If you are going to search for and respond to events, commodity codes allow you to tell us what types of events you want to be notified about. If you have supplied a current e-mail address and indicated that you want to receive e-mail, then it is easier for our purchasing staff to notify you when we release an event matching any of the commodity codes you have indicated. You maintain commodity codes as part of your Supplier Contact profile, so different Supplier Contacts from your company can be notified about different events.
If you are the primary contact, the codes you set up are your own and do not automatically carry over to other Supplier Contacts you may have set up for your company. If you do not set up commodity codes, you may not see all events on our website and are unlikely to receive e-mail notifications alerting you to events of interest. If we have required that you provide commodity codes, you will not be able to complete registration - and bid on events - without providing at least one code.
Use the Commodity Search field to search the commodity code table. You can expand the Commodity Search field’s filtering capabilities by using the * symbol to replace a portion of a number or word. For example, a commodity code may include a Class Code (100) with multiple Item Codes (10, 20, and 30). If you enter 100* in the Commodity Search field, the search results would display 100-10, 100-20, and 100-30. You will need to add a commodity code in order for your registration to be validated.