Announcement of an Exempt Purchase

The University is migrating from their existing perpetual software licenses (the Existing Applications) to the UKG Ready Software Ready software as a service offering. The University's Software Support and/or Cloud Hosting services (as applicable) for the Existing Applications shall continue in accordance with UKG's Support policies.

This purchase is exempt from the usual selection processes of the Procurement Code because the procurement expenditure is for procurement expenditures for any ongoing software license or maintenance agreement or competitively solicited software purchase, when the software, license, or maintenance agreement is available through only the software creator or its manufacturer and not a reseller ( 30 ILCS 500/1-13 (b)(10)) Procurement expenditures for any ongoing software license or maintenance agreement or competitively solicited software purchase, when the software, license, or maintenance agreement is available through only the software creator or its manufacturer and not a reseller.