Midwest Technology Products: Career & Technical Education

Midwest Technology Products has a 600-page catalog that showcases more than 10,000 products from over 400 vendors. Their dedicated, family-owned business has been committed to providing the highest quality products paired with exceptional customer service since 1909. Midwest Technology Products has tools for the next generation of designers and fabricators. Midwest is your source for durable, industrial-grade equipment, tools, and supplies for your shop or lab. Partnering with educators to prepare the workforce of tomorrow by providing innovative resources of uncompromising value – Midwest is here to help you.

Midwest Technology Products offers;

  • Abrasives
  • Arts and Crafts
  • Automotive
  • Building Trades
  • Career & Tech Ed
  • Drafting
  • Electrical
  • Foundry
  • Furniture and Storage
  • Hand tools
  • Hardware
  • Metalworking
  • Power tools
  • Safety
  • Small Engine
  • STEM
  • Welding
  • Woodworking
  • VO-AG

Contract Highlights:

  • Save time: place your order without first needing to get several quotes
  • Save Money: Receive an immediate 10% discount off the regular price
  • Save even more money: Receive FREE shipping on orders over $50

Contact your dedicated Account Manager

Sarah Cruz
Account Manager
712-224-7120
scruz@midwesttechnology.com

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AmTab Manufacturing

AmTab Manufacturing Corporation is a leading innovator in the K-12 Dining Commons and K-12 Food Courts marketplace providing customized tables, mobile Booth Systems, interior décor signage, and branding.  It is our customer base that has driven us to enter additional learning environments and products such as traditional classroom furniture, STEM environment furniture, outdoor furniture, music/performance risers & portable stages, and waste & recycling receptacles.

Our products contain the highest quality raw materials and construction features that exceed industry, ANSI, and BIFMA standards.  We also incorporate renewable, recycled, and recyclable materials in our products while also using design considerations for the environment.  LEED construction is used in the design of our products and we are MAS Green Certified.  As our products are “Made in the USA” from locally sourced materials, there is no threat of overseas shipping delays.

Our design team is available for space planning, furniture migration strategies, assistance with furniture selection, and the creation of drawings.  They work with the specific needs of a space and can visit the space if necessary.  Our design team offers elite spaces with stunning personalized graphics and designs as well as interior décor services.

Contract Highlights

  • 50% Discount from list price across our entire catalog, even those items outside the scope of the ILTPP/AEPA contract.
  • Available to you!! All operations are housed in our facility in Bensenville, Illinois, and readily available to Illinois member schools.  Manufacturing, product questions, design assistance, and shipping are accessible to help members make the decisions they need to make quick and complete projects efficiently.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager

Daniel Foot
Manager – Education Partnerships
630-301-7600
Daniel.foot@amtab.com

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Lakeshore Learning Materials: Furniture

At Lakeshore, we believe in creating products that matter. Developed by teachers for teachers, our hands-on learning materials are meticulously crafted to help children reach developmental and academic milestones through sixth grade, with furniture designed for any learning space through middle school. Plus, all Lakeshore products are backed by our unconditional guarantee of customer satisfaction. We’re also proud to offer comprehensive services like Complete Classrooms®, user-friendly eProcurement, and targeted professional development—making Lakeshore the one-stop-shop for all your classroom needs.

Contract Highlights

  • Classroom Furniture, Early Childhood Furniture, Elementary Furniture
  • Classroom Design Planning
  • Customized Learning Solutions, including but not limited to Special Education solutions
  • White-Glove Delivery & Installation

Contact your dedicated Account Manager

Tyler Domski
Vice President
(800) 421-5354, x2783
tdomski@lakeshorelearning.com

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Meteor Education

Meteor Education’s team of educational consultants, learning environment designers, and industry experts help communities create transformational learning experiences. Through purposeful design, we effectively combine methods, tools, and environments in a way that empowers teacher-student and student-to-student relationships. The end result is an increase in student engagement, capacity, and overall achievement.

