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The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) is the region-wide voluntary association of local governments in the 13-county Gulf Coast Planning Region of Texas. The organization works with local government officials to solve problems across the area.
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H-GAC is a 13-county regional consortium that works on finding solutions to issues affecting our collective areas, this includes: transportation, air quality, community and environmental issues, public safety and security, human services, cooperative purchasing and regional data and geographic information system (GIS) services.
A purchasing cooperative is a type of cooperative arrangement, often among businesses, to agree to aggregate demand to get lower prices from selected suppliers. Retailers' cooperatives are a form of purchasing cooperative. Cooperatives are often used by government agencies to reduce costs of procurement. Purchasing Cooperatives are used ...
The H-GAC 2035 Regional Transportation Plan (H-GAC 2035 RTP) is the long range transportation plan for the Houston-Galveston Area and serves as blueprint for further planning to be undertaken in the region over the next 30 years.
An example is National IPA, a purchasing consortium of local government and education agencies, also known as cooperative purchasing. Joint powers authorities are particularly widely used in California (where they are permitted under Section 6502 of the Government Code ), [ 1 ] but they are also found in other states.
Retailers' cooperatives use their purchasing power to acquire discounts from manufacturers and often share marketing expenses. A retailers' cooperative is essentially a group of independently owned businesses that pool their resources to purchase in bulk, usually by establishing a central buying organization, and engage in joint promotion ...
Its mission is to provide a streamlined purchasing portal for federal agencies to acquire goods and services. [ 1 ] The service is intended to benefit any federal agency that has access to the GSA Advantage program; however, two federal acts have also allowed state and local governments to access and purchase from this service.