Group Purchasing

The Power of Group Purchasing: Banding Together to Optimize Costs, Maximize Results

Efficient procurement is essential in acquiring high-quality goods or services for a company’s reputation and success. Group purchasing involves businesses or organizations joining forces to buy goods or services at discounted prices through a purchasing consortium or alliance. This collective buying power enables empowered negotiation with suppliers to secure the best prices, terms, and support even from top-tier providers. 

Why Choose Conformance1 Group Purchasing

eMost group purchasing is done for commodity items such as office supplies, facilities management products, travel services and some equipment. Conformance1′ s buying group is instead focused on managment systems related areas such as software, certification, training and support services (such as IT security tools like phishing training or access verification or quality-related services like measurement equipment metrology). By sharing the costs of procurement procedures among pool members, individual companies can reduce burdensome expenses while benefiting from the pool’s expertise and best practices.

• Cost Savings: Group purchasing organizations can pre-negotiate discounts on behalf of our members by pooling individual buying power. This is especially beneficial when direct procurement savings become more challenging to achieve as a procurement function matures.
• Simplified Purchasing: Members can bypass the time-consuming and often complex negotiation process by receiving immediate access to the best available pricing through pre-negotiated contracts, thus enhancing negotiation outcomes with suppliers.
• Better Negotiations: Combining buying power gives members an advantage over individual negotiations.
• Save Time on Supplier Relationship Management: Joining a group purchasing organization can alleviate the effort required in managing supplier relationships, especially for smaller organizations that might not get the attention of big suppliers. This allows companies to focus on strategic planning and other value-adding activities.
• Save on Consultants and Advisory Services: Instead of spending on procurement consultants, partnering with a group of purchasing organizations can offer similar or better advisory services as they analyze spending, understand needs, and help roadmap sourcing projects.

How Our Group Purchasing Works

1. Browse our listing of products and services from popular categories and suppliers.
2. Submit your request for quote/proposal via the form below, consolidating them with other members’ orders.
3. Receive preliminary terms and pricing from selected vendors without having to disclose your interest to specific buyers.
4. Decide whether to proceed with the buying process and eventually sign an agreement.*
5. You benefit from the lower prices, better payment terms, and improved service levels negotiated by Conformance1 on behalf of our members.

*In some cases, receiving optimum discounts will require purchasing through Conformance 1. In other instances, direct purchasing to receive the discounts will be acceptable.

The Conformance1 Difference

Conformance 1 is a problem-solving resource for those producing goods and services in manufacturing, energy, environmental, construction, information services, and related segments. Our services are designed to help users evaluate and implement tools and problem-solving approaches through:

• Solution comparison and evaluation tools
• Pre-testing and scoring of potential solutions before purchasing
• Implementation checklists
• Supplier listings and upon-request peer evaluations
• Cost estimators and anonymous demonstrations/quoting for buyers
• Buying groups to reduce the cost and increase the support of chosen solutions
• Individualized support and consulting
• General reference and educational materials and approaches

We’re a buyer advocate, a solution strategist, and an industry influencer to understand where segments in which we participate are headed and help to define their futures positively.

To ensure you get the most out of group purchasing, please fill out the form below. Our team is currently reviewing clients’ specific needs to determine how we can assist everyone in finding tailor-made solutions.

Have a product/service category you’d like to increase your buying power? Let us know. Not ready to join? Something missing? Tell us what you need.