The Vendor Sourcing Program is for businesses that have an active solicitation, awarded contract, purchase requirement, or recurring product need and want IS&S to source the items, build a usable quote, and coordinate fulfillment. Each sourcing request begins with a $5 sourcing activation fee.
No sourcing starts until the $5 fee is successfully paid. After payment, the requirement form is opened for that sourcing request. The fee activates the sourcing work; it does not guarantee a source, quote, bid award, or order.
For government vendors, prime contractors, resellers, commercial suppliers, and small or growing businesses that need a sourcing partner behind the requirement. Your company remains responsible for its own bid, certifications, compliance, and customer relationship.
Instead of building every supply chain from scratch, you can send IS&S the requirement and let us work the product side: source candidates, compare exact or allowable equivalent items, validate current availability, account for freight and lead time, and return a commercial quote you can evaluate.
Use IS&S to build the product-cost side before you submit your own bid or quote. We provide sourcing information and a quote with stated validity. Your company decides whether the numbers and compliance fit the opportunity.
If you already have the business, IS&S can revalidate the requirement at order time, confirm current cost and availability, and coordinate the product order under written commercial terms.
We need the actual item description, quantity, UOM, specification, destination, timing, and any substitution restrictions.
Pricing and availability must be current enough for the request. Stale catalog pricing is not treated as a final order cost.
IS&S returns a quote that separates what is confirmed from what is estimated, pending, or subject to validity.
No purchase is triggered until the vendor accepts the IS&S terms and required payment or approved credit arrangement is in place.
A sourcing quote is not a financed order. Before IS&S purchases product for fulfillment, the vendor must satisfy the payment arrangement stated on the accepted order. Approved credit terms, when offered, are separate from program enrollment and may depend on the transaction and account history.
Required before procurement is activated.
The Vendor Sourcing Program does not register a business in government procurement system, the Illinois Procurement Gateway, SAM.gov, or any government procurement system, and it does not provide government-preferred status. Vendors must independently satisfy the registration, eligibility, bid, subcontracting, and contract requirements that apply to their opportunity.
The sourcing activation fee opens one Vendor Sourcing request. IS&S does not review, research, source, price, or work the requirement until payment is confirmed.
Complete this form after paying the $5 sourcing activation fee. IS&S verifies payment before any sourcing work begins.
Your sourcing request may be submitted here, but IS&S will not begin sourcing until the $5 Stripe payment is verified.