Procurement Services Auxiliary Services

Connection

Business Use

Your Apple Connection!

Connection, formerly GovConnection, is Purdue’s preferred supplier for technology products. Connection offers special pricing for all Apple needs as well as all other computer hardware, peripherals and accessories. With more than 415,000 products available from hundreds of manufacturers, Connection is a one stop shop for IT needs.

Purdue Dedicated Contact

Darren Gullen
Darren.gullen@connection.com
800-986-9245

Catalog

A “view only” catalog is available for employees to access Purdue special discount pricing. Orders must be submitted through the Ariba catalog as they may not be placed from the view-only catalog. To initially access this catalog, please follow the instructions below: 

  • Send a request to: purchasingrequest@purdue.edu
  • Title the subject line: “Access to Connection View Only – Last Name
  • Email content must only include:
    1. Name of employee needing access
    2. Purdue email address of employee needing access
    3. Department of employee needing access
  • You will receive email communication within 24 hours  with your access and instructions.

Requests may be made on behalf of another employee needing access. Please follow steps above; however, each request must be made separately for each individual needing access.

The view only catalog is only available to Purdue University employees and must be requested in this format or access will be declined.

Personal Use 

Purdue University has partnered with Connection to extend discounted pricing on personal purchases for faculty, staff and students.

Connection is dedicated to fulfilling the unique, specialized IT needs of academic institutions (K-12 and higher education), state and local governments throughout the United States. Connection has more than 100,000 products, a nationwide network of service partners and teams of certified technical experts. Connection can design, build and support end-to-end IT systems—all at once, or in project stages. To get started, go to www.govconnection.com/purdue to browse a sample of products offered at a significant savings, then create your own account to begin shopping. A quick reference guide (DOCX) is available to help walk through the registration and login process. 

Personal use products are subject to sales tax and must be paid with personal funds.