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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
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
Actionable steps for advancing equity in government contracting
Public procurement is big business: state and local governments spend $2 trillion taxpayer dollars. To promote equity using these dollars, we must consider the impact of procurement on delivering fast, high-quality public services and the distribution of government funds to businesses.
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.
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Press
June 1, 2023
Painless Procurement?
This episode of Voices in Local Government focuses on more efficient ways for local governments to buy the products and services they need to better serve their communities.
Press
May 15, 2023
Point Procurement at the Goal, With Mariel Reed
We examine the ever-evolving relationship between state/local procurement and finance.
Press
May 9, 2023
Why You Should Consider Selling to Governments and How To Do It Well
As the macroeconomic environment becomes more challenging, public servants are an attractive new category of buyer for startups.
Guides
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
Press
June 1, 2023
Painless Procurement?
This episode of Voices in Local Government focuses on more efficient ways for local governments to buy the products and services they need to better serve their communities.
Press
May 15, 2023
Point Procurement at the Goal, With Mariel Reed
We examine the ever-evolving relationship between state/local procurement and finance.
Press
May 9, 2023
Why You Should Consider Selling to Governments and How To Do It Well
As the macroeconomic environment becomes more challenging, public servants are an attractive new category of buyer for startups.