Our Enterprise Procurement Department is solely responsible for all sourcing and contracting to support our operational needs and strategic objectives. Our Enterprise Procurement Manager and their delegated staff are solely authorized to act as our agents in securing contracts and/or purchase orders to procure capital equipment, goods, and services.
Upon selection, your company information will be placed into our database. Our Category Specialists will contact you when the need arises to purchase your product(s) and/or service(s). We don’t encourage unsolicited calls to any of our offices.
All our purchasing is centralized. No employee outside of the Enterprise Procurement Department can act as one of our authorized agents. All contracts, purchase orders for goods and services, and signatures must come from the Enterprise Procurement Unit, including signatures required for your contracts.
Depending upon the type of goods or services required, our selection process may consist of any of these processes:
Contracts are awarded for best value based on a combined analysis of price, compatibility to our requirements, quality, timely delivery, and past performance. Awards are final, non-negotiable, and confidential. It’s our policy that we not reveal to a participant why they won or lost a proposal or bid.
After we’ve made a vendor selection, we’ll extend a purchase order and/or contract.
Purchase order or contract numbers are required for all purchases. Invoices without purchase order numbers will be returned to the vendor.
When we purchase goods and services:
We expect our suppliers to:
We are committed to maintain high ethical standards for the fair and equitable treatment of our suppliers, providing qualified suppliers with equal opportunities to grow their business through the competitive bid process.
Our program is based on the principles of fair and equitable business practices and social responsibility to the community we serve. We promote opportunities to form mutually profitable relationships with diverse suppliers through teamwork and commitment that has made our program a success.
We know when we contract with a diverse supplier, we are helping to create new jobs and increase the spending within our communities. We look to our diverse suppliers to bring innovative solutions and provide us with a strategic advantage. They contribute to our resilient supply chain, allowing us to be flexible and able to pivot to support our important work on behalf of California’s employers and workers.
Learn more about our commitment to supplier diversity.
To register as a new supplier, please register.
You may mail your request to us at:
State Compensation Insurance Fund
Enterprise Procurement Unit
Attn: Vendor Services
P.O. Box 8192
Pleasanton, CA 94588
We thank you for your interest and hope to do business with you in the future.
