6th December 2022
Following on from the communication regarding a new approach to managing vacancies at Kent, Finance have introduced an approval step for the appointment and engagement of consultancy and contracted staff. This applies where these services are brought in externally, paid for by an invoice, and where the commitment will be over £5,000. This will apply to new engagements, renewals, and contract extensions that are paid for from non-payroll budgets.
This policy does not apply to guest lecturers and spend such as short notice supply of temporary notice such as security, hospitality, and similar. It is intended to reduce use of high-cost resource where not absolutely necessary and unavoidable.
When you raise PO’s/requisitions on UBW you must attach a Business Justification form, which will need to be approved by a budget holder authorised to the value of the work in the same way as the Business Justification Cases. Requisitions on UBW without authorised documents will be rejected.