Author: Brynn Boyer

February 2013 Updates and Announcements

• Procurement Services
  • SPCC Refresher Training Available
  • eVA News & Changes
  • Market Basket Item Comparison
  • Contract Activity
  • Recyclemania
• Bookstore
  • Great Lives Series
• EagleOne
  • CVS Now Accepting EageOne

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SPCC REFRESHER TRAINING AVAILABLE

Procurement Services offers SPCC refresher training every 3^rd Wednesday at 3:00pm, in the Eagle Village 4^th Floor Conference Room. Please contact Melissa Myers at x1057 if you would like to attend.

Upcoming 2013 Training Dates:

• March 20
• April 17
• May 15
• June 19

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eVA NEWS & CHANGES

eVA Downtime

eVA will be down for server maintenance from 5pm. Friday, March 1^st, through 7am Monday, March 4^th. 

During this period eVA Logins (buyer & vendor) and public access to the VBO will be unavailable.

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Message to eVA Buyers regarding State Entered Vendors (SEV)

Please review the following important information as it pertains to using your SPCC in eVA with SEVs.

SEV MEMO

Questions can also be brought forward in the BUG meeting.

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eVA Problems?

If you are experiencing problems with eVA, please contact Pacifique Munezero in Procurement Services at x1127.

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MARKET BASKET ITEM COMPARISON

December 2012 Market Basket survey compared the following items:

* Price as of 12/31/12

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CONTRACT ACTIVITY

• Jumbotron Screen for Commencement – awarded
• Campus-wide Janitorial  Request for Proposal– issued
• CM@Risk (Woodard/Mercer) – in progress
• Equipment Trust Fund Purchases – in progress
• Maintenance for various software and equipment

A current listing of UMW contracts can be found on the Procurement Services website:

http://adminfinance.umw.edu/purchasing/files/2012/10/Summary-list-of-contracts-02-01-13.pdf

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Business Services supports UMW RECYCLEMANIA!

The UMW RecycleMania Shred Event will be held from on March 7.  All work orders to have boxes collected should be submitted no later than March 5 at 4pm.  Please review the following document for all guidelines and instruction.

RecycleMania Guidelines

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BOOKS FROM THE GREAT LIVES LECTURES

The Bookstore will have books available for sale at the Great Lives lecture series during the spring semester.  All lectures are in Dodd Auditorium on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.

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EagleOne NOW ACCEPTED AT CVS!

Your EagleOne ID card is already setup with a debit account, cardholders may add funds at any time. Better yet, sign-up for payroll deduction and as an added bonus and receive a punch card redeemable for one free meal per month at Seacobeck Dining Hall (that’s equivalent to $60 a year).

To sign up, print and complete the FORM and send it to Payroll, 4th Floor, Eagle Landing.  The minimum deduction is only $10 per pay period and you may withdraw from the plan at any time.

See link for a complete list of EagleOne Off Campus Merchant Partners: http://adminfinance.umw.edu/eagleone/eagleone-off-campus-2/

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Please contact Business Services for information and assistance at x1576.

Visit our website: http://adminfinance.umw.edu/business-services

Erma A. Baker   CPPO, VCO
Assistant Vice President for Business Services and CPO
University of Mary Washington
1301 College Avenue
Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401
ebaker@umw.edu
540-654-2043

The White House recently released a searchable online database with information about every U.S. degree-granting institution. The database, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education’s College Affordability and Transparency Center, compares a university’s costs, graduation rate, loan default rate, median borrowing and employment with national averages. According to the White House website, the College Scorecard will “help empower students and families with more transparent information about college costs and outcomes, so that they can choose a school that is affordable, best-suited to meet their needs, and consistent with their educational and career goals.”

UMW’s scorecard is available in PDF format or by searching for “University of Mary Washington” on http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/higher-education/college-score-card.

The results of the second week of RecycleMania show UMW ranked first in Virginia and 21st of 400 in the overall Per Capita Classic division, with 7.935 pounds of recycling per person.

This is equal to:

• 60 Metric Tons of CO2 Equivalent, or
• 12 cars off the road, or
• the energy consumption of five households

See all of the results at http://recyclemaniacs.org/scoreboard/current-results/competition-division.

For information about RecycleMania, contact Joni Wilson at jwilson@umw.edu.

Diane Moore, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University, will present “Religious Literacy and Democratic Citizenship in National and Global Contexts” on Wednesday, March 20. The lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in Lee Hall, Room 411 and is free and open to the public. Moore’s lecture is sponsored by the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, the Campus Academic Resources Committee and the Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion. For more information, please contact Emile Lester at (540) 654-1146.

On February 20-21, Associate Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti joined a workshop in London entitled “Iraqi Foreign Policy in a Changing Middle East.” Participants included over thirty area experts, party representatives, government officials, scholars, and journalists.  The closed workshop was sponsored jointly by the Middle East and North Africa Programme of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House and the U.S. Institute of Peace of Washington, D.C. Six sessions covered a range of topics, including Iraq’s relations with Syria, the Kurdish Regional Government, the oil sector, and the Gulf states, as well as Iraq’s future role in the region. Chatham House plans to publish a summary report of workshop proceedings within the next few weeks.