Current Certificants

UPPCC Certified Agencies

UPPCC Agency Certification Application

Through its Agency Certification Award program, the Universal Public Purchasing Certification Council (UPPCC) identifies organizations that have earned the distinguished and unique honor of achieving and/or maintaining a high percentage of staff that are UPPCC Certified. This program was developed to recognize those organizations that have made a concerted effort to achieve procurement excellence.

Each agency category has a specified percentage of qualifying procurement staff that must be UPPCC certified in order to achieve the award. These three categories corresponding requirements are as follows:

• Small Agency (1-11 qualifying employees): 100% of qualifying staff must be UPPCC certified in order to achieve the award

• Mid-Sized Agency (12-50 qualifying employees): 90% of qualifying staff must be UPPCC certified in order to achieve the award

• Large Agency (51+ qualifying employees): 75% of qualifying staff must be UPPCC certified in order to achieve the award

The UPPCC Agency Certification Award is an annual recognition for which qualifying agencies must apply every year for consideration. The Sterling Agency Award, is an advanced level of recognition reserved for those agencies that apply for and achieve UPPCC Agency Certification Award recognition for three consecutive years.

Application Process

The application for UPPCC Agency Certification is available on a continuous basis allowing agencies to apply at any time during a given calendar year for recognition. Agencies must apply during the calendar year in order to receive recognition for that year. To be included in the award announcements at the NIGP Annual Forum, the UPPCC must receive your application for processing no later than June 1. Successful agency applications received after that date will still be recognized for that calendar year, but publicly recognized at the NIGP Annual Forum the following year. Applications may be faxed to 703-796-9611 or emailed to certification@uppcc.org

Agency Certification Award

The agency must submit an application to receive recognition at anytime during the calendar year. The recognition is valid only for the current calendar year in which the agency applies regardless of the month during the year in which the application was received by the UPPCC. The agency must reapply for recognition in each subsequent calendar year to maintain their fully certified status. The maintenance of fully certified status is important for those agencies pursuing the Sterling Agency Award. Agency recognition for fully certified is in the form of a framed certificate bearing the agency's name and the calendar year in which the recognition was earned. A list of agencies who have received the UPPCC Agency Certification Award is maintained on the UPPCC website.

Sterling Agency Awards

An agency must submit an application and receive Agency Certification Award recognition from the UPPCC for three consecutive years to be eligible for the Sterling Agency Award. On the third consecutive year that the agency is recognized, UPPCC will automatically issue the Sterling Agency Award. There is no additional application to complete for Sterling Agency. The UPPCC issues the Sterling Agency Award to individual agencies based on historical records of previous applications and awards. For example an agency receiving the Sterling Agency Award in 2009 would have applied and received confirmation of earning the Agency Certification Award in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The agency will automatically be issued UPPCC's most prestigious agency recognition award, the Sterling Agency Award in addition to the Agency Certification Award during the calendar year in which the agency files their third consecutive Agency Certification Award application and receives recognition by the UPPCC. A list of agencies who received Sterling Agency Awards is maintained on the UPPCC website.