Contract Highlights

  • Access to 43 vendors
  • Volume discount available at time of quote
  • FREE basic design package with the purchase of furniture
  • Project management, installation, and learning services are available
  • Meteor Education’s best contract pricing is available

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Please email our inside sales department for everyday orders and general inquiries, orders@meteoreducation. Please reference AEPA 022-A for contract pricing or let them know you are an ILTPP member.

Brandon Hillman
Director of Market Development
231-740-6351
bhillman@meteoreducation.com

Bid Department
800-699-7516
bids@meteoreducation.com

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Demco: Furniture

Like you, Demco believes children everywhere should have access to an education that prepares them for a lifetime of curiosity and growth. That’s why Demco’s mission is to help educators and librarians engage and empower the families they serve.

For nearly 120 years, Demco has anticipated students’ changing needs and helped educators and librarians meet them by creating and supplying innovative products and services. Along with essential supplies, critical equipment, and engaging learning materials, Demco offers an extensive collection of 21st-century furniture to help you create inspiring and inclusive learning spaces and experiences for your students.

Contract Highlights:

  • Receive 8 % off furniture listed in the Demco full line catalog or on www.demco.com
  • Receive discounts off MSRP Prices for the following product lines and manufacturers: Demco Proprietary Lines, Allied, Mooreco, Muzo, Haskell, Smith System, Paragon, Tenjam.
  • Design and installation services are available upon request.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Please contact our inside sales department for everyday orders and general inquiries. Please reference C10903 for contract pricing or let them know you are an ILTPP member.

McKenzie Encarnacion, Inside Sales Specialist

mckenziee@demco.com

Kristopher Snow, Vendor Contact

(866)-558-9058

contracts@demco.com

For larger projects needing installation or design, please contact our Business Development Representative

Lynne Gruneberg, Business Development Representative
608-242-2374
Fax: 800.730.8094
lynneg@demco.com

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Midwest Educational Furnishings

Midwest Educational Furnishings, Inc. is an experienced full-service school furniture and equipment company that provides learning environments that inspire students and support educators. Our mission is to enhance and improve learning experiences for students of all ages. We work closely with our clients, creating spaces that support active student learning and innovation. With over 100 manufacturing partners, we have solutions at various price points for upgrading conventional school environments, creating flexible and collaborative spaces, and developing technical learning areas.

Key Services Include:

  • Design Consultation
  • Space Planning
  • Budgeting
  • Product Selection and Specification
  • Project Management
  • Delivery and Installation

 

Midwest Educational Furnishings continues to grow its small business by doing things the right way and always putting the customers first. They currently cover the states of Illinois and Wisconsin and are always expanding.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Dave Welter
Vice President
630-291-5500
dwelter@mwfurnishings.com

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National Business Furniture

National Business Furniture was founded in 1975 with the mission to improve every workplace. From primary education to corporate learning, National Business Furniture offers a huge selection of furniture in a wide range of categories. It puts quality furniture at the forefront while providing unparalleled service both during and after the sale. National Business Furniture’s team of furniture experts are available to help you find the furniture that will fit your space and your budget. Plus, the company has hundreds of products that ship today, all covered by an exclusive Lifetime Guarantee.

National Business Furniture wants to make sure you are satisfied with your purchase. The company’s products are covered with a Lifetime Guarantee so you can rest easy knowing your needs are being well-taken care of. If there are any problems with the quality or workmanship of your purchase, National Business Furniture will adjust, repair or replace the item to your satisfaction.

NBF policies and initiatives are guided by the Three R’s: “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.” With this in mind, the company seeks an efficient and environmentally sensible workplace, as well as to promote environmental stewardship within the community.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Joanna Terry
Director of Education Sales
414-615-3684
joannat@nbf.com

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School Specialty: Furniture

School Specialty is much more than product brands you know well, like Sax, Childcraft, Frey, Sportime, Abilitations, and EPS. The company is your partner in problem-solving. Working with you, collaboratively, they look at the long game, integrating all brands and their products, services, and solutions to help you engage your students and make an impact with them. They have spent years focused on this, and this alone, to be your ultimate education partner. Only School Specialty combines an unmatched depth of knowledge plus this unequaled range of offering to create places where students can thrive.

