Procurement and Contract Services

This year's Merchant Expo will be held on Thursday May 30th, 2013!  Vendor registration will start in March, and attendee registration will start mid-April.

If you are a vendor and are not yet on our vendor email list but would like to be for this year's event, please let us know by sending an email with your contact information to merchant.expo@oregonstate.edu (please keep in mind that this event is for non-construction related goods and services).

List of confirmed vendors for 2013

Merchant Expo 2013 flier to print and post in your department!

Each year as the university’s Fiscal Year comes to an end, Procurement and Contract Services (PaCS) hosts the Merchant Expo. This trade-show event (for non-construction related goods and services) is held at the LaSells Stewart Center and provides vendors the opportunity to rent booth spaces to showcase the goods and services that they can provide to the university. PaCS recognizes the challenges that vendors face in touching base with the large amount of colleges and departments that may be interested in the goods and services their companies can provide. This event is a win-win affair as it provides vendors with a one-stop-shop opportunity to contact OSU staff who are in the market for goods and services they provide and provides OSU staff the opportunity to quickly identify and speak with vendors who can potentially fulfill their departmental procurement needs. With an average of 600 OSU staff members attending, a number of vendors find renting a booth space at the Merchant Expo to be a worthwhile marketing and networking investment.

Here are some of the positive comments PaCS has received from participating vendors:

"Thanks for putting this on. It is a very well managed event."
"Nice reconnecting with some of the staffing I had not seen for a year or two. Some good questions asked."
" In addition to being the most vendor friendly set up I have ever worked with, you always deliver the quality attendees that are promised."
"Your team did an excellent job this year. The students were very helpful with loading and unloading and everything went very smoothly."

If your company desires to increase the amount of business it does with OSU, and the goods and services your company provides are appropriate to the needs of the university you might consider registering for this popular trade show. Please visit this website regularly in the early spring for the opportunity to register for this fun and beneficial event!

List of vendors for 2012

Merchant Expo 2012 Door Prize Winners