Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 492,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

Boston Consulting Group is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. Our success depends on a spirit of deep collaboration and a global community of diverse individuals determined to make the world and each other better every day.

As a full-service systems integrator and managed services provider with 76,000 professionals worldwide, CGI delivers complex public sector IT programs with a collaborative approach that is based on shared values with our clients. We provide creative IT solutions that drive government efficiency and cost containment—including our built-for-government ERP, tax, and health and human service offerings. For more information visit www.cgi.com/stateandlocal.

At Coupa we have a higher purpose. From our own operations to what we offer clients, we are focused on one thing: business value. It’s more than how much you paid for something or what a new solution saved. Value is the quantifiable, measurable improvement that a solution or process delivers. It’s explicit, but it isn’t a singular achievement or a moment in time.

Deloitte’s Government and Public Services practice is designed for impact. Our ideas, technology, and outcomes—and more than 12,000 people across the country—bring a fresh perspective that breaks through barriers of turf and inertia so people in government can get things done. That takes harmony among different disciplines, alignment of people’s diverse passions, and a spirit of inclusion that centers on the larger purpose of governing. At every level of public sector operations, dedicated professionals can look to Deloitte for the strategy, technology, and management tools that will help them carry out their missions in new and effective ways—from cyber and IT modernization to big data and analytics, cloud, anti-fraud, and leadership services.

People, Ideas, Technology, and Outcomes—all designed for impact.

At EY, our purpose is Building a better working world. The insights and quality services we provide help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

GovDeals, Inc., was founded in 1999 by former procurement professionals who innovated the online government surplus auction industry. To date, more than 10,000 government entities – including 27 state surplus operations – have shifted some or all of their auctions to www.GovDeals.com. GovDeals has numerous cooperative contracts to include NASPO ValuePoint (pka WSCA) and NJPA. With 1.2 million completed auctions and over $1.4 billion in auction sales, GovDeals has the experience needed to serve State Agencies.

W.W. Grainger, Inc., with 2015 sales exceeding $10 billion, is North America’s leading broad-line supplier of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) products, with an expanding global presence. Grainger is a business-to-business distributor of products used to maintain, repair or operate facilities. Millions of businesses and institutions worldwide rely on Grainger for lighting, safety, motors, hand tools, janitorial supplies, fasteners and much more. Our customers include federal, state and local government agencies nationwide. Grainger's dedicated Government sales team consists of more than 400 experienced sales professionals who understand the unique challenges of our government customers. Grainger has been awarded many competitively bid and awarded federal, state, local and cooperative contracts to simplify and streamline government procurement. Grainger is committed to helping you reduce costs, increase worker productivity, operate sustainably and provide a safe workplace for your employees. Let us help you get the products you need, when you need them.

Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that help our clients outwit complexity and position them for future growth and success. The company has approximately 16,000 professionals in over 50 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies.

Ivalua is the Procurement empowerment platform. Recognized as a Leader by Gartner and other analysts, Ivalua’s Source-to-Pay suite is leveraged by leading federal, state and local governments and over 300 leading companies across the globe to manage over $500 Billion in direct and indirect spend. The platform’s combination of ease-of-use, depth, breadth, and flexibility ensures high employee and supplier adoption, rapid time to value and the ability to meet unique or evolving requirements, evidenced by the industry’s leading 98%+ retention rate.

At JLL, we take pride in doing things differently. We see the built environment as a powerful medium with which to change the world for the better. By combining innovative technology and data intelligence with our world-renowned expertise, we’re able to unveil untapped opportunities for success.

We help buy, build, occupy and invest in a variety of assets including industrial, commercial, retail, residential and hotel real estate. From tech startups to global firms, our clients span industries including banking, energy, healthcare, law, life sciences, manufacturing, and technology.

KPMG LLP is a U.S. professional services firm providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. Having worked with government organizations for more than 100 years, KPMG understands how to help State Chief Administrators navigate their transformation journeys to streamline business and operating models and improve service delivery to citizens. We work hard to make your goal our goal: creating positive change that benefits government workers, citizens, and communities.

McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm that serves leading businesses, governments, non governmental organizations, and not-for-profits. We help our clients make lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals. Over nearly a century, we’ve built a firm uniquely equipped to this task.

Microsoft empowers every government agency and person on the planet to achieve more.

NEOGOV is the leading provider of an integrated HR, payroll, and talent management solution for the public sector. NEOGOV customers report increased employee productivity and engagement, time and cost savings, improved regulatory requirement compliance, and reduced paper processes, with a net result of better services for citizens. Serving over 6,000 organizations, NEOGOV supports organizations with intelligent HR for the public sector.

Driven by a purpose to eradicate waste and maximize the value of every dollar spent, Periscope Holdings is transforming public sector procurement with technology and solutions for both buyers and suppliers. Buyer solutions include BuySpeed eProcurement, BidSync Source cloud-based eSourcing, NIGP Code, NIGP Consulting. Supplier solutions include BidSync bid notification subscription service. Our exciting, new public sector marketplace brings unprecedented benefits to both audiences. Periscope Holdings powers more US government eProcurement systems than any other eProcurement provider and is trusted by hundreds of thousands of suppliers. Visit www.periscopeholdings.com to learn more.

Founded by a pharmacist, Rx Savings Solutions helps people and payers reduce prescription drug costs through a combination of clinical technology, transparency, member engagement and concierge support. Currently 17 million members have access to personalized recommendations for lowering prescription costs and dedicated pharmacy experts to help navigate benefits, providers, and pharmacies.

Acquired by Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL) on April 21, 2021, NIC is a leader in digital government solutions and payments, partnering with government to deliver user-friendly digital services that make it easier and more efficient to interact with government. NIC and Tyler are united in their mission to empower public sector entities to operate more efficiently and connect more transparently with their constituents and with each other.

UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) is the leader in workforce management solutions that enable public sector organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Over 2500 government customers use UKG today for time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, and labor analytics. UKG’s state government customers specifically benefit from a workforce management solution in many ways.Create efficiencies by eliminating current paper processes used to track employee work and leave time Improve adherence to labor laws and union policies while having real-time visibility to dollars spent on discretionary overtimeIncrease employee satisfaction by automating manual workforce processes and offering a self-service environment.

Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, planning, and analytics applications designed for the world's largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday.