GEP Selected as Preferred Procurement Software Provider to E&I Cooperative Services’ Network of 6,000+ K-University Educational Institutions
- E&I member institutions gain streamlined access to GEP AI-powered source-to-pay solutions to transform procurement and drive measurable value
Clark, N.J., Jan. 7, 2025 – GEP announced today that E&I Cooperative Services, a member-owned, non-profit cooperative serving more than 6,000 educational institutions across the United States, has selected GEP’s AI-driven procurement software solutions as a preferred supplier. Under the competitively solicited agreement, E&I member institutions can access the solutions under pre-negotiated, E&I-approved terms.
This agreement enables U.S. universities, colleges and K–12 educational institutions to more easily deploy GEP’s AI-powered source-to-pay platform to standardize sourcing, contracting, supplier management, and purchasing. The platform helps strengthen compliance, improve visibility across spend and suppliers, reduce manual effort, and support more effective use of limited budgets through data-driven procurement.
By leveraging E&I’s competitively solicited agreement, member institutions can reduce procurement complexity and accelerate time-to-value while meeting education and public-sector requirements. The agreement will be supported through E&I enablement resources and a dedicated microsite, helping members efficiently evaluate and adopt GEP solutions based on their specific needs.
This supplier agreement builds on a prior consulting engagement in which GEP supported E&I’s own procurement transformation. Through that engagement, E&I redesigned its sourcing operating model, streamlined processes and improved organizational efficiency, an initiative that was recognized with a CIPS industry award for Procurement Consultancy Project of the Year. This new agreement represents the next phase of collaboration, extending proven procurement capabilities directly to E&I member institutions through an approved supplier relationship. GEP was selected through E&I’s competitive solicitation process, prevailing against other source-to-pay providers.
GEP SOFTWARE, recently named a Leader in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay (S2P) Suites, encompasses GEP SMARTTM, the world’s best procurement software, and GEP NEXXETM, the next-generation cloud-native supply chain unified platform, and GEP GREENTM to measure and advance sustainability. GEP SOFTWARE is powered by GEP Qi, the industry's leading agentic AI-native platform. It enables clients to drive optimum efficiency, agility, visibility and actionable intelligence into all procurement, purchasing and supply chain functions while eliminating burdensome infrastructure and support costs to achieve maximum ROI.
About E&I Cooperative Services
For more than 90 years, E&I Cooperative Services (E&I) is the only member-owned, non-profit procurement cooperative exclusively focused on serving higher education and K-12 institutions. E&I delivers unsurpassed value and an exceptional experience to its members through a broad portfolio of competitively solicited contracts with industry-leading suppliers and innovative sourcing solutions. The Cooperative empowers its members to make informed, analytics-driven decisions to capture more spending and optimize their education dollars. In addition, E&I offers strategic spend assessments, eProcurement solutions, supplier inclusion programs, and digital, virtual, and in-person education that advance the industry. For more information, please visit www.eandi.org.
About GEP SOFTWARE
GEP SOFTWARE™ provides award-winning digital procurement and supply chain platforms that help global enterprises become more agile, resilient, competitive, and profitable. With beautifully rendered interfaces and flexible workflows, GEP® provides users fresh, intuitive digital workspaces that yield extraordinary levels of user adoption and meaningful gains in team and personal productivity. GEP products capitalize on machine learning and cognitive computing, advanced data, and semantic technologies, IoT, mobile and cloud technologies, and are designed to incorporate continual innovations in technology. GEP’s software integrates quickly and easily with third-party and legacy systems, such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and all other major ERP and F&A software. And with superb support and service, GEP is an industry leader in customer satisfaction and loyalty. A leader in multiple Gartner Magic Quadrants, GEP’s cloud-native software and digital business platforms consistently win awards and recognition from industry analysts, research firms and media outlets, including Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Procurement Leaders and Spend Matters. GEP SOFTWARE is part of Clark, NJ-based GEP — the world’s leading provider of procurement and supply chain strategy, software and managed services. To learn more, visit www.gepsoftware.com.
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