UC Bay Area Supply Chain is an organization of nearly 100 professionals from two of the largest UC campuses (Berkeley and San Francisco), who are dedicated to saving our campus and Medical Center communities time and money in obtaining the goods and services they need so they can spend their time and money supporting their primary missions: teaching, research, health care, and public service. We are innovative, collaborative and aggressive, and by the 2017 fiscal year we will be delivering over $50 Million in supply chain benefits annually to our campuses and the University as a whole. Read more
I would expect that many within and outside the UC mistakenly view the core strategy of the P200 Program, "One UC Procurement," as merely a matter of leveraging..."The Power of Ten," but the simple fact is, one cannot leverage what one cannot collect, making greatly enhanced collaboration and the commitment of systemwide spend essential to achieving this strategy. Read more
Bill Cooper
Associate Vice President & Chief Procurement Officer
Reminder: Updated Legal Docs Available
UC's template documents have been updated to make sure the terminology is consistent and current. The Office of General Counsel and Procurement encourage everyone to "go cold turkey" and stop using forms previously saved on individual computers.Read more
Kathleen Quenneville
Principal Counsel
Migration to the enhanced Sourcing Technology Platform heats up!
The eCommerce Center of Excellence is one third of the way through moving UC Procurement Services to an enhanced sourcing technology platform, which gives us additional features requested to design and execute bid events more quickly and efficiently. Read more
Jenn Glassman
eCOE Lead
Spend Analytics 2 Live on All Campuses
All ten campuses are now live on Spend Analytics Phase 2. Campuses can now leverage information regarding purchases and spend that occurs at their own campus, at other campuses and systemwide, enabling more complete analyses of products, suppliers and pricing.Read more
Todd Wirsching
Analytics Manager
Procurement win featured in Daily Bruin
Recently, UCLA's Daily Bruin featured an article about the replacement of toilet paper and paper towel dispensers in bathrooms across campus as part of a UC-wide project to reduce paper towel waste. In addition to reducing waste, the article pointed out the cost savings for each campus, based on a new systemwide agreement for janitorial products resulting from a reverse auction run by the MRO & Facilities COE. Read more
David Houghton
Commodity Manager - Facilities & Maintenance
Facilities & Maintenance COE announces new agreements & extensions
The Facilities and Maintenance Center of Excellence has recently completed 7 new contracts/extensions in three categories for immediate campus use.Read more
Facilities & Maintenance COE Supplier Business Reviews Announced
Save the Date - The Facilities & Maintenance Center of Excellence is holding systemwide Supplier Business Reviews via teleconference on Wednesday, March 25th.Read more
