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Preferred suppliers

Purchasing Services encourages the use of pre-approved preferred suppliers for the acquisition of products and/or services as permitted by Policy.

Air travel

Bus Transportation

 A Master Service Agreement (MSA) is in place with the following Bus Transportation companies. 

You can view the contract terms & conditions per vendor below. If you have any questions please reach out to the Purchasing Officer assigned to your department or e-mail purchase@uvic.ca 

Process steps:

  • Reach out to the vendor of your choice to obtain quote for your trip
  • create WebReq & attach quote, submit for signing authority approval, submit to Purchasing 
  • Purchasing will issue a Purchase Order (PO) to confirm the trip with the vendor 
  • note the PO# on the invoice before submitting to payments@uvic.ca for payment   

 

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Living Fire Society (dba Community Action Bus) 

Contract terms & conditions. 

 

Contract terms & conditions. 

 Contract terms & conditions. 

Catering / Conference

 Degrees Catering: 

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A Catering and Conference Centre is located on campus at the Sngequ House and is operated by Degrees Catering, part of University Food Services.

Services are available 7 days a week, accommodating events from as early as 7 am, with room capacities ranging from 20 to 600 people.

For your convenience all billing is done directly to your department FAST Account.

Please visit our website or contact the Degrees Catering team at degreescatering@uvic.ca , internal extension 8603 (250-721-8603) to view our menus, obtain a quote, or arrange a tour of the facilities.

Communications and technology

Microserve

Contact for personal purchases

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Apple

 

Dell

For discounts and special offers on PCs, tablets, and electronics: 

Current offer

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Rogers

Learn about discounts

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Consumables

Hot House Pizza

Staff & student discount of 10% off the regular price for pick-up and delivery orders. 

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Old Victoria Water Company

Program rates

Degrees Catering & Conference

On-campus catering & conference services

 

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Hotels and meeting rooms

The or room rates apply to UVic hotel and accommodation reservations. 

Non-employee hotel reservations can be booked and paid with a UVic ccard. Call the hotel to book the reservation. 

Most hotels will request a credit card authorization and provide a form. Please fax the form, e-mail is not a secure way to send credit card details. Some hotels will send a link to a secure portal to submit the credit card details. 

If no UVic ccard is available, use hotel reservation & authorization form for non-faculty, non-staff, guests, students and teams. 

Meeting rooms under $5,000 can be booked and paid with a UVic ccard. If no department ccard is available, use the meeting room authorization form (instructions). For all other conferences please submit a WebRequisition.  

Accent Inns

 

Arbutus Inn

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Chateau Victoria

 

Coast Harbourside

 

Days Inn

 

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Delta Victoria

DoubleTree by Hilton

Embassy Inn

Fairmont Empress

Hotel Grand Pacific

 

Hotel Zed

 

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Inn at Laurel Point

Magnolia Hotel & Spa

Request corporate rate code "UV2"

Motel 6 

To make a reservation book online or call 1-855-445-3388 (general reservation) or 1-855-366-2257 (for group reservation). 

Use Uvic discount booking code: CPHUDNFH 

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Oak Bay Beach Hotel 

To make a reservation call 250-598-4556 or send e-mail to stay@oakbaybeachhotel.com or direct book 

Request RATE CODE: UVICGEN

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Royal Scot Suite Hotel

Swans Hotel and Brewpub

Office supplies, courier and shredding services

Staples Business Advantage

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FedEx

Email to set up account: 

Iron Mountain


We are currently in the process of transitioning from Shred-it to Iron Mountain as preferred supplier for shredding services.

Iron Mountain pricing sheet (please keep confidential) 

Step 1: complete the Shredding account request form and send to purchase@uvic.ca 

Step 2: cancel your Shred-it account by sending e-mail to: SCS-ProvinceofBC@stericycle.com

Questions? Review the Iron Mountain Q&A 

 

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Professional Search Consulting Services

Prequalified vendors for Professional Search Consulting Services (in alphabetical order): 

  • Boyden Vancouver Inc.
  • Harbour West Consulting
  • Impact Recruitment Inc.
  • Janet Soles and Associates
  • Knightsbridge Robertson Surrette
  • Leaders International Executive Search
  • McDermott + Bull
  • Odgers Berndtson
  • Perrett Laver
  • Pinton Forrest & Madden Group Inc.
  • DN Recruitment Group Ltd. D.B.A Mosaic Search 

Recruitment Services

Administrative and IT Staffing: Altis Human Resources (Vancouver) Inc.

Vehicle rental

 

Visit the Financial Planning website for rental vehicle insurance details.

LDW (Loss & Damage Waiver) is required for all vehicle rentals to provide coverage for physical damage to the vehicle. 

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Budget Rental Car rates

Enterprise & National rates

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Personal use discount program

Disclaimer and conditions of use

Purchasing Services established a number of pricing agreements that may also be used by UVic staff and Faculty for personal use.

You are required to provide your User ID and University issued password to access this site.

The ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø assumes no responsibility for any payment, warranties, misplaced, lost or damaged deliveries nor guarantees for any purchase transacted through this website between the purchaser (user) and merchant (supplier).

View the list of discounts offered in the Greater Victoria community. 

Accommodation

Accent Inns

Accent Inns rate information

Best Western

  Request Government rate

Hotel Le Soleil

  Request CAUBO rate

Marriott Hotels

  Request corporate rate code "UV2"

Park Inn

   Request Government rate

Food and beverage

Hot House Pizza

Staff & student discount of 10% off the regular price for pick-up and delivery orders. 

Old Victoria Water Company

Home program rates

Home and office

Columbia Fire & Safety

offers a discount of up to 25% off list price with presentation of UVic ID.

General Paint

offers a trade discount with presentation of UVic ID.

Island Blue

offers a discount of 10% with presentation of UVic ID.  Please advise if you phone in your order that discount applies.

BC Moving & Storage

 offers a preferred rate to Uvic employees. 

 

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Rogers

Discounted plans and devices are available through the .  If you have questions about the Rogers Preferred Program, please call 1-866-462-4468 or email rpp@imaginewireless.net 

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Travel

Direct Travel

Vision Travel operates the leisure travel side of Direct Travel and can be reached via vacation.travel@dt.com or by calling 250-412-1890 (Victoria) or 1-833-360-8430.  

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Car Rentals 

Vehicle Rental rates & conditions as outlined under "preferred suppliers / vehicle rental" are also available for personal use. 

 

Clipper 

Uvic students, Faculty and staff are offered a 10% discount on ferry travel onboard Victoria Clipper V and Whale Watching trips. 

Call 800-888-2535 or book online at

Use promo code: UVIC 

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