Buyers come to Playground Authority before they have picked a vendor, while they are still working out how to pay for the project, what it will cost and how to run the purchase. When one of them asks to be matched, we introduce the project to a vetted supplier who serves that territory and that kind of buyer. You get a project that is funded or on its way to funding, scoped, and expecting your call. We get a referral fee. The buyer gets independent guidance and never pays us anything.
Named buyer, organization, buyer type, budget band, timeline and location. Not a shared list, not a scraped directory.
A region and the segments you serve, whether that is schools, parks, churches, childcare or HOAs. National reach, local fit.
Per introduced project or a flat territory arrangement. Never a share of the sale, and never a fee for being listed.
Every buyer who asks to be matched has answered the same questions: what kind of organization they are, where the playground will be, the age groups it serves, the budget band they are working in, where the money is coming from, and how soon they intend to buy. Most of them have already used the cost estimator, so the budget band is grounded in installed cost rather than a guess, and many have read the how to buy guide, which means they arrive with a scope in mind and an expectation that quotes will itemize equipment, freight, installation, surfacing and site work. You receive the project with that information attached, and the buyer is told to expect your call.
That preparation changes the conversation. A buyer who understands that surfacing is a real line item does not treat your surfacing quote as padding. A school that knows the state procurement threshold knows whether it can accept your quote directly or has to bid, and a church that has read our guidance on cooperative contracts knows to ask whether you hold one. The projects we send are smaller in number than a purchased list and further along than a cold inquiry.
The site serves the five kinds of organizations that buy most commercial playgrounds in the United States, and each has its own hub on the buyer side: public and private schools, cities, counties and park districts, churches and faith based organizations, licensed childcare centers, and homeowners associations and developers. Buyers also arrive through the fifty state pages, which describe the grant programs and rules in their state, and through the grant navigator, which is where a buyer who has just learned what a project costs goes to find out how to pay for it. A supplier can ask for one segment or several, and one state or a region.
The buyer side of this site tells buyers what to insist on, so the supplier side has to meet the same bar. A supplier in the network shows us that:
We ask every matched buyer to tell us how the project went. A supplier whose quotes hide site work, whose installations fail an audit, or whose buyers report being pushed past their budget is removed from the network. That is the arrangement that keeps buyers trusting the introduction, which is the only thing that makes the introduction worth paying for.
Two arrangements. A supplier can pay per introduced project, which suits a dealer who wants to see the flow before committing to a region. Or a supplier can take a flat territory arrangement for a region and a set of segments, which suits a dealer or manufacturer who wants to be the referred partner there. In neither case is the fee a share of the sale, and in neither case does the fee touch the buyer side of the site. We do not publish supplier reviews, rankings or endorsements, in or out of the network, and the cost ranges and buying guidance are the same whether or not a partner serves the buyer's territory. A supplier cannot buy a recommendation here, and buyers know that, which is why they are willing to be introduced.
We do not sell your products, carry your catalog, or act as your dealer. We do not send the same project to a second network. We do not run advertising, sponsored content or paid placement anywhere on the site, and we do not accept equipment, travel or gifts. We do not share a buyer's contact information with anyone the buyer was not told about. The about page describes the independence commitments from the buyer's side, in the same words we use here.
Tell us the territory you serve, the segments you want, the manufacturers you represent, and whether you hold any cooperative purchasing contracts. We will reply with what current demand looks like in that territory and the arrangement that fits it, and there is no commitment until you have seen that. Use the form below, choose Other on the first step, and tell us you are a supplier.
Manufacturers, their territory dealers, independent dealers, surfacing contractors and installers whose equipment is built to ASTM F1487 with IPEMA certification, whose surfacing is tested to ASTM F1292, who carry liability insurance appropriate to public work, and who quote to a written scope with itemized pricing.
A referred project goes to the supplier or suppliers matched to that territory and segment, not to a purchased list. Buyers are told they will hear from vetted suppliers and how many, and we do not resell the same project to a second network.
Per introduced project, or as a flat territory arrangement for a supplier who wants a region and a segment. The fee is never a share of the sale, and it never buys a recommendation on the buyer side of the site.
No. The site is brand neutral. We do not publish product reviews, rankings or endorsements of any supplier, in or out of the network, and the buyer guidance is identical whether or not a partner serves the buyer's territory.
Tell us your territory and the segments you serve. We will show you what buyers there are asking for. No commitment.
