Service
Procurement Services
Mission
Overseeing Smart Procurement Strategies
Penn Procurement Services provides efficient and effective buying methods, purchasing policies and procedures, and customer support for Penn faculty and staff. The department also manages the University's economic inclusion program and Green Purchasing initiatives, and establishes strategic supplier relationships to provide lowest "total cost" products and services to the Penn community.
Mark Mills
Chief Procurement Officer
Address
3401 Walnut Street Suite 440A Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
Phone
215-898-7216
Economic Inclusion
In total, more than 10% of Penn's purchasing dollars are directed to local community businesses, while local and diversity-owned suppliers also enjoy greater than a 10% share of Penn’s total spend. Approximately 20% of Penn Marketplace participating suppliers are diversity-owned.
Sustainability
Ben’s Attic is a web-based surplus property exchange site that allows Penn faculty and staff to exchange and purchase surplus University-owned property.
Procurement Services promotes the purchase of products with a reduced or minimal (ideally zero) environmental impact.
Cost Containment & Revenue Development
The efforts of Penn Procurement Services to identify new institution-wide and School and Center specific contracting and cost savings opportunities has resulted in an average of $35M in annual cost containment for the University.
Innovation
Procurement Services joined with the Divisions of Finance and Information and Computing Services to implement a comprehensive solution that raised one of the University's essential administrative process, the Procure-to-Pay process, to a higher level of organizational efficiency and effectiveness. The Penn Marketplace effort was recognized with a 2019 Model of Excellence Award.
