School Specialty, LLC Cooperative Contract

Q: Early Childhood

Where the Child Comes FirstWith a full selection of early childhood educational products, including furniture, manipulatives, family engagement solutions, and social-emotional learning tools, Childcraft and School Specialty help you create an effective learning environment. We offer a complete assortment of high-quality, safe, and developmentally-appropriate products that support early learning standards and educational outcomes for children from birth through grade 2.

About School Specialty

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Looking for the right partner to meet the unique issues of this year’s purchasing cycle? Look no further than your purchasing cooperative contract with School Specialty. We deliver the best overall value on all your needs from supplies to furniture. As you save, you also add to your future annual rebate — bid contracts can’t give you that. And you get it all through a legal contractual vehicle.

Through our partnership, you receive:

35% off list price on supply items
14% off list price on individual furniture items
FREE shipping on parcel shipped items over $49 (pricing policy 9)
FREE shipping on non-parcel shipped items (pricing policy 6). For other non-parcel shipped items (pricing policy 5) a $9.95 minimum or 15% of the net subtotal of the items will apply.

Early Childhood

With a full selection of early childhood educational products, including furniture, manipulatives, family engagement solutions, and social-emotional learning tools, Childcraft and School Specialty help you create an effective learning environment. We offer a complete assortment of high-quality, safe, and developmentally-appropriate products that support early learning standards and educational outcomes for children from birth through grade 2.

PreK - 2 Early Childhood Resources & Furniture

We have a 75 year heritage in making a wide range of high quality, trusted products educators need to create engaging early childhood learning environments – from dramatic play areas and literacy centers to STEM areas and outdoor learning. All our products are expertly curated and our furniture is crafted with pride in our own facility in Pennsylvania.

U.S. Communities and National IPA, both wholly-owned subsidiaries of OMNIA Partners, have come together as OMNIA Partners, Public Sector. All public sector participants already registered with National IPA or U.S. Communities continue to have access to all contracts, with certain exceptions, in the portfolio and do not need to re-register to use a legacy National IPA, legacy U.S. Communities, or new OMNIA Partners contract. U.S. Communities and National IPA remain separate legal entities and lead agency contracts completed under each brand are effective and available for use through the contract’s approved term. In the event we believe re-registration is necessary for any reason, OMNIA Partners will let you know.

Furniture, Installation and Related Services

Region 4 ESC - TX

Contract Number: R191815

May 1, 2020 to April 30, 2023
Option to renew for two (2) additional one-year periods through April 30, 2025

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Educational School Supplies

Region 4 ESC - TX

Contract Number: R190503

July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2022
Option to renew for two (2) additional one-year periods through June 30, 2024
RENEWED THROUGH June 30, 2023

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Athletic, Physical Education Supplies, and Team Uniforms

Region 4 ESC - TX

Contract Number: R201105

January 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023
Option to renew for two (2) additional one-year periods through September 30, 2025

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Contract Highlights

School Supplies Contract

School and Office Supplies to Fit Every Budget

School Specialty provides a wide range of essential material, from classroom, art, PE and science supplies to complete learning environments. Along with national brands, School Specialty offers our unique proprietary brands including:

Abilitations - Special Needs Supplies
Childcraft - Early Childhood Products
Sax - Art Education Supplies
Sportime - Physical Education, Health & Wellness Supplies
School Smart - Classroom Supplies
Classroom Select- Furniture & Equipment

With such a wide range of products available from School Specialty through OMNIA Partners, your school or district can satisfy vertually all of your needs with a single online order. Not only will you receive competitive discounts by taking advantage of School Specialty's contracts with OMNIA Partners, but you can get other special benefits as well - such as pre-designed professional development (on-demand and in-person) and a volume rebate on supplies orders.

Adaptive & Inclusive

Abilitations Special Needs Products Make a Difference

Abilitations and School Specialty are committed to enhancing the lives of individuals with special needs. We strive to offer the most comprehensive assortment of products and solutions for all children, and the therapists, educators and families that support them. From theraputty to fidgets, to weighted blankets, swings and more we offer the most effective special needs resources and solutions available. We are determined to help make learning safe and fun and improve the quality of life for all children with special needs. It's an approach that's made Abilitations a trusted brand for therapists, educators, parents and caregivers for 25 years.

