How public-sector fleets can reduce procurement time, cut costs and stretch budgets
Once know as “piggybacking”, cooperative procurement is a public purchasing method that has skyrocketed in popularity within recent years. With the method, if a single government agency has completed required steps of procurement (bid) process, established a contract for an item or groups of products and issued an award or awards to several vendors, then this contract award can be used by other government agencies for a fixed period of time.
By Steve Perlstein – featured in Government Procurement Magazine