National Joint Powers Alliance Gives Heavy Equipment Contract to Volvo CE

Sept. 9, 2015

2 min read

More than 50000 government agency members of NJPA will have streamlined access to purchase Volvo construction equipment — More than 50,000 government agency members of NJPA will have streamlined access to purchase Volvo construction equipment.

The National Joint Powers Alliance has awarded a contract to Volvo Construction Equipment to better serve state and municipal customers by streamlining access to equipment from the entire Volvo product line. The NJPA is a public agency that serves as a member-focused cooperative for more than 50,000 member agencies throughout the United States, as well as the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario.

The agency administers cooperative purchasing contracts that allow states and municipalities to purchase equipment without having to go through their own solicitation process.

Volvo has more than doubled its business with government contracts year to year since 2012.

“The NJPA contract is just one more way Volvo Construction Equipment can better serve government and municipal clients with our extensive equipment offering,” said Kathy Tedone, government buying contract specialist. “Through our North American network of dealers, government clients now have access to our full equipment lineup with an NJPA discount off list price. This includes everything from excavators, wheel loaders and skid-steer loaders, to articulated haulers, pavers and compactors, as well as our value brand, SDLG wheel loaders, all of which can be purchased without the need to go through the traditional solicitation process.”

An NJPA contract eliminates the need by municipalities to duplicate an individual solicitation.

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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.