Advancing equity through cooperative procurement

CoProcure speaks with Lourdes Coss and Keith Glatz about how public agencies can achieve equity and local economic development objectives through cooperative procurement.
4 tactics you can use:
1. Leverage technology to discover diverse suppliers already on cooperative contracts.
2. Push to include local and/or diverse businesses when you use cooperative contracts from national purchasing cooperatives.
3. Add piggybackable language to your entity’s contracts so other public entities can work with your local and diverse vendors
4. Promote local/diverse suppliers through publishing and distributing contracts on CoProcure.
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