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Special Assistance Committee

The TxPPA Special Assistance Committee provides help to smaller public purchasing departments in Texas with management issues or help to establish public purchasing departments.  For more information about the TxPPA Special Assistance Program, click here .

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Listserv

What is Listserv? Listserv is an electronic mailing list (email) available to TxPPA members that have subscribed to the TxPPA Listserv. Using the Listserv, subscribers can communicate with each other to ask questions or discuss common topics of interest.

How does it work?  You send an email to one address and all subscribers receive it.  When you respond to a post, your response is received by all subscribers.  So whether or not you are actively participating in a discussion thread, you will receive all of the emails as the other subscribers send them to the Listserv.  To post to this list, send an email to: listserv@txppa.org.

What if I don’t want all those emails?  You can sign up for the daily digest version of the Listserv.  A Daily Digest will be sent to you once a day, which contains all of the posts made to the Listserv that day.

How to I subscribe or unsubscribe to the TxPPA Listserv?  First, you must be a TxPPA member.

To join the TxPPA Listserv, visit http://mail.txppa.org/lists and follow the on-screen instructions.  Once the moderator activates your account, you’ll receive a welcome message with Listserv rules and tips for posting.

To contact the moderator of this list or to request a posting to the list, send email to: listserv-moderator@txppa.org.

If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (e.g., switch to or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), login to your account page using your email address and password at: http://mail.txppa.org/ips-cp.

You can also unsubscribe by sending an email to the mailing list with a subject of 'unsubscribe' (without the quotes).  You will then get a verification email to validate that you want to unsubscribe. 

Links to useful Texas public purchasing websites:

Consumer Price Indexes (CPI)
http://www.bls.gov/cpi/

Davis-Bacon Wage Determinations

http://www.access.gpo.gov/davisbacon/index.html

 

Department of Information Resources (DIR)
http://www.dir.state.tx.us

 

Institute for Supply Management (ISM)
http://www.ism.ws

 

LBJ School of Public Affairs

http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/profdev/calendar.php

 

National Institute of Governmental Purchasing (NIGP)
http://www.nigp.org

 

National Purchasing Institute (NPI)
http://www.npiconnection.org

Texas Association of Counties (TAC)
http://www.county.org

 

Texas Attorney General Opinions

http://www.oag.state.tx.us/opinopen/opinhome.shtml

 

Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
http://www.window.state.tx.us

 

Texas Legislature Online

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/

 

Texas Municipal League (TML)
http://www.tml.org

 

Texas Procurement and Support Services (TPASS) 

http://www.window.state.tx.us/procurement  

 

Texas Statutes

http://www.legis.state.tx.us

 

 

Additional Publications

     «Guide to County Purchasing

     «TxPPA Constitution and Bylaws
     «2010 Texas Municipal Procurement Laws Made Easy

        - Office of the Attorney General of Texas