Open now. The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS), a purchasing cooperative operated by Education Service Center Region 8, lists Solicitation 260804 — Medical Equipment, Supplies, and Services as a current RFP. The official TIPS eBid current-bids listing shows a bid date of August 6, 2026 and an exact proposal deadline of September 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM Central Time.
TIPS uses a cooperative IDIQ purchasing model for participating public entities. This creates a potential contracting vehicle broader than a single school district or healthcare site, although no guaranteed purchase volume, contract value, or per-vendor award amount is publicly disclosed.
Eligible respondents: qualified suppliers able to satisfy the controlling TIPS RFP requirements. Dr. Miltie appears able to respond directly as a vendor, subject to the complete solicitation’s mandatory qualifications, categories, forms, pricing structure and legal terms.
Atlas Opportunity Score: 94/100. This is a high-priority direct-vendor procurement because the category is explicitly medical equipment, supplies and services and the TIPS cooperative creates scalable public-sector purchasing potential.
N9+ Direct Vendor Fit: 94/100. N9+ aligns strongly as connected clinical-examination medical equipment for school health, pediatric/student care, rural/community access, remote clinician collaboration and healthcare delivery. Platform/licensing, implementation, integration, training and support should be included only where the controlling solicitation expressly permits them.
Contract value: not publicly disclosed. Atlas has not verified any guaranteed spend or per-vendor cap and does not infer one.
Current access note: the full solicitation package, addenda, pricing files and mandatory forms require TIPS eBid supplier login/registration. Atlas has flagged the package for retrieval before final response production.
Official source: TIPS eBid Current Bids.