contractor success Joining A Group Purchasing Organization Pooling the purchasing power of service contract companies to create discounts. By: Terry Sambrowski I Industries that are largely comprised of small businesses can realize huge benefits through a group purchasing organization (GPO). These organizations pool the purchas-ing power of the members to negotiate significant discounts from suppliers cov-ering the goods and services they use in their business every day. GPOs are most commonly found in the healthcare, foodservice and grocery in-dustries but have expanded into many other industries in recent years — even into nonprofit organizations. National Service Alliance (NSA) is a GPO that was started in 1996 by several inde-pendently-owned building service con-tractors (BSCs). GPOs can have untold benefits for small businesses. 36 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® June 2014 Image courtesy of National Service Alliance
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