Award of New Co-Prime Contracts for Scientific Supplies and Equipment
Effective August 1, Procurement Services has awarded two co-prime scientific contracts for Fisher Scientific and Avantor/VWR. Both contracts are for the suppliers’ full lines of scientific supplies and equipment. Each contract was competitively solicited with awards being recommended by a Request for Proposals (RFP) evaluation committee.
Each supplier will continue to have an e-catalog available within the SRM/Ariba Network for convenient shopping and ordering of scientific products. The Fisher Scientific e-catalog will contain expanded offerings for their full line of products along with online quote functionality allowing shoppers to easily pull a pre-loaded quote to a shopping cart similar to other Ariba e-catalogs. Manual creation and submission of Fisher Scientific free text shopping carts are no longer required; all scientific products offered by Fisher Scientific will be available on their e-catalog via their product listing or quote functionality. A step-by-step help guide to use the Fisher Scientific quote functionality on their e-catalog will soon be available on the Learning and Training Resources page of the Procurement Services website and listed as document B-13.
Avantor/VWR will provide its full line of scientific product offerings as part of its contract award. Avantor/VWR will continue to provide quote functionality as well on its Ariba Network e-catalog as in the past.
As a reminder, no purchases of products from Fisher Scientific and Avantor/VWR are permitted via a University procurement card; all purchases must be conducted via the SRM/Ariba Network e-catalog platform.
A new contract has been awarded for Life Technologies. Please note their contract does not include white-glove delivery services for equipment and Life Technology may charge restocking fees for returned items. Shoppers may be able to order the same products from the Fisher Scientific and/or Avantor/VWR e-catalogs and take advantage of additional contract offerings from those providers for white glove delivery services at no additional charge as well as no restocking fees being applicable. Life Technologies will continue to provide their e-catalog on the SRM/Ariba Network for product ordering.
Sales representatives for both suppliers are listed below:
Fisher Scientific:
Joyce C. Ikedlife, Primary Account Sales Representative
Email: joyce.ikedife@thermofisher.com
Phone: (878) 250-1617
Jim Hall, Regional Sales Manager
Email: james.hall@thermofisher.com
Phone: (800) 766-7000
Avantor/VWR:
Ella Hamm, Primary Account Sales Representative
Email: Ella.hamm@avantorsciences.com
Phone: (859) 421-3432
Brice Kinny, Primary Account Sales Representative
Email: Brice.kinney@avantorsciences.com
Dedicated UK Customer Service Team:
Email: UK_Support@vwr.com
Phone: (859) 421-3432
For more information or if you have questions related to the recent scientific contract awards to Fisher Scientific and/or Avantor/VWR, please contact Bob Busch at Robert.busch@uky.edu. Technical questions related to shopping within the e-catalogs themselves can be directed to srmhelp@uky.edu.