Welcome, vendors!
Here, you will find a variety of resources for you to meet all your social procurement needs.
Communicating your social value
Learn how to effectively communicate your social impact within the public sector. This tool explores key priorities help vendors improve their strategy to pique the public's interest and add value to their bids and quotes.
Navigating public sector procurement as a small business
This tool provides an overview of competitive bids and how York University is required to demonstrate best value as a public sector institution. How we determine best value varies depending on how much we spend. Explore the different spending thresholds and requirements at each level.
Responding to RFPs at York: Part 1
Responding to a competitive bid is a big undertaking. Often, when something goes to a public competitive tender, there’s a large price tag associated with the work. As a public-sector organization, we need to make sure we’re getting the best value for the University and taxpayer’s money. This tool outlines the most requested documents in a competitive tender.
Responding to RFPs at York: Part 2
This tool is designed to complement the tender document vendor partners will encounter if they have downloaded the document from Merx. This is where we post all of our competitive tenders over $100,000. You must have an account to respond to the bid. Once you download the tender documentation, please ensure you have read the sections outlining deadlines and communications for guidance on how to submit the documents requested in the Tender and key dates you’ll need to be aware of.
Creating positive change
In 2019, York University became one of the first universities in Canada to pass a social procurement policy. Through this policy, vendors involved in building Markham Campus are being drawn from the local community and equity-deserving residents are being employed.
The premise is simple: as York University benefits, local communities should share in the success. Join us in creating positive change at https://www.yorku.ca/markham/
