Professional Services
Find contracted supplier agreements for use by all University of California locations systemwide and local UC San Diego agreements using these pages. These contracts are organized by commodity categories for your convenience.
Under UC San Diego's Integrated Procure-to-Pay Solutions organization, the Professional Services Team supports the competitive bid process, negotiating contracts, implementing new agreements, and supporting the department to comply with UC policies and Federal and State regulations related to the procurement of professional services.
While services include labor performed for another and useful labor that may or may not produce a tangible commodity Professional Services are highly specialized functions, typically of a technical nature, performed by a supplier that, concerning the services to be rendered, most commonly:
- has a professional license;
- is licensed by a regulatory body; and/or
- is able to obtain professional errors and omissions insurance.
Professional services are of a nature that the University would consider the supplier’s experience, qualifications and skills to be more important than comparative cost when selecting a supplier. Examples of professional services include medicine and related medical services, and legal, accounting, architectural, and engineering services.
UC San Diego members are strongly encouraged to seek competition and use Small Businesses First.