Group Purchasing For Higher Education
Your procurement ally.
Everything your campus buys.
UniTrust gives colleges and universities enterprise-level purchasing power across every spend category, with pre-negotiated supplier contracts, no membership fees, and a named contact who knows your institution.
$0
Membership fees to
join UniTrust
1
quarter
Typical timeline from
signed to first order
50
states
National coverage, no
minimum institution size
1
contact
A named account lead,
not a call center
The Challenge
Universities manage spend across dozens of departments and hundreds of vendors, usually without the leverage large public institutions take for granted. The alternatives ask you to trade autonomy for savings: bundled operating models, multi-year lock-in, and pricing you never fully see. UniTrust changes the math without changing who runs your campus.
7–15%
Projected enrollment decline
across higher ed by 2030
Why UniTrust
A better way to buy. Across the board.
We reduce procurement cost and administrative burden for higher education — without asking you to give up control, flexibility, or institutional identity.
01 — Group Purchasing
National purchasing power
Contracts are pre-negotiated before you arrive. You access enterprise-level pricing on day one instead of running a bid process per category.
02 — Spend Analysis
Built around your budget
We review your current spend department by department and build a category-level proposal, then walk you through exactly how we got there.
03 — Ongoing Consultation
A recurrent relationship
Reviews typically run quarterly, with updated recommendations and a named account lead who knows your institution, not a portal, not a ticket queue.
What We Source
If your university buys it, we source it.
Six spend categories. One relationship. Dining is where most schools start, it is not where we stop.
Dining and Food Service
Food, produce, proteins, specialty items, and dining supplies through a national distributor network.
Food & produce
Proteins
Dining supplies
Facilities and Maintenance
Janitorial, grounds, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and building maintenance materials campus-wide.
Janitorial
MRO
Grounds
Office and Administrative
Supplies, paper, printing, furniture, and technology accessories for every department.
Supplies
Furniture
Technology and AV
Hardware, peripherals, classroom AV, and IT infrastructure across academic and administrative buildings.
Hardware
Classroom AV
IT
Safety and Sanitation
PPE, cleaning products, sanitization supplies, and safety equipment across all facilities.
PPE
Cleaning
Safety
Athletics and Recreation
Athletic equipment, training supplies, apparel, and recreation facility materials.
Equipment
Apparel
Training
Our Commitment
Trust and transparency. The foundation of everything.
No membership fees. No lock-in to us.
No membership fees
Nothing to join, nothing annual.
No commitment to UniTrust
No term length on our agreement with you.
No-obligation comparison
See the numbers before you decide anything.
No minimum institution size
500 students or 15,000, same access.
Pre-negotiated contracts
Ready to use, not bid per school.
Named account lead
One person who knows your campus.
Reviews, typically quarterly
Updated recommendations each cycle.
National coverage
Every state, no regional gaps.
How It Works
Four steps. One quarter to your first order.
01
Share your spend
Send current invoices or spend summaries for the categories you want reviewed. Dining is the usual starting point.
02
Get the comparison
We build a category-level side-by-side against our contracted pricing, and show you how each line was derived.
03
Choose your categories
Take one category or all six. There is no term length on our agreement and no requirement to expand.
04
Order and review
Most institutions are ordering within a quarter of signing, with reviews typically running quarterly after that.
Find out what your institution could be saving.
Send us your current spend by category. We come back with a side-by-side comparison, no obligation, no fee, no commitment to proceed.
Request a spend comparison
No obligation, no fee. We only use this to prepare your comparison.