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56th Annual Rutgers University

Public Purchasing Educational Forum

 

Save the date April 28-30, 2026, Resorts, Atlantic City

 

Co-sponsored by:

Rutgers Center for Government Services
Northern New Jersey Chapter of NIGP
Southern New Jersey of NIGP
Governmental Purchasing Association of New Jersey
New Jersey Association of County Purchasing Officials
 

Registration Information - Coming in February 2026!

 

Rutgers University, Center for Government Services is pleased to announce vendor opportunities for the 55th Annual Educational Forum at the Resorts, Atlantic City. This two-day conference will run from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM on Wednesday, April 30th, and 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM on Thursday, May 1st giving vendors the opportunity to display their goods and explain their services to more than 250 purchasing agents from municipal and county governments, state and county colleges, school districts, as well as public authorities and utilities.

Vendor space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Credit cards and e-checks are accepted. 

VENDOR REGISTRATION  is NOT OPEN YET.

Event set-up details will be provided to registered vendors two weeks before the event.

Vendor registration includes:

  • Registration for two company representatives (breakfast and lunch included for both days)
  • One six-foot skirted table with two chairs
  • Standard electrical outlet
  • Wastebasket
  • Entrance to all conference sessions and events

Questions? Contact Debbie Steinert at dsteiner@docs.rutgers.edu

 

Rutgers Center for Government Services is pleased to announce a Valenti/Stanton Scholarship for the new QPAs!

Joseph Valenti and Mary Lou Stanton were outstanding instructors in the Public Purchasing program at Rutgers CGS. They educated and supported thousands of public purchasing professionals in the state of New Jersey.

The principal aim of this scholarship is to offer financial support to the recently certified QPAs to attend the Annual Rutgers University Public Purchasing Educational Forum. The scholarship will cover the cost of the forum and hotel accommodation for the winning applicant. It is the applicant’s responsibility to receive approval from the supervisor to attend the Forum.

The application is not available yet. 

Scholarship Application Form

Resorts Casino Hotel

1133 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ 0840

Conference Floor Map

CONFERENCE PROGRAM 

PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINAR

                             

 

For continuing education credits awarded to the forum sessions, 

please click on the CEUs LIST.

Isabel Garcia, GPANJ President, QPA, City of Trenton

Gordon H. Ball, Jr., RPPO, CPPO, QPA - Executive Director, Southern New Jersey Chapter NIGP

David Brown, Township Manager, Township of Ocean

Madeline Caterinicchio, Director of Purchasing and Inventory, Middlesex Couty College 

Olga Chaban, Ed.D. - Sr. Program Coordinator, Center for Government Services, Rutgers University

Joseph Clark, QPA, RPPO, CPPB - Purchasing Manager, Ocean City 

Melissa Kosenski, RPPO, QPA, Purchasing Agent, County of Somerset

Mary “Trish” Mooney, QPA, RPPO - Purchasing Agent, Atlantic City (Retired)

Nicola Reid, QPA, RPPO - Purchasing Agent, Stafford Township

Gerald Reiner, Rutgers CGS Instrcutor

Apryl Roach, QPA, RPPS, Administrative Manager, Franklin Township Sewerage Authority

Laura M. Scutari, MPA, QPA, CCPO, RPPO - Director of Purchasing, Union County

Rick Thomas, Purchasing Agent, Atlantic County Utilities Authority

You can download the Forum 2025 handouts here. If a session has no handouts, we have not received them from the presenter.