Procurement Services maintains relationships with preferred vendors who have negotiated contracts with the university and generally provide lower costs, higher quality or other benefits over competitors.

Using preferred vendors helps generate greater purchasing power for the university which helps with future negotiations. Additionally, preferred vendors are familiar with university processes and are generally able to provide easy, seamless purchases.

Preferred vendors include:

Car Rentals
Avis
Enterprise
Hertz

Food & Beverage
DePaul Catering/Chartwells

Cell Phones & Pagers
AT&T Mobility
Skytel

Furniture
Interiors for Business
KI
OEC Business Interiors

General Books and Textbooks
Barnes & Noble

Hotels
Affinia Hotels
Allerton Hotel
Belden-Stratford Hotel
Best Western (River North)
Hotel Cass
Club Quarters
Fairfield Inn & Suites
Four Seasons Hotel
Hotel Felix
Hotel Indigo
Silversmith Hotel & Suites
The Ritz-Carlton Chicago
Additional Hotels

Moving Services
Corrigan Moving Systems

Office & Maintenance Supplies
ACE Coffee & Water
Grainger
Staples Business Advantage

Promotional Items
Staples Promo

Records Storage & Shredding
R4 Services

Science Equipment
Fisher Scientific

Shipping
FedEx
UPS

Technology (Hardware)
Apple
CDW-G
Dell

Technology (Software)
CDW-G

Temporary Staffing
Student Temporary Services

Travel Services
Southwest SWABIZ
Travel Leaders

Additional preferred vendors
(non-departmental use)

In support of creating a diverse and representative vendor base which reflects DePaul’s commitment to equal opportunity, Procurement Services maintains a listing of minority and women owned businesses that have been utilized in the past as well as instructions on how to search the vendor database for such vendors.

• List of minority and women owned vendors
• Instructions on how to search eProcurement

Made by Entrepreneurs is DePaul University’s Coleman Entrepreneurship Center’s membership directory and features small businesses and ventures around Chicago, including many DePaul alumni and student-owned ventures. We encourage you to consider these ventures for your purchasing needs.

To view the directory, visit the Made by Entrepreneurs page at: http://cec.depaul.edu/made-by/

Procurement Services runs the Demon Discounts program, designed for personal purchases. However in some cases vendors in this program may be able to meet the university's business needs as well.

Participating vendors and their discounts are available at http://discounts.depaul.edu/.

For items that are not sold by a preferred vendor, departments may select their own vendor. When doing so, departments should evaluate the quality, cost, delivery methods and services provided.

All new vendors must be authorized by Procurement Services or Accounts Payable prior to use. New vendors are required to fill out paperwork that is required by the IRS and other tax entities to determine their payment eligibility (eg vendor, consultant, employee, etc.).

Please review the Vendor Selection policy for more information on new vendors.

Information for prospective vendors can be found here. Information for vendors wishing to do business via the Demon Discounts and Demon Express programs can be found at the discounts website.