Procurement Services
Mark Fehlberg
Assistant VP, Procurement Services
Email: mafehl@uchicago.edu
Phone: 773-702-3321
Procurement Services provides integrated solutions to enhance the University's procure-to-pay experience. This includes establishing contracts; creating purchase orders; and administering the credit card program, travel services, and other specialized campus programs.
For supplier inquiries and payments, please contact the University's Knowledge and Support Center at 773.7025800 or by using the Ask A Purchasing/Payment Question form found in the Service Now portal.
In the Spotlight
Procurement: View the most often asked questions and answers related to general procurement. View the most often asked question and answers related to procurement of products for resumption of campus operations. Travel: View the UChicago Covid-19 travel advisories and updates and questions and answers related to travel and meetings.
Uniform Guidance
The University’s implementation of the Uniform Guidance Procurement Standards became effective July 1, 2018 in conjunction with updated federal government regulations.
The federal government has recently issued clarifying guidance regarding formal competition thresholds. Based on these clarifications, the University is able to adopt a new $250,000 threshold for the requirement of Formal Competition (an increase from the current $150,000). The new limits governing our procurement processes (and associated documentation requirements) are highlighted in the table below.
The following changes have been made to our procurement thresholds:
| Threshold | Procurement Method | Documentation Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| $0 - $10k | Micro-Purchase | Documentation of price |
| $10k-$250k | Informal Procurement | Documentation of competition, price reasonability or sole source justification |
| >$250k | Formal Procurement | Competitive proposals (or sole source justification) – proactively engage Procurement Services |
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