eSchoolMall and the Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESA) Form Business Partnership to Enhance the Joint Buying Power of Education Service Agencies (ESAs) Nationwide.

eSchoolMall becomes preferred provider of administrative e-Procurement software for ESAs within AESAs extensive national membership.

Horsham, PA, November 15, 2002
eSchoolMall, the market share leader of procurement solutions (easyPurchase and easyBid) for K-12 schools, today announced that they are partnering with AESA to provide electronic group purchasing power to the member service agencies of AESA.

eSchoolMalls easyBid and easyPurchase software provides a complete procurement solution that elevates the buying power of schools and Service Agencies to the next level. Additionally, eSchoolMall will work with AESA to offer their membership the option of integrating these tools with their current back office and financial software systems in order to realize greater efficiencies in the accounting process. AESAs members will benefit from this relationship as they move from a primarily paper based and time consuming manual procurement process to eSchoolMalls efficient and cost effective e-Procurement process for securing the goods and services they need to operate their schools. We are coordinating our partnership with AESA through the efforts of Mike Winkler, eSchoolMalls National Sales Director for Purchasing Cooperatives. Mike has extensive experience in the mission and goals of AESA member organizations across the country," says Dan Corazzi, President and co-founder of eSchoolMall.

We are pleased to be partnering with eSchoolMall in offering our AESA members a cost-efficient and fully integrated electronic procurement solution," says Brian Talbott, Executive Director, AESA. We believe that easyPurchase and easyBid will be powerful tools for our members to utilize in their efforts to optimize their cooperative purchasing power."
We are especially pleased to be working with an organization such as AESA and we are confident that our procurement solutions will provide AESAs members with the tools that they need to streamline their purchasing processes and, at the same time, command better economic pricing through the use of our electronic bidding solution," says Andy Flanagan, CEO and co-founder of eSchoolMall.

About AESA
Headquartered in Arlington, Va., AESA is a professional organization serving Education Service Agencies (ESAs) nationwide. ESAs provide schools and other institutions with cost-effective, responsive and innovative programs and services. ESAs serve as partners with their clients to support educational missions. Publicly funded entities, ESAs are founded in statute and organized on a regional basis. ESAs reach out to preschoolers, school-age students, adult learners and educators alike.

AESA's research and publications departments identify and report important information and the association offers a wide variety of networking opportunities to foster the sharing of programs, ideas, and successes among agencies. In addition, AESA offers technical assistance directed toward regional, state, and federal education initiatives; business partnerships to evaluate products and services developed for school districts, and serves as the link for regional technology efforts. For more information, visit www.aesa-serves.org.

About eSchoolMall
eSchoolMall (www.eschoolmall.com) is the proven leader in providing procurement solutions to the education market, with well over 1,00 educational entities already using its software. The eSchoolMall solution electronically unites the classroom, the School Business Office, and the ESA Cooperative with their selected vendor community, to ensure the highest degree of efficiency in purchasing goods and services.
eSchoolMall's core purpose is to apply technology to make it easier for schools to go about their business of educating our kids.

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For more information, press only, contact:
Bobbie Sauter, eSchoolMall, 877-969-7246 x107, bsauter@eschoolmall.com

All other inquiries, contact:
Michael Winkler, eSchoolMall, 877-969-7246 x 208, mwinkler@eschoolmall.com

Kari Arfstrom, AESA, 703-875-0739, karfstrom@aasa.org