Lori,
 
It is my understanding that you have to follow your institutional policy on equipment disposition considering:
 
1)  the grant is was long ago closed
2)  you still have the equipment and
3)  it is very old and obsolute
 
I would contact the institutional person responsible for equipment and have the discussion with them.  In Louisiana, equipment belonged to the state forever, in turn, we were not able to ever dispose of anything.  Ohio, it was eventually sold or discarded.  I am too new in Pennsylvania to know how to handle that yet.
 
good luck!
 
Rene
 
 
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Karen D. Taylor <xxxxxx@temple.edu> wrote:

At my old inst., we used to have old equipment stored in case someone else needed it in the smaller depts.  Does your institution have an equipment “bank”? 

Also, you may want to find out if the equip has been fully depreciated.  The same office (at the old job) handled both the used equip bank and depreciation.  All equip was tagged and logged centrally, and annually surveyed until it reached full depreciation.  If the contract for the grant is nop longer avail, this may be the way to go…

 

 

From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org] On Behalf Of Lori Johnson
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 3:06 PM
To: xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] Obsolete Equipment purchased on Fed Money

 

Hello,

     Could anyone on the ListServe tell us how to dispose of very old, obsolete equipment

that was purchased on federal funds?  The grant has long ago closed so requesting disposition

instructions is not feasible.  The equipment is obsolete so really has no current value.

How do you all handle this situation?

Thanks,

Lori

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