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Doing Business with uWaterloo

Welcome to Doing Business with uWaterloo

uWaterloo conducts business with many suppliers in a fair and equitable manner. THis site has been provided as a guide for potential and current suppliers on uWaterloo Procurement's business practices and procedures.

University of Waterloo was founded in 1957, the University of Waterloo is one of Canada's leading comprehensive universities , with undergraduate and graduate programs in Applied Health Sciences, Arts, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Mathematics and Science. UW is one of seventeen provincially assisted universities in Ontario and offers North America's largest co-operative education program. Including its four Federated and Affiliated Colleges, UW's full-time enrollment is more than 25,391 students making it the fifth largest in Ontario and the thirteenth largest in Canada. Total part-time enrollment is approximately 2,587 students.

The University has over 977 full-time faculty and over 2,251 full-time staff located on its 1000 acres campus in Waterloo.

Major challenges facing all Ontario universities in the coming years are increasing enrollments at a time when tuition fees and operating grants are highly constrained and intense competition exists for both human resources and goods and services. It is with the intent of gaining the very best value for the expenditure that we offer the following opportunity to the open and competitive marketplace.

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