Purchasing Computers can be a confusing experience. This guide will hopefully make that experience a little less daunting.
What you should know
All Computer Purchases must comply with the University of Brighton's financial regulations, which can be found on the Finance pages of staffcentral
The University has specific supply contracts in place that ensure that we get best ‘value for money' on our purchases. This does not necessarily mean the cheapest equipment,at first glance. These contracts comply with the financial regulations of the University, as well as European legislation regarding purchasing by publicly funded organisations, and are managed by Desktop Systems.
All systems purchased must have a minimum three years onsite warranty (where available) and will be supported by the Helpdesk unless specifically agreed otherwise.
All equipment must be ordered via an eFin requisition, with either ASG1 or SSP4 used as the buyer code. Each department will have authorised personnel to raise the eFin requisitions to purchase equipment for the department. If you are not aware of whom these people are, your line manager should be able to advise.
Any Computers purchased without following the procedures outlined here, i.e. personally purchased or directly ordered by a department, will not have any maintenance/warranty cover provided by the Helpdesk and the University is under no obligation to reimburse the individual responsible. In addition the computer in question may not be eligible to receive any of the University licensed software.
If you have any queries you can contact Alister Greenway (
), Technical Purchasing Officer, or Selwyn Percival (
), Computer Store Supervisor, for further information.
