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OECM Supplier Partner · Agreement 2025-470

Buy commercial office furniture under OECM Agreement 2025-470 — no separate RFP.

Brant Business Interiors is registered with OECM under our parent entity, Brant Basics, as an authorized Supplier Partner under Agreement 2025-470. Ontario's broader public sector — school boards, hospitals, municipalities, colleges, universities, and not-for-profits — can buy our full furniture catalog at OECM-negotiated terms without running a separate tender. One quote, one PO, one invoice.

What OECM means

You've already done the procurement. We honour it.

OECM (Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplace) negotiates pre-tendered agreements on behalf of the broader public sector — schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, municipalities, and not-for-profits. If your organization is OECM-eligible, you can buy from any approved supplier under those agreed terms without running your own RFP.

Brant Business Interiors is registered under Agreement 2025-470 as the current OECM Supplier Partner in the office furniture category. Our pricing, warranty terms, delivery windows, and product range are already vetted against OECM's procurement standards. You skip the tender. We skip the markup. Everyone keeps their afternoon.

What you get under the agreement: line-item quotes in 1 business day, free design layout for full-room and full-office fit-outs, delivery and installation across Ontario by our own crew (no third-party logistics handoff), warranty filing handled on your behalf, and PO-friendly billing under your existing procurement workflow.

Coverage

OECM Agreement 2025-470 — coverage by category and brand.

All categories below ship under Agreement 2025-470 at OECM-negotiated terms. Counts reflect the storefront-callable manufacturer lines; ergoCentric, Keilhauer, and 25+ additional authorized lines are also Agreement-eligible and quoted on request.

Category Global Furniture Group OTG / Offices to Go Heartwood Manufacturing ObusForme Category total
Seating (task, executive, side, lounge)4544695
Desks & workstations9131133
Tables (conference, training, boardroom)104620
Storage & filing69924
Panels & dividers22
Accessories (CPU holders, monitor arms, etc.)33
Brand total7075266177

Need a brand or category not listed? Call 1-800-835-9565 — most Agreement 2025-470 lines aren't on the storefront yet.

How to purchase

Three steps from wish list to install.

Step 01

Send your wish list

Floor plan, square footage, a list of seat counts, or a photo of your existing room. Whatever you have. Email it, call 1-800-835-9565, or use the quote form.

Step 02

Line-item quote in 1 business day

Pricing at Agreement 2025-470 negotiated rates. SKU-level detail your procurement office can match against the OECM catalog. Lead times noted per line.

Step 03

You issue a PO; we deliver and install

Your purchasing policy still applies — signing limits, board approval, internal PO authorization — but you skip the tender. Our own crew handles delivery and install across Ontario. One invoice, OECM-compliant.

Eligible buyers: Ontario school boards, hospitals and CCACs, publicly-assisted colleges and universities, municipalities and their agencies, broader-public-sector organizations, and not-for-profits in social services and education. Not sure if your organization qualifies? Call 1-800-835-9565 — five-minute confirmation.

Why Brant Business Interiors

Four reasons OECM purchasers send us their POs.

01

Pre-tendered pricing

OECM-negotiated rates on the full Brant Business Interiors catalogue. No "sharpened pencil" games — the price you see is the price agreed at the master-agreement level.

02

No RFP needed

If you're OECM-eligible, your purchasing policy already lists us as compliant. Skip the 6-week tender; quote and PO move in days, not months.

03

Single Ontario partner

Family-owned since 1964, head office at 296 George St N, Peterborough. One Ontario account team owns your file from quote through warranty — no out-of-province handoffs.

04

Full brand range

30+ authorized manufacturer lines under Agreement 2025-470 — Global Furniture Group, OTG / Offices to Go, Heartwood Manufacturing, ObusForme, ergoCentric, Keilhauer, and the rest. You buy the right chair, not the closest one.

Recent OECM installs

Three Ontario sites we shipped last year, all under existing OECM agreements.

Healthcare reception corridor with a row of stacking guest chairs and lettered wayfinding signage
Education Halton DSB · admin offices 240 task chairs · OECM PO · 2024
Classroom with active-learning chairs and modular tables
Healthcare Brantford General · waiting 60 vinyl-grade lounge units · OECM PO · 2023
City of Hamilton council suites OECM install
Government City of Hamilton · council suites 32 private offices fit-out · OECM PO · 2024
2025-470 OECM Agreement number Supplier Partner · Office furniture category · Current contract cycle.
340+ OECM POs delivered Across 90+ Ontario school boards, hospitals, and municipalities across current and prior contract cycles.
1 day Quote turnaround Most OECM line-item quotes return within one business day of intake.

Brant Business Interiors is the operating brand of Brant Basics, our OECM-registered legal entity. Family-owned since 1964, headquartered at 296 George St N, Peterborough, ON K9J 3H2. Part of the Office Central group.

FAQ

Eight questions OECM purchasers ask before sending the PO.

Any OECM-eligible Ontario organization: school boards (K-12), publicly-assisted colleges and universities, hospitals and CCACs, municipalities and their agencies, broader-public-sector organizations, and not-for-profits in social services and education. OECM publishes the full eligible-buyer list on their site. Not sure if your organization qualifies? Call 1-800-835-9565 and we'll confirm in five minutes.

No. OECM has already run the procurement on your behalf — pricing, warranty terms, delivery windows, and product compliance are all pre-negotiated at the master-agreement level. Your organization's purchasing policy still applies (signing limits, board approvals, internal PO authorization), but the 6–8 weeks normally spent issuing an RFP, evaluating bids, and writing a contract is what disappears.

The full Brant Business Interiors furniture catalog — seating, desks and workstations, tables, storage and filing, panels and dividers, and accessories. See the coverage table on this page for storefront-callable brand × category counts. 25+ additional Agreement-eligible manufacturer lines (Lacasse, Safco, ergoCentric, Keilhauer, and others) are quoted on request.

One business day on most line-item quotes. Larger projects with a free design-layout component typically take 5 business days. You'll be talking to the same Ontario account team that owns your file through install and warranty — not an offshore quote desk.

Honestly, not always — an open-tender bid on a single very-high-volume SKU can occasionally beat the OECM rate. But once you factor in tender cost, evaluation time, and the risk of a non-compliant low bidder, OECM nets out cheaper on the vast majority of orders. For very large fit-outs we'll tell you directly if running a separate tender would save you money.

Our own crew handles delivery, assembly, levelling, and removal of old furniture — we don't subcontract logistics. After-hours and weekend installs are available for occupied spaces, which matters for schools and hospitals. W5-cleared installers for ministry and hospital sites.

Same as any Brant Business Interiors order — we file the manufacturer claim on your behalf and keep the piece in service. Multi-year warranties across Global, OTG, Heartwood, ergoCentric, and the rest of our authorized lines; specific terms vary by manufacturer. Loaner chairs available during repair. One service contact, Ontario-based.

Yes. We can split a single quote into the Agreement 2025-470-eligible portion (drawn against the master agreement) and any out-of-scope items handled under your normal procurement. You get one delivery, one install, one invoice — procurement tracking lists the two streams.

Quoting under OECM

Send us your wish list. We'll send back an OECM-line-item quote.

Floor plan, square footage, or a list of seat counts — any starting point works. One business day to a quote, one Ontario team end-to-end.

Request a Quote
1 business day response on every OECM quote — no minimums.
Or call 1-800-835-9565 · Mon–Fri 8–5 ET