August 2023 Volume 6, Issue 1

Trust with Tarkett

Tarkett provides flooring for CP members

If you could have one company that could handle all your flooring needs - from start to finish, including maintenance - it would be Tarkett. Tarkett designs, manufactures and installs flooring solutions for hospitals, schools, housing, hotels, offices, stores and sports fields. They serve customers in more than one hundred countries.

With a history of 140 years, Tarkett is a worldwide leader in innovative and sustainable flooring and sports surface solutions, with many manufacturing sites. The total entity is referred to as the Tarkett Group. The Group has 12,000 employees, 25 R&D centers, eight recycling centers and 34 production sites.

The Source One Turnkey Department (an internal department of Tarkett, located in Dalton, Ga.) manages the complexities of flooring transformations, from inception through completion, including:

• Estimating services
• Proposals and order entry
• Single purchase and contact point
• Product design and manufacturing
• Flexible, preferred flooring procurement
• Furniture lift
• Delivery and installation
• Existing flooring recycling
• Maintenance training
• Long-term onsite support
• Imaginations^TM Custom Design Floor Program

"Our team is Tarkett’s customer-centric account management program, created 25 years ago when a customer asked to issue one purchase order for both material and labor, providing single-source responsibility," said Donna Mulkey, regional Source One coordinator.

Source One channels all the intricate details of flooring management and installation to professional partners for a complete turnkey solution, allowing the customer the freedom to focus their full attention on the project itself.

"CP has helped by keeping prices manageable and bringing in more customers interested in using the program," Mulkey said. "We have a current NPS (Net Promoter Score) of 96/100 for customer satisfaction."

To learn more information about Tarkett, visit commercial.tarkett.com, or contact Jeff Newman, account executive of Houston and surrounding area, at 214-749-0663, or jeff.newman@tarkett.com.

Rebate Program

Eligible procurement for the CP rebate program will run through Aug. 31, 2023. We will accept reporting for 45 days after to allow entities to close their books for the fiscal year and report accordingly to the order portal.

Members do not have to report usage with Amazon or WEX. Only the following food contracts need to be reported:

21/035TP BOTTLE WATER, COOLERS AND OTHER BEVERAGE-RELATED PRODUCTS; 23/019TP CAFETERIA TRADES CSP and 23/038TP FOOD EQUIPMENT, PARTS, REPAIR, INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE & SMALL WARES & RELATED ITEMS & SERVICES.

REMINDER: All correspondence starting with the vendor's quote through the purchase order MUST have the CP contract number (e.g. 23/017KN-01 Art Supplies and Related Items).

To submit reporting, select the Submit Reporting Activity button below to navigate to the website, then select Report Your CP Contract Activity.

Appreciation for Top Performing Members

Choice Partners celebrates its top members by recognizing them each year. Above and to the right are two of our members that were recognized.

Rick Johnson/CFO & Vince Gomez/business manager of Bay City ISD.

Back Row: Elvira G. Casanova/PO clerk,

Sandy Villanueva-Hernandez/senior buyer,

Marisela Ayala/Senior Buyer,

Rebekah Rivas/advertisement clerk,

Nora Michaels/administrative assistant,

Ramon Ocejo/buyer

Seated: Mayra Castañeda/travel specialist, Rosario Peña/purchasing director,

Delia R. Gonzalez/purchasing coordinator, all of Brownsville ISD.

HCDE Interlocal Agreements with new members: Stephenville ISD, Stephenville, Texas; and Titus County, Mount Pleasant, Texas.

HCDE Out-of-state new members: Allegany District, Allegany, N.Y.; Boulder Valley School District, Boulder, Colo.; Cape Fear Public Utility Authority, Wilmington, N.C.; Cascadia College, Bothell, Wash.; Cincinnati State Technical & Community College, Cincinnati, Ohio; Gloucester Township Public Schools; Blackwood, N.J.; Thrive Alabama, Huntsville, Ala.

Recently Awarded Contracts: Athletic Surfaces and Related Items, Roofing, Waterproofing, and Related Items.

Recently Renewed Contracts: Affordable Care Act; Custodial Supplies;

Electric Vehicle Charging Station; Financial Software; Industrial Equipment, Rent, Lease and Purchase; MEP-JOC; Scientific Equipment/Instructional Resources; and Third Party Code Inspection Resources.

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