What are Master Price Agreements (MPAs)?
A Master Price Agreement, acronym MPA, provides for broad categories of goods and services for a specified period on a statewide basis. State agencies order their goods and services off relevant MPAs, as their agency needs arise. Statewide applicability (state law) permits quasi-agencies, municipalities, and school districts to piggy-back the State’s MPA pricing contracts, at the vendor’s discretion. An exception to this is in some circumstances Rhode Island participates in Cooperative Agreements hosted by a cooperative purchasing organization who performs the Bid Solicitation Process on the organization’s solicitation platform and allows public procurement entities to participate in them.