Services Overview

PurchasePooling's goal is to enable buyers to create a better vehicle through collaboration, alleviate the administrative and procedural burdens of procurement, and access quantity discounts. We have created a proprietary approach to developing specifications. One of our experts will spend a day with you to select components and options in an easy to use online format to build a specification that meets your needs. By combining your needs with the needs of other agencies across the country, our procurement process identifies core commonalities across the pool while preserving your ability to customize your bus to satisfy regional and local requirements.

Process Diagram Process

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Transit Industry Experience

PurchasePooling is focused initially in the transit bus industry. Our staff consists of individuals with substantial experience in government contracting, specification development, vehicle audits and condition assessment inspections. We have developed our procurement process with input from transit agencies across the United States as well as from bus manufacturers, Federal Transportation Administration, American Public Transportation Association and State DOT’s.

Procurement Solution

PurchasePooling provides the tools to help you manage the entire pooled procurement process. Our tools prepare the complete request for proposal (“RFP”) package for each transit agency and coordinate timing of delivery schedules and ensure compliance with FTA guidelines. Our procurement process reduces the time and expense of transit agencies associated with specification development, and preserves the ability to customize buses for local and regional requirements.

Manufacturer Benefits

Our process normalizes specification requirements across buyers increasing production efficiencies for manufacturers. PPSI’s tools also create a single request for proposal (“RFP”) for the pool of transit agencies reducing the manufacturer’s cost and time to prepare and submit a proposal. Furthermore, our approach to transit bus procurement reduces manufacturers’ sales and marketing cost to identify and target transit bus customers. Savings the manufacturer can share with transit agencies through lower prices.

We believe the economies of scale and pooling resources will be of great value to both transit agencies and the manufacturers. Our procurement solution increases process efficiencies and leads to the creation of a higher quality bus.