[CAUT] piano purchases

[G Cousins]

My favorite quote:
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. 
Alan Shepard
 
Gerry C

 
> To: caut at ptg.org
> From: rwest1 at unl.edu
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:28:06 -0500
> Subject: [CAUT] piano purchases
> 
> Jim Busby's comment about buying in quantity to get a good price made 
> me wonder why colleges/universities don't work together to get the 
> same kind of deals that Jim is talking about. Why don't the big 
> conferences (Big 12, Big 10, SEC, etc) agree to share purchasing of 
> common items the conferences all need? It would be a win-win 
> situation. Schools would get a discount and manufacturers would sell 
> pianos. Maybe such program already exist but not directed toward 
> schools of music.
> 
> Richard West
> 
> 
 		 	   		  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100831/c8d17c3c/attachment.htm>