IT Strategic Sourcing Center of Excellence

The Information Technology Strategic Sourcing Center of Excellence’s (ITCOE) mission is to leverage its access to all UC locations, understanding of multiple UC functions and expertise in the supplier marketplace to negotiate UC-wide agreements that reduce the cost and risk of acquiring and using IT products and services.

The ITCOE is a high performing, value creating, strategic partner of UC IT and Procurement key stakeholders and is essential to achieving UC’s IT goals. The IT Strategic Sourcing Strategic Plan is available for review to UC staff.

IT Strategic Sourcing News

• New UC-wide agreement COMCAST of California/Colorado LLC, for IPTV services, 1/17/2023
• Annual UC-wide agreement IBM ESSO volume purchase, 1/10/2023
• New UC-wide agreement DELL as the new UC systemwide software VAR for Microsoft, Adobe, Netskope and Microfocus, 1/9/2023
• Termination of UC Tableau Agreement by Salesforce, 11/15/2022
• New UC-wide agreement Ring Central Inc. for Cloud VoIP services, 9/26/2022
• New UC-wide agreement Charter Communications Operating, LLC (Spectrum) for IPTV services, 9/19/2022
• New UC-wide Agreements for Enterprise Video Content Management - Kaltura, Inc and Yuja, Inc., 7/29/22
• New UC-wide agreement with AT&T Inc for Telecommunication Services – local, long-distance, international, toll-free calling, cloud VoIP, and cellular services, 7/20/2022
• New UC-wide agreement with MicroFocus for their network device discovery & asset management solution. 7/12/2022
• "UC Gets 5 Agreements for Assistive Technologies" by Michael Wegmann,  UC IT Blog, May 18, 2022
• New UC-Wide Agreement Windstream Services, May 13, 2022
• New UC-Wide Agreement Spirion Data Detection Software, May 4, 2022
• New UC-Wide Agreement Fischer Identity Management Software, May 4, 2022
• New UC-Wide Agreement Verizon Wireless for Cellular Services, May 12, 2022
• New 5 UC-Wide Agreements Assistive Technology Solutions , May 3, 2022
• New UC-wide Agreement Netskope CASB Software, May 4, 2022
• New UC-wide Agreement Zoom, December 14, 2021
• "New UC Wide Zoom Agreement" by Thomas Trappler, UC IT Blog, March 2, 2022
• "IT Sourcing Achieves $70M in benefit for UC" by Thomas Trappler, UC IT Blog, March 2, 2022
• "UC Gets a Discount for Microsoft Azure" by Thomas Trappler, UC IT Blog, November 18, 2020
• “UC Gets a Systemwide Integrated Library System” by Bala Balakumar, UC IT Blog, June 24, 2020
• “UC Gets Discount for Amazon Web Services,” by Thomas Trappler, UC IT Blog, December 10, 2019
• “UCTech Sponsors – Give a Shout Out!” by Ben Price and Tom Trappler, UC IT Blog, June 12, 2019
• “UC Gets Systemwide Agreement and BAA for Google Cloud Platform – and More!” by Thomas Trappler, UC IT Blog, May 22, 2019
• “UC Gets Systemwide Agreement for Gradescope Online Grading System” by Roshni Pratap, UC IT Blog, April 2, 2019
• “UC Procurement Gets Deals for IT Infrastructure” by Michael Wegmann, UC IT Blog, July 25, 2018.