Grant Equipment: Difference between revisions

         <td width="60%">Section 6.0 - Policy</td>

         <td width="40%">Originating Date: April, 1996</td>

                 <td>Revised: August, 1998<br />Revised: [[Grant Equipment Policy version February 2008|February, 2008]]<br />Revised: March, 2015</td>

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         <li style="margin-bottom:15px;text-indent:3em;">The College of Nursing follows all UNMC (Policy 5000), University of Nebraska and State guidelines regarding the purchase of equipment.</li>

         <li style="margin-bottom:15px;text-indent:3em;">All equipment purchased on a grant, on which the Principal Investigator (PI) or Project Director (PD) is a faculty member in the College of Nursing, is the property of the College.  </li>

         <li style="margin-bottom:15px;text-indent:3em;">The PI/PD initiates the purchase of research equipment through the Administrator in the Niedfelt Nursing Research Center (NNRC).  The Workstation Specialists must be consulted about the purchase of computer equipment and must authorize and place into inventory all such hardware and software.  Instructional equipment needs should be reviewed by the appropriate Learning Resource Center Coordinator.  </li>

         <li style="margin-bottom:15px;text-indent:3em;">For purchase of equipment over $150,000, a competitive bidding process managed by the UNMC Purchasing Department must take place.</li>

         <li style="margin-bottom:15px;text-indent:3em;">The NNRC Administrator maintains an inventory of all grant related equipment.  The Workstation Specialists also maintain an inventory of computer equipment.  In addition, the PI or PD of a grant should also maintain a separate inventory. </li>

         <li style="margin-bottom:15px;text-indent:3em;">Equipment costing $5,000 or more will be marked by UNMC Inventory Control with a standard asset identification tag.  Computer equipment over $100 and less than $5,000 will be marked with the appropriate CON asset identification tag by the Workstation Specialists. </li>

         <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Service contracts and/or other maintenance expenses for equipment purchased on a grant are charged to the grant.  Upon termination of a grant, ongoing maintenance may be dropped, charged to a CON maintenance account or may be covered by NNRC, Learning Resource Center or Division funds. Authorization for charges to these funds must be pre-approved by the individual accountable for the budget to be charged.</li>