Procurement

Registration is now open for the Penn Local Business Exchange! The event on Wednesday, October 8, will be held on Penn’s campus at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2025 Local Economic Impact Award. This award recognizes the outstanding contributions of University individuals or teams who are driving intentional impact in the area of local procurement at Penn.

What’s Changing: Starting July 1, 2025, the deadline to submit expense reports in Concur will be reduced from 182 days to 60 days to comply with IRS guidelines. For travel reports, the 60-day clock will start from the trip’s end date. For non-travel reports, the clock will start from the transaction date.   Tax Implications: Reports submitted…

Concur updates that impact both Expense Submitters and Approvers will go live May 12, 2025. Read on for further details and links to training materials.

Accounts Payable will begin using invoice date (rather than invoice receipt date) to determine supplier payment timing starting May 5, 2025.

This is a courtesy reminder to ensure that all necessary orders for Blue Exam Booklets are placed through Graphic Arts in a timely manner.

Call for Nominations are now open for Penn’s Green Purchasing Awards

As part of the Finance Forward program, the Procurement Transformation initiative aims to streamline processes and make it easier to get work done the first time. To that end, below are some key changes that will be implemented on April 14, 2025: Requestors are encouraged to submit any in-process New Supplier Request forms before April…

As part of the Finance Forward’s program and the Procurement Transformation initiative, Procurement Services is announcing two upcoming Procurement policy changes, effective July 1, 2025

After an extensive RFP process led by Penn Procurement Services for providers of Website Design, Upgrade and Maintenance Services, seven (7) suppliers have been awarded 3-year Preferred Contracts effective June 20, 2023. The RFP process included input from seventeen (17) individuals from the marketing, communications and technical areas of Business Services, Communications, FRES, ISC, Law,…