Cooperative Purchasing

CSD’s Cooperative Purchasing Program provides school districts and Political subdivisions of the State of Missouri and Southern Illinois with high quality products and services. Membership is FREE and you're guaranteed lowest competitive bid price.

Receive discounts up to 50% off list price

Membership exceeds ALL state bid requirements

We work with more than 300 vendors.

One-Step One-Stop Mall

Consolidate all your school orders while using our catalogs or our easy to use web-site.

Phone, fax or email your orders.

If problems arise, we handle them for you including refunds and exchanges.

Three Types of Buying Opportunities

1) Catalog and Order Form Purchases

Purchase from our line item Catalogs or School Startup Order Forms (Co-Op Orders). Our regular catalog pricing from our published catalogs or from our web site is available any time during the year. Our Co-op Purchasing is available during late March thru June 30th, for ordering supplies for the next school year. Co-op orders are delivered by August 15. You will not be billed until after July 1st and the product is delivered.

For a list of Product Catalogs, click here.

2) Cooperating School Districts Special Pricing

Special pricing agreements with CSD Vendors that offer Exceptional Pricing. Many of these contracts are sole source contracts with negotiated pricing based on the potential volume of CSD customers.

For a list of CSD Specials, click here.

3) Association of Educational Purchasing Agencies (AEPA) Pricing

AEPA is a group of educational service agencies that benefit members through combined volume purchases-- AEPA creates bids that are nationally advertised and locally solicited in each of the 23 member states. AEPA follows all the T/C`s of the 23 state consortiums while providing over 345 years of cooperative experience doing public and private bidding. The organizations have been working together for 10 years and have gross sales of 430 million dollars while saving our school districts millions of dollars and providing a HASSEL FREE ENVIRONMENT

Visit Us at www.aepacoop.org and find quality products at discounted products and great service

CSD is the Missouri Representative to AEPA

AEPA Participating State Members:

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Florida

Iowa

Indiana

Kansas

Kentucky

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

Montana

North Dakota

Nebraska

New Jersey

New Mexico

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Texas

Virginia

Washington

Wyoming

For a list of AEPA Specials, click here.

For more information contact; The President of AEPA Tom Post at 314-692-1234 or tpost@csd.org

CSD
2013/2014
Co-op Order Forms Schedule