{"id":1988,"date":"2020-10-01T17:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2020-10-01T17:31:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:31:13","slug":"procurement-update-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2020\/10\/01\/procurement-update-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Procurement Update: Procurement Strategy and No PO, No Pay in effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Procurement Strategy for 2020-23 is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/finance\/docs\/procurement\/UoK%20Procurement%20Strategy%202020-23%20External%20Version.pdf\">available<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;No PO, No Pay&#8221; initiative is now in effect and any invoices submitted without quoting a Purchase Order may be rejected unpaid. External suppliers <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">must<\/span> now ensure that they have a valid Purchase Order from the University before commencing work except under very limited and exceptional circumstances. You can find additional information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/finance\/procurement\/index.html?tab=no-po-no-pay-faqs\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Procurement Strategy for 2020-23 is now available. The &#8220;No PO, No Pay&#8221; initiative is now in effect and any invoices submitted without quoting a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2020\/10\/01\/procurement-update-6\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49083,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137335],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988"}],"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\/49083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}