Procurement

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The USW procurement team brings together a mix of both private and public sector procurement experience, with collaboration and engagement central to how we do business for USW, with our colleagues, our suppliers and the local community.

The team are business partners to all faculties and departments across USW. The procurement partners deliver commercial and social value from our tenders, whilst our supplier relationship team develop and maintain ongoing relationships for mutual benefit once the contract starts. 

Meet the Team 

Tina Struebig (Procurement Manager) – [email protected]
Procurement business partner to Finance, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education (FLSE) and Future Students 

Laura Perrott (Procurement Partner) – [email protected]
Procurement business partner to Capital Projects, Energy and SERC

Gemma Selway (Procurement Partner) – [email protected]
Procurement Partner for IT Services, Library Services, Student Services and Transformation and Business Change.

Hannah Miles (Supplier Relationship Manager)- [email protected]

Catherine Lund (Procurement Director) – [email protected]

Kate Peck (Assistant Procurement Officer) - [email protected] 

For general queries, please contact [email protected]

Frequently Asked Questions

We would love to hear from you. You can either contact [email protected], or contact the relevant Procurement Partner for the goods/ services you provide as a business: 

Finance, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education (FLSE) and Future Students

Capital Projects, and Energy

IT Services, Library Services, Student Services and Transformation and Business Change.

We expect our suppliers to agree to abide by our Supplier Code of Conduct on a continual basis.

We also expect our suppliers to sign up to our General Purchase Terms and conditions, or depending on the purchase, to sign up to an agreed set of agreed terms with USW, which are agreed before any goods/ services are provided.

Whilst not mandatory, suppliers are encouraged to register on NetPositives Futures (a supplier engagement tool) and complete their company information and action plan. Reminders will be sent from the USW Supplier Relationship team, and will be discussed within your review meetings.

These can either be found on eTenderWales and Sell2Wales (www.sell2wales.gov.wales) or at one of our supplier pipeline events.

To register for an event, please contact [email protected].

Our pipeline events are scheduled throughout the year. To register, please contact [email protected].

For existing suppliers, pipeline events are also held at our annual supplier town hall event each November. Details of these will be sent with the event invitation and joining instructions.

Please contact [email protected] with details of your company, industry and location, as well as the specifics of what you can offer as student placements.

We will share this with the USW Careers team and they will be in touch.

For all valid invoices (matching the PO we’ve sent), our payment terms are 30 days.

Invoice queries should be sent to [email protected].

USW’s new supplier set up team will send you some forms to complete, so you can be set up on our finance system. We look forward to working with you…

Terms and Conditions

We also expect our suppliers to sign up to our General Purchase Terms and Conditions; these are generally non- negotiable, or depending on the purchase, to sign up to an agreed set of agreed terms with USW, which are agreed before any goods/ services are provided.

Our General Purchase Terms and Conditions can be seen here.

Freedom of Interest Requests

As a University, we are subject to the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and will often receive requests for information on our contracts and associated spend.

We expect our suppliers to help and co-operate with us to enable USW to comply with these requests, as needed.