Purchasing procedures
There are two ways to pay for equipment:
- credit card (ie, credit card)
- purchase order (PO)
How do you decide which to do? In general, you want to use a purchase order when items are (a) expensive; (b) uncertain in specification; (c) paid for by a grant not attached to one of our two purchasing cards; or (d) sold by a vendor who does not accept MasterCard. If none of these apply, you should use the purchasing card, because it's less paperwork and the order is placed faster.
See the purchasing how-to page for what documentation to produce/keep/sign etc. You can also refer to the University of Toronto financial services department for some university-wide policy.
Vendors
As we compile our own, please look at Ian Spielman's extensive list on the NIST wiki (you may have to sign up for Twiki to view…)
Chemicals
Dynaloy - for cured epoxy solvent (used Dynasolve 165)
