accountability as it applies to cooperatives

ACCOUNTABILITY AS IT APPLIES TO COOPERATIVES

THE CO-OPERATIVE “BEST” PRACTICES• Vetting the contract

• Co-Operative Agency Compliance Philosophy

• Co-Operative Agency Experience

• Pricing Verification

VETTING THE CONTRACTDoes the Co-operative:

• Have duplicable processes to ensure proper compliance with legal statutes?

• Does the final Request for Proposal allow for a clear and concise response that can be easily supported by any agency?

• Are there third party experts evaluating the contract and qualifying the respondents?

• Is there a transparent method of showing the process to all agencies to review?

AGENCY COMPLIANCE PHILOSOPHYDoes the Co-operative:

• Have the training resources to ensure the vendors understand cooperative purchasing?

• Focus on all members of the team: the agency, vendor and cooperative?

• Have a system to ensure compliance and to engage the agency, vendor

and contract support team?

PRICING VERIFICATION Does the Co-operative:

• Have labor solutions pricing tied to a benchmark cost structure?

• Have transparent pricing mechanisms that can be presented to any agency at their request?

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Mark Powell, LEED AP pms@proformams.com (832) 707-0717