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Benefits of Utilizing Cooperative Purchasing for Furniture

The need to purchase furniture can be sporadic at times unless you have a preplanned renovation in the works. By partnering with a cooperative, you have immediate access to furniture solutions when you need them.

Cost Savings

“Our program leverages national scale which provides deep discounting for day-to-day orders and increased discounting for project orders. As the size of the project grows, the discounts get deeper and the savings to the customer increase.” Vanessa Perutelli, Senior Director, Strategic Supplier Relations at OMNIA Partners

Our furniture suppliers' product lines span from low-end to high-end and everything in between to fit your current needs and budget. Our team constantly monitors the market to ensure our furniture programs are consistently offered to our participants at contracted pricing while also remaining on trend.

Want to hear from a real customer? Check out this blog that we produced in partnership with The City of Charlotte: A Look Inside: Furniture Purchasing Strategy with City of Charlotte | OMNIA Partners

Full-Service, Streamlined Process

When utilizing a cooperative, the RFP process has already been performed by some of the most elite procurement teams in the nation through a lead agency model ensuring industry best practices‚ processes and procedures are applied. By taking advantage of the already awarded furniture contracts, you can focus on increasing efficiencies and managing other priorities along the project(s).  

“If you're interested in furniture, we can help you with that journey,” says Lisa Merder, Vice President of Workspace Solutions and furniture subject matter expert at OMNIA Partners. “We have furniture and interior solutions that can help, starting with architects and design, general contractors, and even dealers who provide design content and services. Whatever your needs may be, we can do a complete profile and work with you to come up with a solution that saves you time, money and resources,” says Merder.

After selecting an initial solution, we can help get you connected to everyone you'll need along the furniture buying journey, including designers and contractors. Our supplier partners will also offer assistance during every step of the process including installation, design, project management and even storage/asset management.

Furniture Solutions When You Need Them

When selecting a furniture program, you want to make sure the shoe fits. Not all suppliers are one size fits all, which is why we are proud to partner with numerous industry leading suppliers to be able to provide exactly what our participants, like yourself, need. 

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