Procurement & Payment Services
Official Announcements
06/2025 – Emburse Announcement – To ensure a smoother and more seamless rollout experience for all users, we are adjusting the go-live date from July 1 to early in the 2025 fall semester. For more details, please see the full announcement on our P-Card webpage.
06/2025 – Mandatory Vendor Portal Registration – As previously announced in the past procurement newsletters, Procurement & Payment Services is streamlining the vendor registration process with the launch of a new requirement to utilize the BuyLU Supplier Portal. Starting July 1, 2025, all vendors will be required to register through the portal to conduct business with Liberty University. Exceptions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. For more information, questions, or concerns, please send an email to suppliermanagement@liberty.edu.
05/2025 – Liberty University Vendor Expo – Procurement & Payment Services is excited to announce our second annual Vendor Expo, taking place on July 23, 2025, from 11AM – 2PM at the LaHaye Event Space. For more information, or if you are interested in attending, please send an email to suppliermanagement@liberty.edu.
04/2025 – Spring 2025 Training Sessions – The recordings of all the Spring 2025 Procurement training sessions have been uploaded to the Procurement Document Library. You can view them at any time under the training archive folder.
04/2025 – Important End of Fiscal Year Guidance – Procurement & Payment Services needs your help as we approach the end of the fiscal year. Our end-of-year guidance will provide insight into when you need documents and procedures to be finalized so that we have enough time to complete our side of the process. We are excited to work with everyone in this team effort to finish the fiscal year strong. Also, please review our new Procurement Guidance & Instruction documents available in our Newsletter.
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RECEIVE & PAY
Please visit our link above. Benefits include:
- Request assistance from our teams on receiving items.
- Learn the proper procedures from our Payment Services team for handing payments.
- Provide information to your vendor on our various payment options/processes.
TRAVEL & SAVE
Please visit our link above. Benefits include:
- Always updated, need-to-know information on all university-related travel.
- The privilege to take advantage of the loyalty rewards programs and reduced rates available to travelers connected to LU.
REPORT & MANAGE
Please visit our link above. Benefits include:
- Request spend/utilization reports on demand for your department.
- Identifying unknown areas of spend and providing greater visibility for all transactions.
- Popular interest points and trends, spend tracking, contracts, and canned/tailored dashboards.
LIBERTY BRANDING
Please visit our link above. Benefits include:
- Request assistance from our teams on receiving items.
- Explore the LU Branded & LU Branded Free Inventory.
- These items promote support for and increase awareness of our institution, its mission, purposes, and goals.
PROCUREMENT DOCUMENT LIBRARY
Please visit our link above. Benefits include:
- Policies
- Forms
- Training & Videos
- Templates
- Information Archive
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Procurement Survey
If you are interested in taking our survey or have any feedback that you would like to provide, please follow the link. Thank you from the Procurement Team.