March 30th is National Doctor’s Day and as a show of appreciation and their continued partnership with the Anschutz campus, the Hyatt Regency Aurora-Denver Conference Center is offering food & drink specials all day at their in-house restaurant, Borealis.
Due to inclement weather, the Concur 101 webinar originally scheduled for February 23rd has been rescheduled to March 16th at 11am.
It’s hard to believe that Fiscal Year End is just around the corner! If you have a purchase or contract that must be completed by June 30th, please submit all required documentation to the PSC on or before these deadlines to allow for timely completion of your purchase.
In January, the Procurement Service Center updated the University’s Procurement Rule to update its purchasing thresholds to allow for informal competitive quotes by campus departments for purchases between $10,000.01 and $100,000 rather than requiring a Document Quote to be issued. This rule change is both compliant with Federal Uniform Guidance for grant and contract purchases and ensures that the University is being fiscally responsible with its purchases.
The PSC will host a CU Marketplace 101 webinar on 3/8/23 from 2 – 3 pm MST. This course will focus on Requestor, Approver, and Invoice Approver roles and will include time for Q&A at the end.
If travel itineraries are being added to your calendar when you receive email reminders, your Outlook settings may need to be updated to prevent this from happening. To update, you there are five simple steps you can follow.
Departments and employees are encouraged to resolve and submit all outstanding card transactions in Concur before their last day of employment. Discovering unreconciled expenses in Concur following an employee’s last day of work should be infrequent, however we understand that it does happen. Historically, departments with an employee who terminated before reconciling all Commercial Card transactions would work with the PSC to have those charges reassigned to a remaining active employee who is also a cardholder. That active cardholder employee would then prepare and submit those expenses left by the separated employee from their own Concur profile.
The domain, THERMOFISHERLIFESCIENCE.COM, has been identified as a look-alike for one of Thermo Fisher’s registered domains. The domain is NOT owned by Thermo Fisher Scientific and is believed to have been created with malicious intent and may be used to fraudulently engage colleagues, customers, and vendors.
The PSC will host a Concur 101 webinar on 2/23/23 from 2 – 3 pm MST.  The course will cover information you need to know before you travel, how to create a report, travel reconciliation, expense entries, and report review/report submission. 
As communicated in the December PSC newsletter, CU has ended its emergency declaration that temporarily increased our bid thresholds for non-federal purchases. Effective January 1st, CU’s bid threshold is $100,000 for all goods and services. This is the threshold at which the PSC is required to issue a Documented Quote or Request for Proposals prior to issuing a purchase order.

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