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P.O. Box 400, Austin, Texas 78767 <br />800.695.2919 • buyboard.com <br />NATIONAL PURCHASING COOPERATIVE <br />INTERLOCAL PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT <br />This Interlocal Participation Agreement ("Agreement") is made and entered into on the date indicated <br />below by and between the National Purchasing Cooperative ("Cooperative"), an administrative agency of <br />cooperating local governments and other governmental entities, acting on its own behalf and the behalf of all <br />participating governmental entities, and the undersigned governmental entity ("Cooperative Member"). <br />I. RECITALS <br />WHEREAS, the National Purchasing Cooperative was formed on May 26, 2010, by certain local <br />governments that entered into an Organizational Interlocal Agreement; and <br />WHEREAS, the purpose of the Cooperative is to facilitate compliance with state procurement <br />requirements, to identify qualified vendors of commodities, goods and services, to relieve the burdens of the <br />governmental purchasing function, and to realize potential economies of scale, including administrative cost <br />savings, for Cooperative Members; <br />NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants, promises and obligations contained <br />herein, the undersigned Cooperative Member and the Cooperative agree as follows: <br />II. TERMS AND CONDITIONS <br />I. Adopt Organizational Interlocal Cooperation Agreement. The Cooperative Member by the <br />execution or acceptance of this Agreement hereby adopts and approves the Organizational Interlocal <br />Agreement, as last amended and restated, which agreement is incorporated herein by reference (and is available <br />from the Cooperative upon request). The Organizational Interlocal Agreement establishes the Cooperative as <br />an administrative agency of its collective participants, and Cooperative Member agrees to become a participant <br />or additional party to the Organizational Interlocal Agreement. <br />2. Term. The initial term of this Agreement shall commence on the date it is executed by both parties and <br />shall automatically renew for successive one-year terms unless sooner terminated in accordance with the <br />provisions of this Agreement. If the Cooperative Member is an existing Cooperative Member that joined the <br />Cooperative by executing a participation agreement which authorized amendment upon the Cooperative <br />providing prior written notice, then this Agreement will be deemed an Amendment by Notice, effective on the <br />61' day that the Cooperative Member is sent notice of this Agreement. In addition, this Agreement will <br />continue to automatically renew for successive one-year terms on the anniversary date of the Cooperative <br />Member's initial term (not the effective date of the amendment), unless the Agreement is sooner terminated in <br />accordance with the provisions herein. <br />(Revised by the Cooperative Board of Trustees on August 9, 2023.) Page I of 7 <br />