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Reduce Your Annual Equipment Maintenance Costs with Specialty Underwriters

The Specialty Underwriters Equipment Maintenance Program, an innovative alternative to traditional "Original Equipment Maintenance (OEM)" annual equipment maintenance agreements, offers a significant cost savings opportunity to departments without negatively affecting the service provider or the quality and timeliness of equipment repair and service.

Under this new program with Specialty Underwriters, University departments can continue to receive support from the same service providers they currently use, while reducing their annual equipment maintenance cost by an average of 25%.

How to Obtain a Price Quotation

  • If your equipment is currently under a maintenance contract, send a copy of your current contract to the Specialty Underwriters contact listed above.
  • If your equipment is not under a maintenance contract, please submit the following information to the Specialty Underwriters contact listed above.
    • Equipment description
    • Make, model, serial number
    • Equipment location (department name and address)
    • Original purchase price (if available)

How to Obtain Service for Covered Equipment

Contact the following Specialty Underwriters representative assigned to the Penn account.

Specialty Underwriters
Client Service Representative:
Jacki Blaha
Phone #: (800) 558-9910, ext. 2757
Fax #: (414) 216-0354
BEN Buys Supplier #: 331124

Buying Method

A BEN Buys purchase order must be issued to Specialty Underwriters for the quoted price.
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