# OMNIA Partners The **national cooperative-purchasing umbrella** under which several of the corpus's surveillance procurements ride. OMNIA Partners, Inc. describes itself as "the nation's most experienced cooperative purchasing organization serving state and local government, K-12 education, and higher education institutions" (primary public record, [OMNIA Partners — About Us](../../web%20archive/2026-06-06/omniapartners.com/omnia-partners-about-us.md)). For Arkansas surveillance procurement, OMNIA Partners matters because it is the **common parent of two cooperative vehicles that look distinct on the face of the contracts**: the OMNIA Partners public-sector cooperative LRPD piggybacks for Flock and Cellebrite, and the [[NCPA Cooperative Purchasing (Region 14 ESC)|NCPA]] cooperative the Arkansas State Police rides for its Leonardo/ELSAG procurement. NCPA became part of OMNIA Partners through a **2022 acquisition**. ## Corporate identity and history Per the cooperative's own About page (primary public record, [OMNIA Partners — About Us](../../web%20archive/2026-06-06/omniapartners.com/omnia-partners-about-us.md)): | Year | Event | |---|---| | 2017 | OMNIA Partners brand launched via acquisition of Corporate United + Prime Advantage (private-sector GPO expansion) | | 2018 | Acquired **U.S. Communities** — "the largest and most experienced cooperative purchasing organization in public procurement" | | 2021 | Acquired Buyers Access + PAS (multifamily real-estate GPOs) | | **2022** | **Acquired NCPA** (National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance) — extends OMNIA into state/local government + K-12 + higher-ed cooperative purchasing | | 2023 | Acquired Premier, Inc.'s non-healthcare GPO operations | "OMNIA Partners®, OPUS®, and their respective logos are registered trademarks of OMNIA Partners, Inc." The Selex ES / Leonardo NCPA RFP 15-22 bid response — the competitive procurement underneath ASP's NCPA Contract #05-68 — independently confirms that "NCPA is now part of the OMNIA Partners cooperative-purchasing umbrella" (primary public record, [Selex ES NCPA RFP 15-22 Response](../../web%20archive/2026-06-05/omniapartners.com/selex-es-response-ncpa-rfp-15-22.md)). ## Roles in this corpus OMNIA Partners (directly, or through its NCPA subsidiary) is the cooperative-purchasing vehicle of record for three corpus procurements across two jurisdictions: - **LRPD — Flock LPR renewal.** Little Rock's 115-camera / $690K Flock renewal (Resolution 16846) is a piggyback on the **OMNIA Partners / Cobb County GA Contract #23-6692-03**, sourced via reseller Insight Public Sector ([[Flock LPR Renewal (Resolution 16846)]]). - **LRPD — Cellebrite.** The Cellebrite on-device extraction buy rides the **OMNIA EDU Contract R191902** via reseller Carahsoft ([[Cellebrite Inseyets-UFED Purchase (Carahsoft Quote 49570615)]]). - **ASP — Leonardo / ELSAG ALPR.** The Arkansas State Police's ELSAG procurement rides **NCPA Contract #05-68** (Region 14 ESC, Abilene TX), which is administered by [[NCPA Cooperative Purchasing (Region 14 ESC)|NCPA]] — an OMNIA Partners subsidiary since 2022 ([[Term Contract 4600055190 and PO 4502235324 — Initial Leonardo ELSAG Buy]]). The analytic significance is consolidation: **two of the corpus's three "cooperative-purchasing piggyback" procurements ultimately trace to a single private cooperative-purchasing parent.** The cooperative-purchasing track ([[Cooperative Purchasing Vehicle]]) lets an Arkansas agency adopt another government's competitively-bid contract instead of bidding its own; OMNIA Partners is the largest single supplier of those adoptable contracts in the corpus. ## Notes - OMNIA Partners is a **private cooperative-purchasing organization**, not a government entity; under the source-tier hierarchy its self-published history contextualizes (does not establish) what Arkansas agencies did. The Tier-1 facts are the Arkansas contract references that name the OMNIA / NCPA vehicles; OMNIA's corporate lineage is the Tier-2 context. - The distinction between "OMNIA Partners" and "[[NCPA Cooperative Purchasing (Region 14 ESC)|NCPA]]" on the face of the LRPD vs. ASP contracts initially read as two different cooperatives; the 2022 acquisition resolves them to one parent. This is the same correction that retired the corpus's earlier mis-identification of ASP's vehicle as "TIPS" (a *separate* cooperative administered by Region 8 ESC, not under OMNIA) — see [[NCPA Cooperative Purchasing (Region 14 ESC)]]. - A dedicated Wayback snapshot of the About page could not be obtained 2026-06-06 (omniapartners.com is Wayback-blocked, HTTP 520); the textual content is preserved in the local archive extract. *Open lint: retry the Wayback save, or capture an OMNIA corporate registration (Delaware/Tennessee SoS) for a non-self-published corporate-identity anchor.*