Welcome to the Materials Management Department

You have reached the Home Page for the Department of Materials Management at The University of Texas-Pan American. We Are located in the first floor of the Marialice Shary Shivers Administration Bldg. Our site is intended to make us more accessible to the business community, other educational institutions, and to University employees. Browse through our pages and get to know us and what we do. Please remember our site is for informational purposes only. Check back with us in the future for additional information and updates.

Mission Statement

The Department of Materials Management strives to provide efficient and responsive procurement and related services to University departments with exceptional customer service and with the highest standards of ethics.

University Awards Office Supplies Contract

The Materials Management Department is pleased to announce a new consolidated office supply program for UTPA. Staples Business Advantage has been selected as UTPA's primary office supplies provider. This new program offers UTPA departments an efficient and convenient ordering process, lower costs for office supplies over existing suppliers, and superior customer service. The need to generate small purchase orders (SPOs) will not be necessary when ordering from the Staples contract (up to $5,000 per order).

Features of this new program include:

• Customized WEB ordering
• Customized Easy Order Electronic Shopping Lists
• Electronic order approval
• Electronic billing
• Direct allocation of expenses to departmental budgeted accounts
• Individual Staples account set-up for each department (upon request by account manager)
• Online package tracking and returns
• Free delivery
• Deliveries made to Central Receiving*
• Dedicated Staples Account Manager
• World Class customer service
• 100% Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) credit through fulfillment partner
• Integration to Oracle ERP System
• Emergency purchases at local Staples retail store **
• Long-term contract***

*Central Receiving will make all office supplies deliveries to campus departments

**Orders will be placed via Stapleslink.com

***5 years + 5 one-year renewals at UTPA's option