850/644-6850Purchasing Services
Welcome to the Purchasing Department Web Site! This site is an effort to provide you, our clients, with easily accessible and more timely information about the purchasing process. All of our Purchasing Agents and staff are dedicated to providing your department with the supplies and equipment you need, when you need them, and at the most economical price. Please contact any member of the Purchasing staff with any suggestions, questions or concerns.
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GOODS AND SERVICES PROCUREMENT GUIDE
(Previously known as How To Buy)
Click on this link to reach the Goods and Services Procurement Guide,
your source for comprehensive ordering information, assembled in an easy to use format. In addition to basic information about ordering requirements, it contains "How To Buy" details about required-use contracts, preferred vendor contracts, other available contracts, EMarket Catalogs (identified by the icon 
), Diversity Suppliers (identified by the icon 
), and much more.
Important Reminder Regarding Vendor Selection and Price Quotes:
The Director of Purchasing Services, as Chief Procurement Officer for the University, is solely responsible for vendor selection and price negotiations,
through delegation by the University Board of Trustees and the President.
The Guide was developed and is regularly updated to provide departments with instant access to information about the correct way to order the
most commonly purchased goods and services. Consulting the Guide as soon as the need to purchase goods or services aries, prior to any contact with potential suppliers, will help to avoid misunderstandings while decreasing
the time it takes obtain the goods or services. If information about the goods or services you need isn't found in the Guide, you should contact the appropriate Purchasing Specialist prior to taking any other actions, and prior to any contact with potential suppliers. You can locate the correct Purchasing Specialist by calling (850)644-6850 or clicking on: http://purchasing.fsu.edu/commodity.html
The Goods and Services Procurement Guide will always be a work in progress, and your comments and suggestions about the Guide or any other issue related to procurement are always welcome. Please send emails to
Marcie Doolittle, Director of Purchasing Services: mcdoolittle@fsu.edu or
telephone (850)644-9719.
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EMARKET
Purchasing Services welcomes you to the EMarket method of buying goods and services. As a shopper you will be able to shop by just pointing and clicking in catalogs from our contract vendors. As a requestor you will be able to grab carts created by your shoppers and drop the cart into your requisition. Please check out the EMarket detailing how the EMarket system works!
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