Small Purchase Limits / Competitive Solicitation Thresholds
Updated for Fiscal Year 2020
The Illinois Procurement Code has established small purchase limits/competitive solicitation thresholds for individual procurements of supplies, services, professional or artistic services, and procurement of construction. The small purchase limits/competitive solicitation thresholds are as follows:
Small Purchases
| Purchase Type | Small Purchase Limit / Competitive Solicitation Threshold |
|---|---|
| Supplies, Equipment or General Services (Excludes Professional & Artistic Services) | Less than or equal to $100,000 |
| Construction | Less than or equal to $100,000 |
| Professional and Artistic Services including: • Law • Accounting • Medicine • Dentistry • Clinical Psychology • Custom-Produced Art | Less than $100,000 |
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Those construction-related professional services subject to the Architectural, Engineering and Land Surveying Qualifications Based Selection Act [30 ILCS 535] are exempted from the Procurement Code, and currently are required to be procured through competitive selection procedures if greater than or equal to $25,000.
Real property purchases and capital improvement leases continue to be subject to competitive solicitation through a request for information (RFI) if the purchase/lease is greater than or equal to $100,000 per year or greater than or equal to 10,000 square feet of space.
Small Purchases of $10,000 to $100,000 require multiple quotes. Small purchases using federal or federal pass-through funds, need to comply with the Uniform Guidance Micro-Purchase need for multiple quotes at $10,000. All other small purchases need to comply with the Administrative Rules at Sec.4.2020(a) which include documentation demonstrating competition from multiple vendors greater than or equal to $20,000.
UIC Units are encouraged to solicit at least one quote from a Business Enterprise Program (BEP) certified diverse vendor when available. Such quotes can be informal (e.g., via telephone or email). The multiple quotes must be documented in iBuy Internal Notes or Comments, or attached in iBuy Internal Attachments, and must identify the vendors which provided the quotes and the method by which the quotes were obtained; or the reasons why multiple quotes, including from small and diverse businesses, were not obtained.
A notice is posted with the Rules as they are published at the Illinois Procurement Bulletin – Public Institutions of Higher Education.