{"id":1902,"date":"2020-06-01T09:31:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T08:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2020-06-01T09:31:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T08:31:12","slug":"update-to-purchasing-process-business-justification-form-for-new-spend-of-5k-and-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2020\/06\/01\/update-to-purchasing-process-business-justification-form-for-new-spend-of-5k-and-above\/","title":{"rendered":"Update to purchasing process: business justification form for new spend of \u00a35k and above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our recent correspondence regarding updated purchasing processes, a template to be used when supplying your business justifications for <strong>proposed spend commitments of \u00a35k and above <\/strong>can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/finance-staff\/docs\/fpa\/TEMPLATE BUSINESS JUSTIFICATION FOR PROPOSED EXPENDITURE.docx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When raising a Purchase Requisition or Purchase Order at or above the \u00a35k threshold, please ensure a completed copy of this form is attached via the Document Archive (guidance on how to do so is included on the form).<\/p>\n<p>Please remember that\u00a0<strong>any spend should only be made if essential<\/strong>. We recommend that you consult with your relevant budget holder(s) in the first instance to seek clarification or confirmation on an item&#8217;s necessity.<\/p>\n<p>Research\u00a0project\u00a0and KIE project spend falls outside of this procedure and will continue to be supported by those sections as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our recent correspondence regarding updated purchasing processes, a template to be used when supplying your business justifications for proposed spend commitments of \u00a35k &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2020\/06\/01\/update-to-purchasing-process-business-justification-form-for-new-spend-of-5k-and-above\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40046,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137327,137335],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}