Looking for Purchasing? You can now find Purchasing topics on the Buying, Finance, and Travel tabs. Check the links below to see specific pages:

• Buying basics
  • Authorizations and Training
  • Basics for the New Buyer (Menu)
  • Become an Online Buyer for Your Department
  • Department Buyer: Roles and Responsibilities
  • Professional Buyer: Roles and Responsibilities
  • Restricted Items

  • What Department Buyers Need to Know

• Different ways to buy
  • Department Order
  • Express Card
  • Express Order
  • High Value Purchase Requisition

  • Recharge

• Equipment asset management
  • Equipment Management (Menu)
  • Equipment Account Codes
  • Equipment Management Basics
  • Tags and UCID Numbers

  • What Property Administrators Need to Know

• IFIS code information
• Account Codes and Their Relationship to Commodity Codes
• Commodity Codes
• Ship To Codes

• Vendor Codes and Address Types

• Information on goods and services
  • Audiovisual Equipment and Supplies
  • Computers and Information Technology (Buying)
  • Consultants
  • Controlled Substances
  • Copiers
  • Furniture
  • Independent Contractors
  • Laboratory Supplies and Chemicals
  • Office Products
  • Printing and Copying
  • Professional Services
  • Radioactive Materials
  • Temporary Employment Services

  • Travel

• Policies and guidelines
  • Accepting Gifts and Gratuities
  • Accepting Incentives and Rebates
  • Anti-Kickback Policy
  • Applying Tax to Purchases of Goods and Services
  • Conflict of Interest/ Employee-Vendor Relationships
  • Restrictions for Contracting with Independent Contractors/ Consultants
  • Purchasing Conduct and Ethics
  • Responsible Buying Practices
  • Sole Source Justification
  • Strategic Sourcing

  • Subcontracts Administration

• Resources and contacts
  • Professional Buyers by Commodity
  • Professional Buyers by Location
  • Equipment Management
  • Marketplace Preview
  • Shop on Campus
  • Small Business Office
  • Purchasing Organizational Chart

While we develop other topics, you can still find information on the Purchasing Web site.

Questions? Contact Purchasing, (858) 534-3084.