What is Sourcewell?
Sourcewell, formerly NJPA, is a cooperative purchasing organization for educational, governmental, and non-profit groups. Sourcewell focuses on making purchasing easier, better, and more affordable due to their public bidding process. Using Sourcewell for your procurement needs provides a variety of benefits, including:
- KOHLER industrial, residential, mobile and portable generators, Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS) and switchgear
- More than 300 trusted brands under contract
- NFPA 110
- Easy, no cost membership
- Buying power of 50,000 members
Why Purchase Through Sourcewell?
Purchasing through Sourcewell helps to save time, cut administrative costs and improve agency efficiency. It also allows your organization to choose quality, save time, control costs and manage risk.
How it Works
Sourcewell’s analysts streamline the procurement process by gathering requests for proposal and invitations for competitive bids from national vendors that meet or exceed local requirements. So where does Kohler fit in?
We’ve collaborated with Sourcewell’s analysts to speed up the purchasing process. All KOHLER industrial, residential, mobile and portable generators, ATS and switchgear can be purchased through your local Kohler distributor. Our distributors are trained to provide you with a gracious experience and answer any questions you have when working through Sourcewell.
We invite you to learn more about how to use cooperative purchasing to reach your goals.
WHAT IS CANOE?
The Canoe Procurement Group of Canada is a division of the Rurual Municipalities of Alberta (RMA). Canoe partnered with the National Joint Powers Association (now known as Sourcewell) in 2014 to further expand procurement options.
The Canoe Procurement Group of Canada works with municipal associations across the country. The associations work with Canoe to provide member organizations access to preferential pricing on tradecompliant purchasing programs that leverage the collective buying power of all involved.
WHY PURCHASE THROUGH CANOE?
TRUSTED SUPPLIERS
Every vendor on the Canoe/Sourcewell websites goes through a competitive solicitation process. The Board of Directors awards contracts to the most responsible and responsive vendors that apply.
A SINGLE-SOURCE SOLUTION
Canoe/Sourcewell simplifies the purchasing process into three steps. You can fifind reliable vendors, choose a contract and fifinalize a sale, all on the same website. Standardize replacement parts for convenience and time savings. You don’t have to settle for low-bid and low response RFPs.
DESIGNED FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION
As a national cooperative government partner, Canoe/Sourcewell has your organization’s needs in mind. They understand how to help nonprofits, government agencies and schools to get the products they require, efficiently and within budget.