Procurement

What Suppliers Can Expect From UC Riverside

Procurement Services is committed to providing suppliers with fair and equal opportunities to compete for business at UC Riverside. Our commodity buyers handle transactional procurement and strategic sourcing initiatives, incorporating UC and local agreements, small businesses, and sustainability within their purchasing responsibilities. Strategic sourcing opportunities are usually based on historical spend. UCR buyers solicit and conduct requests for bids/proposals, formulate contracts, and negotiate large-dollar purchases on behalf of our clients. For details, see the list of campus professional buyers and their commodities.

Suppliers are encouraged to market their goods and services directly to individual departments across the campus. As our campus is decentralized, each department is responsible for initiating its own purchases. Please use the campus website to identify departments that may be interested in your offerings. If a department wishes to do business with you, please have them send you an invitation to register in the UCR Supplier/Payee Portal in Oracle Financials. 

* Please note that being added to the supplier portal does not indicate the University's intent to purchase goods or services from your firm, nor does it guarantee any specific volume if a purchase is made. It simply means that a request to add your business to our supplier database has been made, and UC Riverside has obtained the necessary information to issue a purchase order or payment if an order is placed.

What We Expect From Our Suppliers