The 21st Century Safe School

The goal of the idea is simple. The 21st Century Safe School aids district performance in all ways:  student outcomes, teacher satisfaction, retention, and community relationships.

Doing this rests on how expertise and products create transformative learning environments, rooted in the best practices of social-emotional learning, that help teachers teach and students learn.

Contract Highlights:

School Specialty has negotiated strategic, value-added items and services to create the ILTPP/AEPA contract.

  • 35% Off List Price on Supply items
    • FREE Shipping on Parcel Shipped Orders over $49
  • 14% Off List Price on Furniture items
    • FREE Shipping on all Truck Shipped Orders
  • A Market Basket of Deeply Discounted Everyday Items
  • 1% Rebate Back to YOUR District on ALL Online Orders
  • Freight Terms
    • FREE Shipping over $49 on 9 prefix items
    • 12% on 5 prefix items
    • FREE Shipping on 6 prefix items

Online Ordering Benefits

  • School Specialty offers a special 1% rebate to all districts that place electronic orders through the School Specialty website for the length of the contract. District rebates are paid annually each calendar year, directly to the purchas­ing district. The rebate is calculated on the net invoice amount of the product only, less shipping and other charges.

Additional Discounted Items

  • In addition to the AEPA market basket, School Specialty has the ability to offer 500+ additional deeply discounted items to a district. This will allow School Specialty to customize pricing around unique usage items within a specific district to offer customized pricing.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Belkys Quintana
Director of Business Development
786-314-8017
belkys.quintana@schoolspecialty.com

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Howard Technology Solutions

Howard Technology Solutions is the newest division of Howard Industries, Inc. – a $1 billion privately-held electrical products corporation. Howard Industries was founded more than 45 years ago in 1968 by Billy and Linda Howard in Ellisville, Mississippi. The Howards have grown their core business – distribution transformers – into the leader of their industry. Today, Howard Industries’ Transformer Division is the number one producer of distribution transformers in the United States and is housed in the largest transformer plant in the world – 2.2 million square feet. In addition, the company employs approximately 3,430 employees today.

Howard Technology Solutions is committed to providing customers with all technology-related products and services not limited to: Networking, Computers and computer peripherals, Software, and Audio Visual. Howard Technology Solutions strives to create, provide, and support superior products and services that meet or exceed customer needs.

Contract Highlights:

  • Dedicated Outside and Inside Representative for ILTPP members
  • US-Based Customer Service Team
  • Certified Engineers to assist with large scale projects
  • Ability to provide additional discounts for quantity orders
  • Product Training available for members and staff
  • Dedicated URL on howardcomputers.com for members to access pricing, placing orders, and tracking orders
  • Technical support available 24/7 365 days a week
  • Environmentally focused, Howard is EPEAT and ISO 14001:2015 certified

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Maggie Matherne
K-12 Inside Sales Representative
(601) 399-5814
mmatherne@howard.com

Erin Miller
Inside Sales Manager, K-12 Education
(601) 399-5720
elmiller@howard.com

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Bluum

Bluum  has solutions for every room in a school. From classrooms to auditoriums, sports stadiums to computer labs, cafeterias to TV studios, they offer technology that empowers students and accelerates learning. Trox offers a vast selection of products from leading manufacturers, and complete technology solutions including design, integration, installation, free product orientation, and professional development/training. With a foundation in the traditional AV space, Trox is also focused on emerging technologies including one to one (mobile learning) to address K-12’s common core requirements.

Contract Highlights

  • FREE shipping on all orders over $500
  • Receive up to 95% off list price on select products
  • A full-service company that stays with you through the entire process of implementation
  • National Leader in Education Technology & Collaboration Solutions

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Sarah Goncalves
Regional Vice President of Sales
888-226-5727 x3730
Sarah.Goncalves@bluum.com

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