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Scam Alert: Fake Emails Impersonating CPO-GS

Be alert for fraudulent emails attempting to steal your banking information, login credentials, credit card details, or attempting to request payments. The Chief Procurement Office for General Services (CPO-GS) will never request financial information or payments via email or text message and only in limited circumstances request personal information. To confirm official communications and legitimate emails from the CPO-GS, email cpo.gs@illinois.gov.

Registration

Registration Process

  1. Attend training
  2. Complete registration form including required signatures
  3. Submit form to StateUser.BidBuy@illinois.gov​ (2-3 days turnaround time)
  4. Receive email from BidBuy with registration login/details

Forms

  • Registration Form Download and Requirements:
    • New Users: please ensure form is fully filled out, and has signatures from the employee and authorized approver.
      • An authorized approver is the agency head or designee.
      • A form is considered fully filled out when all agency/organization, department, email, user info etc, is completed.
      • Please see the FAQ page for helpful information on Agency > Department > Location > Address fields
    • Modifying Users: Please ensure form is fully completed with authorized approver/designee signature.
    • Deleting Users: Please ensure form is fully filled out, DO NOT LEAVE OUT THE AGENCY, and has at least the signature from authorized approver/designee.
    • Unless you are part of the BB team, you will not be permitted "Administrator" access.
    • You will get only the access you have marked on the forms, exactly as you have marked them.
    • Forms missing necessary signatures for any requested account actions will not be entered into the system.
  • BidBuy User Roles and Definitions
  • Appendix A - Additional Registration Form