CollegeBuys offers cost-effective solutions, informed by nearly two decades of experience in California Community Colleges. In this workshop, CollegeBuys Director, J.C. Sales, will share strategies for building successful educational technology consortiums to best serve students, and developing vendor relationships to preserve the most institutional dollars to reinvest in the classroom; he will inform the audience about existing technology resources to support local infrastructure and provide insight on exclusive CCC access to discounted technology tools aimed at bridging the technology resource gaps for CCC constituents.