Latest Procurement and Supply Management News

Changes to Policy 3-234 and 3-100 approved 4/12/2011

Posted April 21, 2011 in Procurement and Supply Management, Purchasing Card and tagged .

On April 12, 2011, the Board of Trustees approved a new revision of Policy 4-005: Use of Personal Telecommunications Services. Changes to this policy included reassignment of paragraphs from 4-005 that were unrelated to personal telecommunications services and thereby affected … Continue reading →

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New Rules: Travel Per Diem and Equipment Leasing

Posted February 14, 2011 in Procurement and Supply Management, Property Accounting, Travel and tagged .

The following two Rules have been approved.  Read below for implementation dates and a brief description of changes.  Please circulate this information to appropriate persons in your area. NOTE: Administrative Rules carry a level of import that requires considering them … Continue reading →

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FBS Clarifies Procurement Policies

Posted February 8, 2011 in Procurement and Supply Management, Property Accounting and tagged , .

NEW PROCEDURE – Policy 3-100, in reference to Section III.D.2. (Vendor prepayments) This section of University Procurement Policy addresses certain procedural issues related to advance vendor payments, which are generally not allowed.  The new procedure clarifies which approvals are necessary … Continue reading →

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Preferred Methods of Procurement Page Updated

Posted September 20, 2010 in Accounts Payable, Procurement and Supply Management, Purchasing Card and tagged .

Accounts Payable is pleased to announce a newly redesigned Preferred Procurement Matrix. This has been done to help you more easily select the most appropriate methods for both procurement and payment. This matrix will undergo continued content updating over the next … Continue reading →

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Account Chartfield Title Change

Posted September 30, 2009 in Accounts Payable, Financial Reporting and Accounting, Grants and Contracts Accounting, Management Accounting and Analysis, Procurement and Supply Management and tagged .

Accounts 61400 – 61419, previously titled “Equip-Insurable $1,000-$4,999”, has been changed to “Equip-Non Capitl $1,000-$4,999”. if you have any questions.

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Notice of Important Changes to the Limited Purchase Check Program.

Posted September 4, 2009 in Accounts Payable, Procurement and Supply Management, Purchasing Card and tagged .

Effective October 1, 2009, the Limited Purchase Check (LPC) program will be restricted to payments to human subjects. After this date, LPC’s cannot be used for anything other than human subjects payments. Please follow this link for more information on … Continue reading →

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Bookmarking U of U Web Apps

Posted March 13, 2009 in Accounts Payable, Financial Reporting and Accounting, Financial Services Technical Support, Grants and Contracts Accounting, Procurement and Supply Management, Property Accounting, Purchasing Card and tagged .

As reported in an earlier news post, the Financial Web Apps (located in the FS pagelet and FS Admin pagelet) in the Campus Information System have moved to a different WEB Server. As of today, March 13, 2009, ALL OLD Bookmarks for all U … Continue reading →

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PCARD Reallocation down time

Posted February 17, 2009 in Purchasing Card.

The Purchasing Card Reallocation WEB application will be down Wednesday, February 18th until approximately 10:00 AM. We will be performing a required system upgrade. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any concerns, ask us. Click … Continue reading →

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UPAY system updates

Posted February 11, 2009 in Income Accounting, Procurement and Supply Management.

All campus credit card processing using the UPAY system will be down on February 17th from 4:00AM to 6:00AM for systems updates. Contact Lisa Zaelit 581-3968 or Lee Stenquist 585-3617 for questions or Ask Us if you have any questions … Continue reading →

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Financial Web Server Issues Resolved

Posted December 4, 2008 in Accounts Payable, Financial Reporting and Accounting, Financial Services Technical Support, Grants and Contracts Accounting, Income Accounting, Payment Card Acceptance/E-Commerce, Procurement and Supply Management, Property Accounting, Purchasing Card.

The Financial Web Server has experienced intermittent problems the last few weeks. Some of the applications affected by this were: Management Reports, Limited Purchase Checks, PO applications and others. Your patience while we attempted to solve the problems is appreciated. … Continue reading →

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