• What We Do
• Our Staff
• Locations & Contact Us
• Our Mission Statement
• Purchasing Code of Ethics
  
  
  
• What We Do

  The department is responsible for the purchasing of goods and services for the entire District, which includes the following:

• SDCCD’s three accredited colleges:
  San Diego City College
  San Diego Mesa College
  San Diego Miramar College
• Continuing Education
• District Service Center
• Administrative Offices
• Various other SDCCD sites: for example, our Military Programs located throughout the United States (e.g., San Diego, Great Lakes, Pensacola, FL).

The Purchasing Department issued over 13,000 purchase orders and contracts in the 2007-2008 fiscal year, amounting to over $61 million in goods and services, serving the needs of over 5,000 employees and 100,000 students.

• Our Staff

Buyers’ Areas of Responsibilities

Each Buyer specializes in the procurement of particular commodies and services over a period of time. The areas of responsibilities are rotated annually for cross-training and effectiveness. See current chart. The District purchases a variety of products and services, which we categorize in our system by commodity codes.

• Locations & Contact Us

Purchasing
has moved back to the newly retrofitted District Office building!

Our mailing address is:
San Diego Community College District Administrative Offices
3375 Camino del Rio South, Suite 270
San Diego, CA 92108
Contact us by:
Phone: 619-388-6562
Fax: 619-388-6893
Email - purchase@sdccd.edu
Map/Directions - Click here for or other Written Instructions
Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday (excluding holidays)

Central Receiving, Inventory, Distribution
is located at the new Computing & Distribution Center building
9315 Hillery Drive
San Diego, CA 92126
Contact us by:
Phone: 619-388-1180
Fax: 619-388-1190
Email - purchase@sdccd.edu
Map/Directions - Click here for
Hours: 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday (excluding holidays)

 

• Our Mission Statement

Purchasing and Contract Services will:

• Seek to provide to our faculty, staff, and students appropriate products and services at competitive prices, in a timely fashion, with efficiency and good service, in a legal and professional manner.
• Create and encourage effective working relationships with all individuals, departments, sites, and the business community.
• Facilitate service, and support policies, procedures and systems which promote ease and efficiency.

   

• Purchasing Code of Ethics

  As a member of the National Association of Educational Buyers (NAEB), Purchasing and Contract Services subscribes to the following NAEB code of ethics:

  • Give first consideration to the objectives and policies of the institution.
  • Strive to obtain the maximum value for each dollar of expenditure.
  • Decline personal gifts or gratuities.
  • Grant all competitive suppliers equal consideration insofar as state or federal statute and institutional policy permit.
  • Conduct business with potential and current suppliers in an atmosphere of good faith, devoid of intentional misrepresentation.
  • Demand honesty in sales representation whether offered through the medium of a verbal or written statement, an advertisement, or a sample of the product.
  • Receive consent of originator of proprietary ideas and designs before using them for competitive purchasing purposes.
  • Make every reasonable effort to negotiate an equitable and mutually agreeable settlement of any controversy with a supplier; and/or be willing to submit any major controversies to arbitration or other third party.
  • Accord a prompt and courteous reception insofar as conditions permit to all that call on legitimate business missions.