Specifications include, but are not limited to: NASPO ValuePoint (formerly WSCA-NASPO) is a cooperative purchasing program facilitating public procurement solicitations and agreements using a lead state model. The National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) is a cooperative group contracting consortium for State government departments, institutions, agencies, and political subdivisions (i.e. colleges, school districts, counties, cities, etc.) for the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the organized US territories. NASPO is anon-profit association dedicated to strengthening the procurement community through education, research, and communications. The State of Minnesota, Minnesota Multistate Contracting Alliance for Pharmacy(MMCAP) is a subset of NASPO.The objective of this cooperative group is to obtain volume price discounts based on the collective volume ofthe numerous potential purchases by the individual States and their various governmental entities. The benefits of cooperative procurements are the potential administrative and contract management savings realized by contractors from their administration and management of a single, comprehensive NASPO ValuePoint contract, rather than multiple contracts for various State governments and governmental entities. Concurrently, the various State governmental entities also realize these same administrative and management benefits.
