A Look at Procurement in Higher Education
The University of California San Diego

Speakers:
Linda Collins, Purchasing Manager UCSD
Bob Forsythe, Equipment Manager and Manager of Small Business Office UCSD
Denny Moreen, Supervising Buyer Central Purchasing Office UCSD

From books to bridges, earthworms to earthquake simulators, programmers to pilots, microscopes to magnetic resonance spectrometers and soup to supercomputers, the University of California San Diego (UCSD) purchases a variety of commodities. Buying for an institution of higher education presents unique challenges unfamiliar to buyers in other industries. At this session, the purchasing leaders from UCSD offer insight about this internationally acclaimed research institution and the challenges they face managing the procurement of $300 million in goods and services annually.