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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ByteSpeed

ByteSpeed has been a leading IT solutions resource since 1999. The company provides customized computer hardware, enterprise networking solutions, and professional IT services nationwide. ByteSpeed has a proven track record of excellent customer service, offering a more personal level of service and support than larger vendors. Their support team is also located in-house, and you get a live technician on the phone within seconds. You can’t go wrong with ByteSpeed!

Contract Highlights

  • Industry leading warranties, including 4-year Accidental Damage Protection on Chromebooks, with unlimited claims

  • Pre-wired Chromebook carts

  • Free lifetime tech support

  • Free on-site parts closet for instant access to warranty replacement parts

  • Free shipping

  • Free imaging

  • Free asset tagging and asset tag in BIOS

  • Free custom bulk packaging

  • White glove service

  • Customization options

  • Risk-free evaluations

  • Free descriptive labeling

  • Free spreadsheets of MAC addresses and ByteSpeed serial numbers

  • Free automated OS naming

  • Free image recovery flash drive

  • Flexible split / delayed shipments

  • Flexible billing options

  • In-house repair service

  • Dedicated account manager

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Brian Hoots
Account Manager
218-227-0479
bhoots@bytespeed.com

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Kyocera

Whether you work for a small school district or a large university, a local government, or a non-profit organization, proper document management is critical. For over 60 years, Kyocera Document Solutions America has offered an award-winning line of document imaging and management systems for institutions of all sizes. Their robust and reliable multi-functional printers, software solutions, and extensive support teams guarantee your organization will operate efficiently and effectively without sacrificing security, simplicity, and cost. Kyocera helps administrators and students alike put knowledge to work – fostering an inspiring and professional learning environment.

When you partner with Kyocera, you’ll be able to streamline virtually all document-related processes and still control costs.

Contract Highlights

  • Connect with Gmail, Google Cloud, and more
  • Print, grade, and analyze bubble tests automatically
  • Print from MAC & PC, tablet, mobile iOS, and Android Devices
  • Bring-your-own-device capability with Kyocera mobile print
  • Utilize apps that meet government standards for energy efficiency, user accessibility, security & encryption
  • Seamless collaboration on documents, forms management, and cloud conversion

Grant user-specific access to network, database, and MFP functionalities:

  • Control color-printing capabilities
  • Charge-back for all print, copy, fax, and scan functions (ideal for public spaces, large offices, college campuses, and more)
  • Separate folder access for educators, administrators, and students

Contact Your Dedicated Account Manager:

Dan Woolly
National Account Manager
214-557-5207
dan.woolly@da.kyocera.com

Looking to work with your local Kyocera Dealer? The ILTPP/AEPA contract can also be used with these Illinois Dealers.

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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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School Specialty: School & Instructional Supplies

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 each calendar year annually 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.

Professional Development

  • School Specialty presented Professional Development opportunities can be designed to meet the specific needs of the district.
  • PD offerings include:
    • Customer Specified PD Day (PE, Art, Special Needs, STEM/STEAM – Contact your SSI Strategic Account Manager for available options)
    • Customer Specified PD Half Day
    • 21st Century Safe Schools: Creative Space Design for Project-Based Learning
    • 21st Century Safe Schools: Integrating Technology into a Physical Education Environment
    • 21st Century Safe Schools: STEM Integration & Environments
    • Web-based training is also available
    • Learn More About School Specialty Professional Development

21st Century Safe School — Safety & Security

  • The key building blocks of 21st Century Safe School – products, services, and expertise, including professional development – are already encompassed in the scope of our existing AEPA contracts. School Specialty and SSI Guardian can bundle these approved components together to offer a complete, turn-key solution based on a joint level of discovery and assessment.

Instruction & Intervention

  • School Specialty offers products from Educators Publishing Service (EPS) and Triumph Learning (TL) as net-priced items under the AEPA contract.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

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

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Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. is a leader in information management focused on enterprise content, technology optimization, and cloud services. Konica Minolta is reshaping the Workplace of the Future™ (www.reshapework.com). Konica’s offerings deliver solutions to improve customers speed to market, manage technology costs, and facilitate the sharing of information to increase productivity. The All Covered IT Services division offers a range of IT strategy, support, project and cloud computing solutions across all verticals. Konica Minolta has won numerous awards including Forbes Magazine’s Best Employers. The company has been recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys for nine consecutive years. Konica Minolta, Inc. has also been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for five years in a row.

The ILTPP/AEPA contract provides a broad offering of advanced technology offering advanced solutions in the following areas; Electronic Content Management, IT Services, Application Workflow Solutions, Specialty Products to Include 3D Printing, Managed Print Services, Facilities Management, Production Print, and Wide Format Systems, Work Smart Technology and a complete line of advanced Multi-Functional Devices. With this extensive value offering Konica Minolta can provide significant value, influence positive change and enhanced productivity to customers in State and Local Governments, Public and Private Education and Non-Profit work environments.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Marc Biga
National Director, Government & Education
720-290-2431
mbiga@kmbs.konicaminolta.us

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Quill: Office Supplies

Founded in 1956 and headquartered in Lincolnshire, IL, Quill.com serves the needs of over a million small to medium-sized businesses.  As a premier business-to-business office products provider, Quill.com sells everything from paper and ink and toner to cleaning supplies and technology with 24-hour-a-day access to more than 100,000 business essentials. Introduced in 1996, Quill.com was one of the first successful Web sites launched in the office products industry and has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Staples, Inc., since 1998.

Quill.com is an approved Association of Educational Purchasing Agencies (AEPA) vendor partner that provides everyday low prices on key essentials for your school district or organization. Learn more by visiting www.quill.com/aepa

Contract Highlights:

  • Up to 80% savings
  • 10% savings on ink and toner every day
  • Free shipping—no minimum

Don’t see what you’re looking for? Contact your dedicated Account Manager today for more access to edtech.

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Eden Wright
Assistant Partnership Manager
847-876-5494

 

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Quill: School & Instructional Supplies

Founded in 1956 and headquartered in Lincolnshire, IL, Quill.com serves the needs of over a million small to medium-sized businesses.  As a premier business-to-business office products provider, Quill.com sells everything from paper, ink, and toner to cleaning supplies and technology with 24-hour-a-day access to more than 100,000 business essentials. Introduced in 1996, Quill.com was one of the first successful Web sites launched in the office products industry and has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Staples, Inc., since 1998.

Quill.com is an approved Association of Educational Purchasing Agencies (AEPA) vendor partner that provides everyday low prices on key essentials for your school district or organization. Learn more by visiting www.quill.com/aepa

Don’t see what you’re looking for? Contact your dedicated Account Manager today for more access to edtech.

Contract Highlights:

  • Up to 80% savings
  • 10% savings on ink and toner every day
  • Free shipping—no minimum

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Eden Wright
Assistant Partnership Manager
847-876-5494

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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:

Tristen Tolar
K-12 Inside Sales Representative
(601) 399-5619
ttolar@howard.com

Justin Lettow
IL K12 Account Manager
(847) 309-7504
Jlettow@howard.com

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