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Fullbench vs. Sunburst: a sourced comparison for school districts
Sunburst Workforce Advisors, launched by Amergis in 2022, is a managed service provider for education, healthcare, and government. Its public positioning emphasizes vendor coordination, transparency, supplier equity, dashboards, and a dedicated program manager, with cooperative-purchasing reach through Amergis's Sourcewell contract. Fullbench works only the education slice of that world, with a different structure and different things in public.
Side by side
What's published, and what isn't
| Question | Fullbench | Sunburst (per its public materials) |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | K-12 education only. The workflows, credential gates, and roles are built for how districts actually staff. | Education, healthcare, and government: a cross-sector program backed by Amergis's national staffing infrastructure. |
| Cost & fee model | $0 to districts. The agency rate, when it is taken, and how it is itemized are stated in the agreement each agency signs. | No standard public fee schedule was located as of August 2026; client-specific economics typically live in participating-entity agreements. |
| Ownership & supply | Open multi-agency network. Every participating agency plays under the same recorded rules, with its fee stated in its own agreement. | Owned by Amergis Healthcare Staffing, one of the country's larger education and healthcare staffing companies. Its materials emphasize supplier equity; published mechanics for how equity is enforced were not located. |
| Who competes to fill your openings | Every approved agency, released the opening at the same recorded time. Coverage comes from the whole network's bench, your office holds every decision, and the program record shows each one. | Positions on transparency and objective supplier selection. Published release-timing or distribution rules were not located. |
| What you see on screen | One platform, demonstrable in a 15-minute walkthrough: requisitions, releases, credential gates, one invoice, agency scorecards. | Markets dashboards and a VMS "command center"; its Sourcewell materials describe using a VMS component when needed. The specific platform is not publicly identified. |
| Procurement path | No cooperative vehicle, and no program fee to procure: the district pays one invoice for hours its own schools approved. Your solicitor sets the procurement path for your state; we supply the agreement, the exhibits, and a board memo before you commit to anything. | A significant advantage: Amergis holds a competitively awarded Sourcewell cooperative contract many public entities can purchase through. |
Based on publicly available information as of August 2026, including sunburstworkforce.com and public Sourcewell contract documents for Amergis Healthcare Staffing. "Not located" is a statement about public materials, not about Sunburst's internal practices. Sunburst and Amergis are trademarks of their owners. Spot an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
The takeaway
Built for everything, or built for schools
- Sunburst brings corporate scale and a cooperative purchasing vehicle. Those are real advantages.
- Fullbench is a program run for you by a team that only staffs schools. Every approved agency working each opening, no start on an unapproved file, one invoice, at no cost to the district.
- Judge both on what your schools and your staff will experience. Ask to see it working before you sign.
Comparison last verified 25 August 2026 against Sunburst Workforce Advisors' own published materials and public cooperative-contract records.
Sources
Where this comes from
Checked 25 August 2026. We compare only against what the other program publishes about itself — never against what a salesperson told us.
- Sunburst Workforce Advisors — company site sunburstworkforce.com
- Sourcewell — cooperative contract search sourcewell-mn.gov
If anything here is out of date or wrong, tell us at hello@fullbench.co and we will correct it. Sunburst Workforce is a trademark of its owner; this page exists for factual comparison.
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Next step
Talk to the person who would run your program.
Fifteen minutes on your roles, your rate ceilings and the agencies you already use, with the program open. No slides, no obligation, and no cost to your district.
What we cover
- How your district manages its agencies today.
- Candidate review, document approval and billing, on a case like yours.
- Whether one department is the right place to start.
You leave with a clear next step. Nothing is signed on the call.