Members of the Columbia University Facilities and Operations team work with a wide variety of vendors covering construction, maintenance and other industries, including general contractors, single trade contractors, as well as technical and creative consultants. The team also works closely with Columbia University Construction Facilities Sourcing, who help to identify sourcing opportunities and strategies that meet our operational and financial goals.
Prospective and current vendors
Please become familiar with four key resources, instructions and policies, including the following:
The basics on how to start working with Columbia University Facilities and Operations
All vendors are expected to comply with the University’s health and safety policies, which include mandatory vaccination.
What a vendor needs to know about working at Columbia
Explore the main resources available to current vendors
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News
Facilities and Operations Joins Ascend NYC Program to Help Minority Businesses Grow and Increase Contract Opportunities
Columbia Facilities and Operations has joined forces with the Business Outreach Center Network to expand the Ascend NYC Program, a business development program that helps increase opportunities for businesses owned by people of color across New York City.
Grow Your Business with the CU Grow Vendor Development Program
The CU Grow Vendor Development program, one of many initiatives led by the CUFO group supporting the University’s comprehensive commitment to create and expand opportunities for minority-, women-, and locally-owned businesses (MWL), is recruiting for Cohort 7 which begins in February 2023.
CU Grow Graduates Sixth Cohort of Minority-, Women- and Locally Owned Businesses
The Columbia Facilities and Operations-led CU Grow Vendor Development Program, designed to help minority-, women- and locally owned (MWL) vendors grow their businesses, graduated its sixth cohort during a ceremony at Faculty House on December 12 – the first in person graduation since the beginning of the pandemic.