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Proud Founding Member: IMESD Has Helped Shape AEPA for over 25 Years!
The Association of Educational Purchasing Agencies (AEPA), established in 2000, began with 10 member states united by a shared vision: to leverage collective purchasing power and deliver competitively solicited contracts that provide greater value to public entities. InterMountain Education Service District (IMESD), representing Oregon, is proud to be one of AEPA’s founding administrative agencies.
Today, AEPA has grown to include 31 member states, with annual cooperative purchasing volume exceeding $1 billion. Member agencies collaborate on bid committees to develop contracts that are competitively awarded and carefully structured to meet each state’s specific legal and procurement requirements. Once awarded, contracts are made available statewide and administered by a designated member agency.
IMESD serves as the AEPA Contract Administrator for Oregon. Our team is here to assist you with navigating AEPA cooperative purchasing, answering questions, and providing the documentation and support you need to confidently utilize these contracts.
Thank you for partnering with AEPA and for supporting Oregon’s K–12 students.
Rob Naughton
Director of Operations
InterMountain Education Service District (IMESD)
Pendleton, Oregon
Choose AEPA—the only cooperative where every purchase delivers value and reinvests directly back into K–12 students across Northeast Oregon.
Explore AEPA’s most popular purchasing categories and trusted vendors available to Oregon public entities.
Athletic Field and Track Surfaces
High-performance field and track surface solutions that deliver safety, durability, and peak athletic performance from trusted, competitively awarded vendors.
Comprehensive roofing and related services that provide durable, energy-efficient, and fully compliant solutions from trusted, competitively awarded vendors.
A comprehensive technology catalog offering competitively awarded, compliant solutions—from devices to infrastructure—designed to support secure, modern, and efficient public operations.
