Announcement of an Exempt Purchase

Retail system software for point-of-sale (POS) and inventory control, hardware to support both functions, and eCommerce services providing on-line sales to customers. Installation and system integration charges for set up, initial training fees, and maintenance of system. The system supports the retail activities (sales generation and processing,) needed to fund the expenditures for its procurement.

This purchase is exempt from the usual selection processes of the Procurement Code because the procurement expenditure is for events or activities paid for exclusively by revenues generated by the event or activity, gifts, or donations for the event or activity, private grants, or any combination thereof. (30 ILCS 500 / 1-13(b)(2)) This procurement is necessary to run the retail operation at UIC that serves the UIC mission and supports student and faculty access to course materials. We need the system to continue to generate the revenue to pay for this function as well as many other expenses that are inherent in running a retail business. We have chosen to transition our system within the same company that we currently use to an updated version in order to get better service with a great deal of savings, while being able to use most of the hardware that we currently have. The system supports the necessary retail activities (sales generation and processing) needed to fund the expenditures for it's procurement.