Intermunicipal central purchasing body

A central purchasing body that works for several municipalities together.

An intermunicipal central purchasing body groups procurement for several municipalities. It is a municipal-level variant of the central purchasing body model.

The practical gain is shared expertise and pooled volume, especially where individual municipalities would not each run complex procurement often enough to build deep specialization.

For bidders, that usually results in clearer and more uniform procedures than dealing with multiple small municipal tenders separately.