<html><div>Have the dept. issue the p.o. under your name.  You'll get the same price, I'm sure.  We do it that way here every time.</div> <br> <div>At 08:27 AM 4/23/99 -0600, you wrote:</div> <div>>I have been allocated $1500 to purchase some benches for our department.</div> <div>>My question has to do with whether to have the department issue a purchase</div> <div>>order to Jansen (or GRK), or to do the purchase on my own account and sell</div> <div>>them to the department. This will apply to part supply houses when and if</div> <div>>I manage to get a budget line. (I just recently converted from 1/4 time</div> <div>>contract technician to 1/2 time staff, so up to now I have purchased and</div> <div>>resold to the department).</div> <div>></div> <div>>1) Do the various supply houses sell directly to institutions?</div> <div>>2) At what price rate? Suggested retail? Our discount? Other?</div> <div>>3) Any thoughts about the other considerations involved, such as conflict</div> <div>>of interest. (It is a state institution, and subject to purchase</div> <div>>regulations, but I am pretty aware of what those are, and have a good</div> <div>>relationship with our accountant).</div> <div>></div> <div>>Fred S. Sturm, RPT</div> <div>>University of New Mexico</div> > <br> <b>Vince<br> </b><i><<a href="mailto:vince@byu.edu" eudora="autourl">mailto:vince@byu.edu</a>><br> <br> </i></html>