Allen ISD uses Cooperative Contracts per Board Policy CH (Legal), TEA, GC-Sect. 791, LGC 271.081-271.083.  Allen ISD participates in these contracts for the purchase of goods and services by agreement with another local government or with the state or state agencies that satisfy the requirement of competitive bids per the local government code. 

The following is a list of cooperatives that Allen ISD is a current member of:

• 1GPA

• Allied States Cooperative (Region 19)

• Central Texas Purchasing Alliance (CTPA)

• Choice Partners

• Collin County Governmental Purchasers Forum

• E&I Cooperative Services

• Educational Purchasing Cooperative of North Texas (EPCNT)

• Equalis Group

• Epic 6 (Region 6)

• Harris County Department of Education Cooperative

• Houston-Galveston Area Council (HGAC)

• National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance (NCPA)

• Omnia Partners

• PACE Purchasing Cooperative (Region 20)

• Regional Educational Service Center 10

• Sourcewell

• Southeast Texas Purchasing Coop (Region 5)

• Tarrant County Purchasing Cooperative

• TASB - BuyBoard

• Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (Texas Smartbuy)

• Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR)

• Texas Procurement & Support Service (TPASS)

• TIPS