At Hughes Environmental we believe in keeping you safe, compliant and helping our customers save time and money. We are proud to provide services through reputable Global Purchasing Organizations (GPOS) Hughes is a vendor supplier in some of the leading national GPOs. GPO’s serve as an entity that is created to leverage the purchasing power of a group of businesses to obtain discounts form vendors, like Hughes, based on collective buying power of the GPO members.

Group purchasing is used in many industries to purchase raw materials and supplies, but it is common practice in the grocery industry, health care, electronics, industrial manufacturing and agricultural industries. In the healthcare field, GPOs have most commonly been accessed by acute-care organizations, but non-profit Community Clinics and Health Centers throughout the U.S. have also been engaging in group purchasing

Hughes is proud to be a vendor / supplier with the following Global Purchasing Organizations (GPOs)

Premier Inc.: Premier Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC) is a healthcare improvement company uniting an alliance of approximately 4,000 U.S. hospitals and health systems and more than 175,000 other providers and organizations.

As an industry leader, Premier has created one of the most comprehensive databases of actionable data, clinical best practices and efficiency improvement strategies.

HPS: HPS is group purchasing organization that serves the needs of more than 4,100 Members in 26 states. Member-owned and -operated since 1949, our core membership base is made up of organizations that have a direct impact on the communities they serve, from hospitals to senior living facilities to schools to camps and many more

HPS serves the Health Care, Senior Living, Education, Corporate Offices, and Municipalities verticals. Please Contact Hughes Environmental today if you believe your organization is a member of these GPOs and start saving today.

NCPA: NCPA utilizes state-of-the-art procurement resources and solutions that result in cooperative purchasing contracts that ensure all public agencies are receiving products and services of the highest quality at the lowest prices.NCPA works with a lead public agency, who competitively solicits master contracts. Contracts are based on quality, performance, and most importantly pricing.

There are over 90,000 agencies nationwide from both the public and nonprofit sectors that are eligible to utilize NCPA's cooperative purchasing contracts. These include, but are not limited to the following agency types:

• School Districts (including K-12, Charter schools, and Private K-12)
• Higher Education (including Universities, Community Colleges, Private Colleges, and Technical / Vocational Schools)
• Cities, Counties, and any Local Government
• State Agencies
• Healthcare Organizations
• Church/Religious
• Nonprofit Corporations
• Federal