Buying Capital Equipment

1. Supplier Information

1. (Required) Enter the Supplier or select Supplier Search to locate the supplier associated with the Equipment purchase 

2. Equipment Information

This section provides information related to the details of the equipment purchase. Information entered for the Equipment Description, Equipment Category, Used for Research, Manufacturer Name, Manufacturer Part Number or Model Name, In a Core as well as the Quote Number are searchable within the Asset Management system and the Capital Equipment Web Search page. 

1. (Required) The Equipment Description should include the type of equipment and/or a list of major components that make up the equipment configuration.
2. (Required) Select the Equipment Category for the purchase. Currently the Equipment Categories available apply broadly to Research Equipment. If you do not find an equipment category that applies to your purchase but is research related, select equipment category Other-Research. If your purchase does not apply to research equipment, select Other-Non-Research.

3. (Required) Use for Research, select Yes or No. Refer to the following grid for guidance. All answers to the posed questions must equal Yes, in order to select an option of Yes.

   QUESTION	SCENARIO 1
   1. Does the equipment support R&D activities related to one of the following: a. Biological Science (NAICS code 541711) b. Physical Science (NAICS code 541712)	Yes
   2. Is over 50 percent of the equipment time used for qualified R&D activities?	Yes
   3. Is the equipment useful life greater than one year?	Yes
   4. Is the cost of the equipment greater or equal to $5,000?	Yes
   Research Flag	Yes

4. (Required) Provide the Manufacturer Name and Manufacturer Part Number (this is the model number and may be the same as the supplier’s part number).
5. Provide the Supplier Part Number (this is the supplier’s identification number for the equipment model).
6. Provide the Quote Number
7. (Required) In the Price field enter the price of the equipment.
   1. Include the value of any software that is essential to running the equipment (it is part of the capitalized price). Do not include any software that is listed on the quotation as an additional item. Do not include software that is not critical to the operation of the equipment. 
   2. Reduce the price by the amount of trade-in amount. For example, if the equipment is $5,500 and the trade-in amount is $500, enter the Price as $5,000) Note: this form is not designed to calculate sales tax on trade-in value.
8. (Required) Enter the Quantity.
9. If there is a trade-in, enter the value in the Trade In Amount field.
   1. If there is a trade-in, specify the Tag Number of the equipment to be traded in in the Additional Internal Comment field. The Tag Number is noted on a Capital Accounting Tag placed on the equipment.
10. Add additional, separate PO lines that match the quote, and review and flag PO lines as Capital Expense or Taxable. Ensure that the correct commodity code is used for Capital and Non-Capital lines. *Failure to do so may cause missing assets and/or require departments to enter correction journals.

3. Additional Equipment Information

This section allows you to communicate with the Controller’s office by indicating how you would like to manage the equipment once it is capitalized in the Asset Management system. The Controller’s office may follow-up with you on any questions they have regarding your instructions.

1. (Required) Part of an existing system? Select Yes or No if the equipment purchase should be added to the value of existing tagged equipment
2. If the answer to the above is Yes? Enter the Tag# for the existing system. 
3. (Required) Track Equipment Components Separately? Select Yes or No if you would like the equipment purchased broken up into multiple tag #s. This action will allow maintenance information to be tracked and maintained per equipment component in the Asset Management system and provides visibility by tag #s of each component during the physical inventory process. Each Component of the order must meet the threshold of $5,000 and above requirement to receive a separate tag #.
4. Capitalization Instructions: If the answer to the above is yes. Provide instructions to Capital Accounting as to how many asset tags you want and how to group them.
   1. Instruction Examples:
      Ex.1 “Please capitalize as one single system”
      Ex. 2 “Please create separate tags to track lens separately, costing $7,000 each” from Microscopes
      Ex. 3 “Assets to be tracked as 3 systems, each comprised of:
                (1) Base unit @ $6,000, (3) Accessories @ $2,000), and software separated as (3) systems.”
5. (Required) In a Core? Select Yes or No if the equipment purchased will be part of a Core. “In a Core" is defined as a shared resource laboratory that provides services, products, and/or equipment to the UCSF research community 
6. (Required) Exclude from Capital Equipment Web Search? Select Yes or No.  A selection of “Yes” will prevent the equipment from appearing in UCSF’s Capital Equipment Web Search page open to employees under UCSFs Intranet. 

