The University of Chicago

Financial Services

  

Central Purchasing and Payment Services

Our Mission: To enhance the services provided by the Office of Financial Services, CPPS is the newly integrated operation to combine the resources of procurement and the resources of accounts payable. This new unit will integrate communications in the areas of buying and paying for goods and services. The benefits from this uniting will enable planning and implementation of a seamless program inclusive of contracts, purchase orders, invoice payments and reimbursements, credit card operations, travel services and other specialized campus programs. This unit will become not only a single source resource for the campus, but also the strategic manager of a new electronic invoicing systems process providing the infrastructure for the increasing independence in transactions, supported by an expanded data and document retrieval and reporting environment.