Procurement Cards S_HUARD@xxxxxx 23 Nov 1999 14:58 EST
Sandy, We have been using procurement cards (p-cards) at UNH for about 3 years now. They are available for grant purchases, inlcuding research supplies (and, if allowable by the grant, office supplies). Issues to pay attention to: whether or not one allows a grant account to be cited as a card's default accounting distribution (at UNH, that happens only with the approval of our office); backup material and retention thereof; implications for mbe/wbe reporting (at UNH, we had to devise a crosswalk between our pcard subsystem and our central vendor file which maintains information on mbe/wbe attributes. Our users have been generally pleased with the pcard program. There is information on the UNH website: http://www.library.unh.edu/proxy/info.htm Suzanne > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Suzanne Huard > Mgr, Information Systems & Technology Tel: 603-862-2005 > Office of Sponsored Research Fax: > 603-862-3564 > University of New Hampshire > Durham, NH 03824 > Mailto:xxxxxx@unh.edu > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ---------- > From: Sandy Schulte > Reply To: Research Administration Discussion List > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 2:27 PM > To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org > Subject: Pro-Cards or Credit Cards for grant supplies > > Are there any institutions allowing PIs to use Pro-Cards or Credit > Cards to charge grant purchases, specifically supplies. We'd like > to hear comments (both pro and con) regarding this practice, if > anyone is using it. UConn uses the cards for departmental > operating purchases, and we would like to extend it to > grants, so we are considering a small pilot program to check out > how well it works for grant supply purchases. We need to know > this info by Monday, if at all possible. Thanks. > Sandy Schulte > Asst Vice Provost for Research Administration > University of Connecticut > Tel: 860-486-0985; FAX 860-486-5381 > > > ====================================================================== > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") > ====================================================================== > > ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================