Effective November 23, 2020, Supply Chain Management (SCM) will no longer ask for Source Justification and Price Reasonableness on non-federally funded orders under $100,000. This change reduces the workload on the campus and brings our procurement rules into closer alignment with other University of California (UC) campuses and UCSF Health.
UCSF’s current procurement process for non-federally funded orders requires two justifications for orders greater than $25,000; 1) Source Justification 2) Price Reasonableness. These justifications are provided to procurement using the BearBuy forms or on through a stand-alone PDF. We will be updating these forms and PDFs to reflect the new thresholds.
Once implemented, all other existing UC requirements will continue to apply, including fairwage/fairwork, data privacy and security, independent contracting rules and the Regents policy generally prohibiting contracting out.
Over the next month, we will be revising our materials and implementing these changes. If you have any questions or comments, please submit a ticket to the SCM Response Team: