{"id":301,"date":"2011-06-06T20:41:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T20:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/purchasing-and-purchase-orders\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T11:11:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:11:48","slug":"purchasing-and-purchase-orders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/accounts-payable-2\/purchasing-and-purchase-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchasing and Purchase Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All purchases that are paid for with College resources\u00a0must be for goods and services that further the mission and academic programs of the College.<\/p>\n<p>In support of our local communities and the Maine economy, the college encourages the selection of local and Maine-made sources for the purchase of goods and services whenever it is applicable and financially reasonable to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Purchases of tangible goods and equipment (such as computers, printers, cameras, etc.) that are paid for with College resources, including endowment funds, donor gifts, Federal and foundation grants and contracts, and general operating funds, are owned by the College and remain College property.<\/p>\n<p>Please see Information &amp; Library Services <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/ils\/policies\/college-equipment\/computer-purchase-and-replacement\/\">Computer Purchase and Replacement<\/a>,and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/ils\/policies\/\">Computer Use<\/a>\u00a0policies for more information regarding computer purchases.<\/p>\n<p>To request a\u00a0Purchase Order\u00a0when requested or required by a vendor, please contact\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/contract\/\">Contract Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For urgent requests, you may also call (207)786-6174 or (207)786-6169.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All purchases that are paid for with College resources\u00a0must be for goods&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":296,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-301","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301\/revisions\/2256"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}