Early Childhood

Where the Child Comes First

With a full selection of early childhood educational products, including furniture, manipulatives, family engagement solutions, and social-emotional learning tools, Childcraft and School Specialty help you create an effective learning environment. We offer a complete assortment of high-quality, safe, and developmentally-appropriate products that support early learning standards and educational outcomes for children from birth through grade 2.

Athletic Supplies Contract

Sportime PE Equipment to Encourage Physical Activity

Physical fitness is critical to student success. Our products, including innovative physical education resources from Sportime, are carefully selected to enhance physical development, help children enjoy physical fitness, and show them how to be active throughout their lifetime. Through our complete selection of high-quality fitness and sports equipment, including balls, jump ropes, and bean bags, we are able to help educators engage and energize students to get active today and sustain a healthy lifestyle tomorrow.

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Sportime PE Equipment to Encourage Physical Activity For a Lifetime

Furniture Contract

We Furnish a Place for Learning

Our name says it all: Schools are our specialty. So when you source your furnishings through our Furniture & Installation Contract with OMNIA Partners you get more than just a list of furniture. You get access to a tiered discount structure off MSRP on over 60 furniture vendors and a dedicated Learning Environments team that will work closely with you providing design ideas and renderings - all as part of your contract.

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Science Contract

Tomorrow’s Inventors Are in Today’s Classrooms

No one can know exactly what STEM and STEAM challenges tomorrow will bring. But we do know the graduates best prepared for them will be the ones who are taught not just facts, but an integrated approach in both instruction and layout that teaches them how to think like innovators. Providing that kind of holistic education to them also demands a great deal from you. But to deliver on those high expectations, you need to start with the right resources. From furniture and products, to professional development and funding, we can bring you the help to inspire young thinkers and prepare graduates who will change the world.

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Insight & Inspiration for Creating a Makerspace in Your School

A growing trend is the construction of a separate makerspace where students can engage in hands-on, creative projects to support student design and creation. Whether a section of the library, converted computer lab, or spare classroom, your makerspace can inspire creativity and innovation by giving it the right mix of equipment and technology while being flexible enough to adapt as project needs change.See how School Specialty can help you serve current needs and allow for future growth.

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Resources

School Specialty | School Safety — School Safety

Belkys Quintana Director, Business Development, West Email: B elkys.quintana@schoolspecialty.com Phone: 786-314-8017	Helen Schleis Director, Business Development, East Email: h elen.schleis@schoolspecialty.com Phone: 678-823-5125

Customer Care National Phone Number: 1-888-388-3224 Mon-Fri: 7:30am-5:00pm National Fax Number: 1-888-388-6344	Online / Electronic Orders and Inquiries: http://www.schoolspecialty.com Email: onlinehelp@schoolspecialty.com Phone: 800.513.2465 Fax: 800.513.2467

School Specialty, LLC

School Supplies, Educational Furniture

Furniture, Installation and Related Services

Region 4 ESC - TX

Contract Number: R191815

Executive Summary

Master Agreement Documents

Response Evaluation

Solicitation Process

Educational School Supplies

Region 4 ESC - TX

Contract Number: R190503

Executive Summary

Master Agreement Documents

Response Evaluation

Solicitation Process

Athletic, Physical Education Supplies, and Team Uniforms

Region 4 ESC - TX

Contract Number: R201105

Executive Summary

Master Agreement Documents

Response Evaluation

Solicitation Process

Previous Contract

School and Office Supplies to Fit Every Budget

Abilitations Special Needs Products Make a Difference

Where the Child Comes First

Sportime PE Equipment to Encourage Physical Activity

We Furnish a Place for Learning

Tomorrow’s Inventors Are in Today’s Classrooms

Insight & Inspiration for Creating a Makerspace in Your School

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