Tennessee State General Information

Tennessee State Contract General Information

The State of Tennessee Purchasing Division within the Department of General Services maintains contracts on a wide variety of goods and services. The University is eligible to purchase under most of the contracts. Departments are encouraged to review these contracts when seeking a source of supply for products or services for which the University does not maintain a contract. The University is required to purchase under these contracts unless the University is able to obtain better pricing or terms through its purchasing system.

Purchases up to $5,000 may be made from state contract vendors using a department procurement card if the vendor will accept this method of payment and honor the state contract price. If the vendor does not accept procurements cards for state contract purchases, purchases may be made up to $5,000 directly from the vendor. In this case, the departmental cost center (account) number should be given in lieu of a purchase order number and the invoice should be directly into IRIS using the FB60 transaction. If a purchase requirement will exceed $5,000, a requisition must be entered into IRIS and Purchasing Services will issue a purchase order to the vendor. The statewide contract (SWC) number should be put in the Buyer’s Instructions text field of the first line item of the requisition.

Departments that anticipate frequent purchases above $5,000 from a state contract vendor should contact Purchasing Services to request a framework (blanket) purchase order.

List of active statewide contracts