4. Installation and Warranty Details

1. Use the Additional Installation Information field to include information such as the expected date(s) of installation, duration, any special requirements needed by vendor, etc.
2. The Additional Warranty Information field can be used to identify general warranty provisions such as warranty period, usually expressed in a number of days, e.g., 90 days (calendar days unless otherwise stated) and coverage (e.g., parts, labor and travel).

5. Delivery Information

1. Delivery Contact Information identifies the person that the equipment will be delivered to. Typically this is not the same person as the Requester or Requisition Approver of an order.

6. Department Information

1. (Required) Complete the Department Information. Specify the department name as well as the contact information for the departmental person who will answer technical questions (e.g. setting up equipment, equipment functionality, etc.) about the equipment.

7. Price Reasonableness and Source Selection

This section is required when making a purchase on goods or services using either federally funded dollars of $10,000 or more, or non-federally funded dollars of $25,000 or more per Federal and/or UC/State policy/guidelines. This information must be documented in BearBuy.

1. The Source Selection refers to the process of selecting and contracting with the most qualified proposal that meets UCSF’s requirements. There are four options for Source Selection that can be selected. If you are unsure of the Source Selection type, contact your department-assigned buyer. 
   1. If selecting New or Existing Bid, enter the bid number you will be using.
   2. If selecting Non-Formal Quotes, attach three competitive informal quotes and provide Price Reasonableness information. 
   3. If selecting Registered Small Business, provide Price Reasonableness information.
   4. If selecting Sole Source, provide Sole Source Justification and Price Reasonableness information.

8. Attachments

1. (Required) External attachments: Add a detailed Statement of Work must be attached before submitting this form. Attach any relevant supporting documents (i.e. vendor quote, technical specifications, warranty information, service level agreements, etc.) If available, also attach the Vendor Quote/Proposal.
2. Internal Attachments: If available attach a product image. The image can be reviewed throughout the approval process

9. Additional Instructions

1. Complete a separate Capital Equipment Form for each piece of equipment ordered on the requisition.
   1. To do this, fill out the Capital Equipment Form completely for the first piece of equipment, then from the Available Actions dropdown on the form, select Add to cart and click the Go button. This will add the form to the cart and keep the form open with all the information previously filled out on the form.
   2. You can reuse the form to add the next piece of equipment by changing the appropriate sections of the form and adding the form to the cart again.
2. Indicate whether your equipment is taxable in the cart.
   1. If the equipment is taxable, check the Taxable checkbox for each line.
   2. If the equipment is not taxable, do not check the Taxable checkbox for each line.
3. Specify the asset management codes for the users who will manage the equipment in the Asset Management System, especially the Custody Code for the Custodian of the equipment and if known the Curator Name of the lab personal or other party
   1. After clicking the Proceed to Checkout button, navigate to the Asset Management tab.
   2. Input the Custody Code, Asset Location and Curator Name.
   3. Input the Tag Number ONLY if the purchase is adding to the value of an existing piece of equipment.
      1. Add-to-Value vs. Replacement component Add-to-Value refers to a component part with a cost of $5,000 or greater which permanently increases the value or useful life of an existing University owned unit of inventorial equipment and is added to the value of that unit as a capital transaction. The description of upgraded equipment items should be revised to reflect any material enhancements.
   4. If you have a different set of asset management codes for each piece of equipment, specify them for each line.
4. This form will default a commodity code of ‘00330 – Inventorial Equipment ≥$5,000’, this   will make the Account default to ‘52603’. If you are purchasing Computers ≥$5,000’, please manually code the PO line to ‘52601’.
   1. If the equipment purchase uses sponsored project funding sources, please specify the following Accounts for each sponsored project funding source in the Accounting Codes (chartfields) section during checkout:
      1. 51321 - Sponsored proj equip ≥$5K, non-comp
      2. 51322 - Sponsored proj computer ≥$5K
      3. 51323 – Sponsored proj software ≥$5K

Otherwise, please select the correct Commodity Code for each PO line