Thank you for your interest in doing business with UPPERcase! Being innovative and successful in the global market requires collaboration with innovative and capable business partners. Working together is fundamental to a successful and profitable business plan. We welcome the opportunity to connect with others to effectively leverage our intellectual capital for collaborative business propositions.
We solicit and encourage you to contact us if you would like to license our intellectual assets, explore cooperative development, or if you are interested in becoming a supplier or service provider. Furthermore, we are interested in learning about new ideas and technologies that will help meet the needs of our consumers. We will share our intellectual property to help other companies do the same.
We are at the start of our business plan, so the breadth of services for which partnerships will be formed in 2012 is significant. UPPERcase is committed to developing profitable relationships with an eventual ‘Preferred Partner Program.’ The following provides the answers to frequently asked questions on how to get started as a valued business partner with us.
UPPERcase is a newly formed company with an aggressive business plan to take a new invention and product to market. We are seeking business relationships with key suppliers and service professionals to get final product designed, manufactured, in showrooms and supplier catalogs, onto store shelves and into our customer’s homes and businesses.
UPPERcase is keenly interested in licensing our intellectual assets for specific industries and geographies. We also invite ideas that provide an opportunity to extend our IP to products that are aligned with your targeted markets. UPPERcase ‘Target Markets’ and the associated time-frames will always be listed at the top of this web-page. Equal attention and consideration will be given to licensing our assets for your markets.
If the business and economic model are beneficial, UPPERcase will formalize cooperative development agreements. We expect this to go through the proper development phases before formalizing or finalizing an agreement. The areas of interest for UPPERcase include the following:
Yes, we solicit volume pricing of standard hardware suppliers for components such as:
UPPERcase is committed to attracting and growing with partners who demonstrate the following characteristics:
Partners demonstrating both these characteristics and the capability of supporting more than one location or geography may realize expanded sales by leveraging opportunities from several UPPERcase business markets. Some of our partners will eventually be syndicated in a Preferred Partner Program across our business units. Those suppliers growing with us and achieving this designation will be supporting many of our business requirements and thus enjoy significant potential growth as a result. Our goal as a corporation is to cultivate key partnerships for more than 80 percent of our total spend. We invite you to propose and nurture a business relationship that has probability of developing into a Preferred Partner relationship.
Do you have game-changing idea using our products that addresses unmet consumer needs? Do you have a novel way of applying our technology to improve a process? By all means, we’d like to hear from you. Please create a brief proposal explaining your innovation.
Company headquarters are in Texas. Engineering and Operations are in Utah. However, our business plan is to develop key relationships both domestically and internationally. We will source services where they are the most competitive. Don’t let your company’s physical location defer you from submitting a proposal for a business relationship.
The linear extrapolation and up-side potential is simple: if we're growing, you're growing! We believe in generating synergy and allowing companies to work together to maximize their combined impact. The alliances we make are just as important to us as they are to you, so we only engage in efforts that leverage the complementary strengths of both companies.
New products are the key to our growth, and as a supplier or partner, we expect you to continuously provide new product ideas, improved processes and promotional pricing to UPPERcase. New product ideas and concepts are critical to collectively growing our organizations in a sustainable and profitable manner.
We will review all proposals, and communicate if your proposal fits within our business plan. If your proposal fits our strategic plan, and has economic merit, but is outside our current tactical plan, we will consider modifying or appending our plan or time frames.
If we are interested in your proposal, we will contact you to begin exploration within 14 days. We will also provide you with an UPPERcase Executive as a primary contact to further discuss your interest and next steps. Our first objective will be to learn more about your company and to provide you with access to our technical data if the proposal merits it. We are willing to sign a non-disclosure, and expect you are authorized and willing to do the same. If we choose not to proceed with your proposal, we will contact you to let you know of our decision.
We give priority to submissions in areas where we have expressed an interest or have issued a specific request for information or proposal. We will consider submissions that relate to subject matter that we have not requested (‘unsolicited ideas’) on an availability basis.
We ask that you send an email to proposal@UPPERcaseStorage.com. Please include your name, contact information, and proposal in the email. By submitting a proposal, you agree that we may contact you about this and other topics via e-mail, phone, fax or mail. You may opt out of our contact database at any time. By submitting a proposal, you agree to the terms and conditions below.
Yes. UPPERcase is happy to suggest a format and content. Depending on the scope of your product and services, the submittal may vary in the content needed for evaluation. Following are the types of submittals we solicit.
Being aware of the value of your time, we suggest a simple write-up of no more than one page as an introduction. It should explain the suggested scope of your services and capabilities, and your proposed interest in business with UPPERcase, Inc. in an executive summary fashion. We will then participate with you in completing a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and in developing the needed RFI, RFQ or RFP response.
You confirm that all of the following statements are true and that you understand them before you send a submission to us:
