Kagus is built by Benmar Group
A 25+ year consulting firm serving higher education and public sector institutions. The same procurement expertise institutions trust is now available in a simple 30-second vendor check.
25 years of institutional vetting,
automated in 30 seconds.
How Benmar Group's cooperative purchasing expertise became Kagus Vendor Intelligence — a timestamped, audit-ready PDF for every vendor your institution approves.
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Why you can trust Kagus
- Competitively selected through a national RFP
- Meets strict financial, security & compliance standards
- Active systemwide contract
- Nationwide cooperative contract
- Available to public institutions in all 50 states
- No additional competitive bidding required
- Education-focused non-profit cooperative
- Independently approved vendor
- Used by universities across the country
25 years inside higher education.
Not a startup. Not a newcomer.
Benmar Group was founded in 1998 and has served universities, health systems, and government institutions across the United States for over 25 years. Named after founder Sabu Varghese's children, the company is a nationally certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and a Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) certified by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Benmar's institutional clients include the University of California system and institutions served through the E&I and Omnia cooperative purchasing networks.
25 years of pattern recognition. Encoded into Kagus.
Kagus checks multiple trusted sources to identify early signs of vendor risk — the signals that appear months before a vendor failure becomes visible in press coverage or financial filings.
This is an example of the report you download and save.
This is what goes in your vendor file.
A professional, timestamped, audit-ready document with a unique Report ID and a confidence band showing exactly how many of the seven signals returned data. Previously, this took a senior procurement analyst half a day to compile manually.
📄 Download the Fisher Scientific Sample ReportI built the tool I wished existed every time a vendor failed one of our clients.
"In 25 years of working with higher education procurement teams, I saw many situations where vendor risks could have been identified earlier. Kagus makes that check simple — so you can move forward with confidence."
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