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The Pavilion booth at the California Association of Public Procurement Officials, Inc. Conference is the place to be today! 🎉 If you're at the CAPPO Conference, let’s chat about how Pavilion can help you save time and deliver better, faster public services to the communities you serve. While you’re here, be sure to check out our stickers—they’ve always been a crowd favorite, and this year, we have brand-new designs! #PublicProcurement #ProcurementInnovation #CAPPO2025 #Pavilion #PublicSector #ProcurementTools #CooperativePurchasing

The Vendor Expo Show at the California Association of Public Procurement Officials, Inc. (CAPPO) Conference is tomorrow! Stop by Booth 227 on Tuesday, January 14, from 12:30 to 4:30 PM to learn how Pavilion can help you save time finding cooperative contracts you can use. And don’t forget to attend "All for One and One for All: Building a Regional Procurement Alliance" on Wednesday, January 15, from 1:30 to 2:30 PM. Hear from Maria Agrusa (County of Orange (Procurement)) and Albie Udom, CPPO (City of San José) about the benefits of regional procurement collaboration. We’re excited to connect with you at CAPPO!

We're going to the CAPPO Conference next week! Visit our booth (#227) to learn how sharing your contracts on Pavilion helps your entity find your own contracts quickly—so that nobody misses a contract they should use. Why share your contracts on Pavilion? 🔍 Quickly find your contracts: Pavilion’s search and filter capabilities help you and your team access your entity’s contracts all in one place. 📈 Boost local businesses: When other entities use your contracts, your awarded suppliers save on selling costs and grow their businesses.  🕓 Save time on public records requests: Make it easy to share and give entities fast access to your contracts by directing them to Pavilion.  🤝 Give back to your community: Help your public procurement peers access contracts they can use. Pavilion already has 60,000 contracts from California entities. Be part of this growing network! Stop by booth #227 at CAPPO and read our blog to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gkDEVhaU

We’re excited to see you at this year's California Association of Public Procurement Officials, Inc. Conference. Stop by Booth 227 during the Vendor Expo Show on Tuesday, January 14, from 12:30 to 4:30 PM to learn how you can save time with Pavilion. Don’t miss the session "All for One and One for All: Building a Regional Procurement Alliance" on Wednesday, January 15, from 1:30 to 2:30 PM. Speakers Maria Agrusa (County of Orange (Procurement)) and Albie Udom, CPPO (City of San José) will share insights from the Southern California Procurement Alliance and the Bay Area Procurement Alliance (BAPA). These groups demonstrate how regional collaboration can deliver big benefits for taxpayers, staff, and suppliers alike. We look forward to connecting with you at CAPPO!

Churros and robots and goats—oh my! 🍴 🤖 🐐 As we wrap up 2024, we’re reflecting on some of the wackiest procurements we’ve heard about this year. While these might not be everyday purchases, Pavilion is here to help you find suppliers for all your procurement needs—whether it’s office supplies, IT consulting, or beyond. Tell us your most memorable purchases this year in the comments!

⚖️ What does it really cost to run a solicitation in higher education? Pavilion CEO, Mariel Reed, will be joining a webinar hosted by the National Association of Educational Procurement to discuss how Pavilion’s Cost to Procure Calculator, developed using insights from nearly 40 public agencies through the National Cooperative Procurement Partners RFP Tracking Project, is helping institutions better understand the financial impact of their procurement choices. 🔗 Register for free here: https://lnkd.in/ePjda8mV

To Bid or Not to Bid? On Dec 10th, NCPP is partnering on a free webinar with Pavilion and National Association of Educational Procurement to share the NCPP RFP Tracking Project results and latest tools for procurement teams. https://lnkd.in/gt7sRpDY

Post Thanksgiving this week, there's an all-star team of public servants and industry experts cooking up some awesome content and conversation on the future of #AI in the #publicsector. I'm hungry 🦃 🍽️ to learn from others and share more about how Pavilion is partnering to support hundreds of public entities across the country leveraging #AI and #cooperativeprocurement to deliver better, faster public services for our communities. On Thursday afternoon, I'll be joining Emily Binet Royall, Kimberly Barnard, CPPB, NIGP-CPP, Ryan Maher, CPPB, and Kailey Burger Ayogu in a discussion about procurement and AI, where we'll also invite *you* to participate in sharing expertise and contracts related to AI for the public sector. Also excited to see friends in the industry - shoutout Cherie Chung and Brendan Hellweg (founders of Holly), Eyal Feder-Levy (Zencity), and Coursera - among others! See you there 👋

We hear many suppliers think of cooperative contracts as a sales tool to help close the deal faster. But public entity buying patterns are shifting -- there's now a significant opportunity to use cooperative contracts to generate new pipeline. Hear from an all-star panelist of public entity and supplier speakers to learn about: - Promoting contracts through marketing channels - Perspectives on training sales teams on the contract portfolio - Strategies to get your foot in the door to new accounts and drive cross-sells with existing accounts Register for free here: https://lnkd.in/g6YbiBBB

🌟 Attention NASPO ValuePoint Awarded Suppliers! 🌟 Catch up on our recent webinar with Pavilion on “How to Sell More Through Your Awarded NASPO Contracts.” This is your opportunity to learn how to effectively leverage your NASPO ValuePoint contract in today’s cooperative procurement landscape. In the webinar, you’ll discover: 💠 Latest trends in cooperative procurement and their significance for your business. 💠 Strategies to promote your contracts to state, local, and educational institutions. 💠 Uncover agencies actively looking to piggyback and increase your odds of winning their business. 💠 Common pitfalls in cooperative selling and how to avoid them. 👥 Featuring insights from: Mariel Reed, CEO of Pavilion, and Jaime Schorr, Chief Cooperative Procurement Officer of NASPO ValuePoint. 👉 Don’t miss out! Log in to the NASPO Supplier toolbox now to access the webinar recording and equip your business for greater success: https://hubs.ly/Q02XYNX30