See response below.

xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG on 07/16/2003 01:41:32 PM

Please respond to Research Administration Discussion List <xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG>

To:   xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
cc:    (bcc: M. Melody Page/MDACC)
Subject:  [RESADM-L] Centralized vs. Decentralized Approval of Purchase
 Requisitions for Sponsored Projects

I am interested to know how universities handle purchase requisitions for
sponsored projects.

Are all purchase requisitions approved centrally ?  No

Does central administration approve only purchase requisitions over a
certain threshold/dollar amount ?  No

Does central administration approve certain purchase requisitions only (such
as only equipment and/or subcontracts) ?  At our institution, the only items
that do not go through a centralized approved process are those listed on the
"item file".  The items that are on the item file and allowed to go through are
mostly laboratory and patient care supplies.

Melody Page
Grants & Contracts Accounting
UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
713-745-9413 phone
713-796-0381 fax
e-mail:  xxxxxx@mdanderson.org

Thanks for your input !

Sue Logan, CPA, CRA

Assistant Director, Contracts and Grants

Division of Research and Graduate Studies

Florida Atlantic University

3731 FAU Boulevard, RD7

Boca Raton, FL  33431

(561) 297-2606  phone

(561) 297-2319  fax

xxxxxx@fau.edu

http://www.fau.edu/research/ocg/index.html

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