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The Procurement and Payment Services team has once again committed to participation in the annual "Doing Business Texas Style” Spot Bid Fair & Virtual Expo. The Spot Bid Fair provides an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the university’s commitment to increasing purchases from, and contract awards to, Historically Underutilized Businesses.   

The Central ProCard Office is excited to offer office hours with Amazon Business Prime online. This will allow the Central ProCard Office and Amazon Business to communicate efficiently with end-users to address questions and concerns in a real time capacity.

Please join the Amazon Business Prime (ABP) Online Office Hours Session on 3/11/2021 from 11am - 12pm via the following ZOOM link:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://utexas.zoom.us/j/4630732565

Due to the inclement weather that occurred in February 2021, The University of Texas at Austin is tracking expenses to report for insurance and FEMA purposes. This includes items procured via the ProCard. In order to remain consistent with the verbiage, Accounting and Financial Management asks that vouchers related to these expenses include “FREEZE21” within the transaction line, DTN line, or NOTes of the document in addition to the voucher description. 

A new fiscal year is just around the corner and with that brings two, incredibly tight deadlines for the month of August as it pertains to the ProCard. Our team wants to provide all parties involved in the ProCard process with as much information as possible in an effort to help make sure everyone is successful in closing out the current fiscal year.  

There are two cycle periods as well as two institutional approval deadlines during the month of August. 

In an effort to facilitate business operations continuing, the Central ProCard Team wants to provide you with the following update regarding the procurement of office supplies on a ProCard. Please note this update is temporary and is in effect immediately.

In regards to office supplies, when possible, please continue to use our mandatory contract with Office Max/Office Depot through Today’s Business Solutions (TBS). Please note that office furniture should not be included.

A new guidance page has been launched on the ProCard website with links to documents that will be useful to users after they have attended training.  New documents include: