Purchasing and Payment Services

Mandate

The University strives to procure all goods and services by applying professional and ethical standards in the execution of contracts that protect both buyer and seller and demonstrate the prudent and economical use of resources provided to the University by its stakeholders.

  • Purchasing Services will assist in the sourcing, development of competitive bid documents, negotiation of terms and conditions, issuance of purchase orders and expediting, when requested.
  • Payment Services will ensure the timely and accurate payment and reporting of all non-salary disbursements to suppliers, employees and students for the University of Guelph.

Purchasing and Payments Updates

Provincial Procurement Restriction Policy

Apr 9 2025 - 13:08

Provincial Procurement Restriction Policy

April 9, 2025
The provincial government has issued a Procurement Restriction Policy, in effect as of April 4th.  The purpose of the policy is to restrict US businesses from accessing public sector procurements in...

TARIFFS UPDATE – Validation of correct tariffs

Mar 27 2025 - 14:07

Suppliers have started to provide quotes including tariff charges, in some cases inappropriately.  In order to validate whether a product or service is actually subject to a tariff surcharge, you should request the Harmonized Schedule (HS) code for the product.  This coding is part of an...