Building a good, solid, durable piece of furniture requires attention to detail and a grasp of the intricacies involved. The same can be said for the process of purchasing furniture for a charter school, says Karen Volner, National Business Development Director, Furniture, for the State/Local...
Of all the items on a charter school’s lengthy procurement shopping list, furniture has to be among the simplest to purchase, right? After all, how much nuance could there be to buying chairs, desks, storage cabinets and the like? Plenty, it turns out....
It's been a busy year-and-half for Stephen Parmer, who, since taking over as head of procurement for Uplift Education, the largest charter school network in North Texas, in early 2016, has been hard at work centralizing what had been a relatively loose and largely departmentalized...
If procurement is part of your job description, then you know just how high the stakes are with the purchasing decisions you make on behalf of your school or school network, and just how important due diligence is in the procurement process. Part of that due...
I'm here to share some advice on a problem that charter schools of all types face: choosing the right payment method for the supplies and services they purchase. In my work at EdTec, supporting all types of charter schools, I often see the same problems around...
Make no mistake: a strong purchasing policy can be a difference-maker for your school. It is among the most effective ways to maximize a school’s resources while minimizing the fraud, abuse and waste that can creep into the procurement process when a purchasing policy is...
With multiple layers of procurement rules, policies and reporting requirements to navigate, compliance may seem like a trip through Dante’s Inferno for school procurement people. But as much of a headache as figuring out and following all those rules and regs can be, the process...
For Chad Miller, the writing is on the wall. Miller, the chief business offer at High Point Academy in Aurora, Colo., soon will need to start buying dozens of new SMART boards to replace the aging boards that equip all the classrooms at the 750-student...
Getting a low price for basic school and office supplies was nice, but Katrina Conley of Green Dot Public Schools could no longer overlook the spotty inventory and shoddy service the Los Angeles-based charter school network was getting from the national retailer that was supplying...