INFORMATION FOR SUPPLIERS

Obligations, Good Relationships, and Marketing

Summary: Find out how to develop a positive working relationship with UCSD.

Your obligations as a supplier

Receiving a UCSD purchase order carries with it the obligation to supply the ordered goods or services at the agreed-upon price, at the promised time, and without the need for buyer's intervention, renegotiation, or continued expediting. Full performance of contractual obligations will help your company earn a favorable evaluation and opportunities for further participation in our purchasing program.

In addition, we expect:

• Dependable products and services
• Delivery as promised
• Competitive prices
• No substitutions
• Good communications
• Timely resolution of warranty claims
• Compliance with purchasing, shipping and invoicing procedures

Fostering good relationships

You can ensure a good working relationship with UCSD by:

• Refraining from offering gifts, gratuities or anything appear to influence purchasing decisions
• Telling us if we can improve our specifications to provide a better performance, a longer-life product, and/or lower cost
• Keeping us supplied with your latest catalogs and current prices
• Informing us of your backorder situations, plant closures, impending shortages, or strikes
• Following through on orders to ensure delivery to us as promised
• Contacting the Procurement & Contracts office for appointments
• Letting us know if there are any changes in your company-new address, new fax number, new phone number, new owner, etc.
• Informing us of new technological advances

Marketing

Good marketing strategies are largely dependent upon reaching the right people in an organization. Target marketing to the appropriate departments is key to your success in finding business opportunities at UCSD.

Please feel free to contact the appropriate procurement specialist for the area of sales you wish to discuss.

• See Procurement & Contract's Listing of Procurement & Contract Specialists by Location, which includes the names, phone numbers, and locations of appropriate members of the Procurement & Contracts  Division professionals.
• See the Listing of Procurement & Contract Specialists by Commodity page for a list of commodities handled by each specialist.

For marketing to campus Departmental buyers, who are authorized to purchase up to $2,500 per day, per supplier without involving Procurement & Contracts:

• Contact the UCSD Bookstore at (858) 534-7323, for a campus directory.
• Connect to our online directory service that has information about individual departments.