
You may assume that you’ll need to choose between the ease and speed of using a shareable contract and your entity’s goals around supporting local or diverse businesses. Actually, shareable contracts can be a powerful tool for advancing equity in contracting and driving economic development in your local community.
Guides
April 4, 2022
Supporting public entities during the COVID-19 panedmic
In the “wild, wild West” of personal protective equipment (PPE) purchasing, we’ve seen that effective supplier diligence requires better collaboration. Over the last few weeks, Pavilion and Project N95 have iterated on approaches for diligencing new suppliers; now, we’re working together to verify and publish PPE providers. Here’s what we’ve learned.
Guides
March 31, 2022
The pros and cons of using a shareable contract
Working in public procurement isn’t easy. Shareable purchasing isn’t a silver bullet for all procurement challenges, but leveraging the expertise, experience, and procurement work of thousands of governments across the country can help you save time, achieve costs savings, and even access local and/or diverse suppliers, faster.
What's Happening at Pavilion
News
November 30, 2023
How we moved off of OpenAI for semantic search in only 2 weeks
How the Pavilion Engineering team deployed and evaluated an open source alternative to OpenAI's text embeddings in 2 weeks along with some helpful tips and tricks we learned along the way.
Team Members
November 29, 2023
Welcoming Loren Brown
Get to know Pavilion's newest Customer Success Manager, Loren Brown. In this interview, she dives into her passion for making positive change, love for teaching salsa courses, and more!
Guides
November 7, 2023
Publish your contracts to Pavilion using Bonfire
Bonfire users can use Pavilion to find and use contracts directly within the Bonfire experience. But you can get even more out of your agency’s experience with Pavilion by publishing the contracts you create on Bonfire to Pavilion.
Guides
Guides
November 28, 2023
Watch: Stand out on Pavilion as a Pro Supplier
See how you can get more business by being a Pro Supplier on Pavilion.
Guides
December 28, 2022
Why shareable contracts matter for your business
If you’re a supplier that sells to public entities, Pavilion can help you sell faster, at a lower cost, to more public entities.
Guides
December 14, 2022
Managing stakeholders during the sales process
Unless you’re selling a procurement-related product or service, odds are that the individuals in government who manage the purchasing process (“procurement”) are not the same people as the public servants who are your customers (“end users”). During the sales process, you’ll need to make sure you’re working well with both kinds of stakeholders. You need to sell to your end users and meet the compliance needs of their procurement counterparts.
Guides
December 5, 2022
What is public procurement?
The way governments spend public dollars is highly regulated, with formal procurement processes and different public sector "customers". As a supplier selling to public entities, you navigate with the procurement process, sell to public sector end users, and meet the compliance needs of public procurement professionals.
Guides
December 3, 2022
Selling using shareable contracts: FAQs
Get started selling through shareable contracts. Learn the detailed specifics of how to get onto a shareable contract and how to sell off a shareable contract.
Guides
December 1, 2022
What are shareable contracts?
Everything you need to know about shareable contracts: what are they, who creates them, and what can you sell using them.
What's Happening at Pavilion
News
November 30, 2023
How we moved off of OpenAI for semantic search in only 2 weeks
How the Pavilion Engineering team deployed and evaluated an open source alternative to OpenAI's text embeddings in 2 weeks along with some helpful tips and tricks we learned along the way.
Team Members
November 29, 2023
Welcoming Loren Brown
Get to know Pavilion's newest Customer Success Manager, Loren Brown. In this interview, she dives into her passion for making positive change, love for teaching salsa courses, and more!
News
July 25, 2023
Welcoming Kwasi Adu
Kwasi is Pavilion's newest engineer. Read his interview to learn about his passion for positive impact, love for good company and food, and one of his favorite sci-fi novels.