We believe the best results come from working together. That’s why collaboration is central to how we work with the procurement, logistics, facilities, supply chain, and finance teams at the municipalities, universities, schools, hospitals, non-profits, provinces, and healthcare facilities that comprise our membership. And it doesn’t stop there. We actively engage vendors and other group purchasing organizations to develop innovative solutions that generate better value for our broader public sector and non-profit members.
Collaboration activities include:
Below are our current affiliations:
Collaboration activities include:
- Improving RFx outcomes through collaborative strategic sourcing and partnership affiliations.
- Leveraging existing vendor agreements.
Below are our current affiliations:
CentralSource, via Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA), was created to harness the purchasing power of Saskatchewan’s hometowns. Saskatchewan municipalities can access additional local contracts that provide preferential pricing on trade-compliant purchasing programs that leverage the collective buying power of all involved. A comprehensive list of Central Source agreements can be found here.
As part of SSW and Kinetic GPO's mandate, we wish to generate savings and improve procurement efficiencies by making competitively procured services, equipment and products resulting from procurements managed by each collaborative purchasing organization, available to other organizations such as school boards, school authorities, colleges, universities, municipalities, Ontario Public Service organizations, Broader Public Sector organization, and other government-funded organizations.
Shared Services West ("SSW") and Kinetic GPO ("KGPO") have entered a MOU with one another.
Pursuant to the foregoing collaboration and affiliation agreements and arrangements, KGPO members are permitted at SSW’s discretion to leverage and participate in vendor contracts that result from competitive procurements managed by Shared Services West. Concurrently, SSW Clients are permitted to leverage KGPO's Standing Offers that result from competitive procurement managed by KGPO, by nature of their membership in the Kinetic GPO Membership Program.
A comprehensive list of Shared Services West agreements and information regarding the request submission process can be found here.
Shared Services West ("SSW") and Kinetic GPO ("KGPO") have entered a MOU with one another.
Pursuant to the foregoing collaboration and affiliation agreements and arrangements, KGPO members are permitted at SSW’s discretion to leverage and participate in vendor contracts that result from competitive procurements managed by Shared Services West. Concurrently, SSW Clients are permitted to leverage KGPO's Standing Offers that result from competitive procurement managed by KGPO, by nature of their membership in the Kinetic GPO Membership Program.
A comprehensive list of Shared Services West agreements and information regarding the request submission process can be found here.