{"id":12,"date":"2019-11-07T18:28:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/offices-services\/procurement-services\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2021-04-08T16:09:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T16:09:57","slug":"contract-review-approval","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/offices-services\/procurement-services\/contract-review-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract Review &#038; Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All university contracts should be reviewed and executed in accordance with Policy 370.5 Contract Approval and Signature Authority.<\/p>\n<p>All university employees should ensure that the University does not knowingly enter into contracts that present a conflict of interest.\u00a0 The university will not recognize any contract as binding unless it has been executed by an authorized University official.<\/p>\n<p>Except as noted below, all university contracts should be reviewed and approved according to the following thresholds:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contracts valued at $25,000 or less<\/strong><br \/>\nReviewed by the Director of Procurement<br \/>\nSigned by a member of the President\u2019s Cabinet<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contracts exceeding $25,000<\/strong><br \/>\nReviewed by the Director of Procurement<br \/>\nSigned by VP\u00a0Finance &amp; Administration<\/p>\n<p>Exceptions to the review and approval thresholds:<\/p>\n<p><strong>All lease agreements<\/strong><br \/>\nReviewed by Director of Procurement<br \/>\nSigned by VP\u00a0Finance &amp; Administration<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technology related contracts<\/strong><br \/>\nReviewed by Director of Procurement<br \/>\nReviewed and signed by the Chief Information Officer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Entertainment contracts<\/strong><br \/>\nReviewed and signed by the individual in charge of the hosting department, i.e. Executive Director of Conference &amp; Event Services, or Director of University Center<\/p>\n<p><strong>Real estate contracts (lease, rental or\u00a0purchase)<\/strong><br \/>\nReviewed by the University\u2019s attorney<br \/>\nSigned by VP Finance &amp; Administration<\/p>\n<p><strong>Construction and architectural contracts<\/strong><br \/>\nReviewed by Assistant VP for Facilities Services<br \/>\nSigned by VP\u00a0Finance &amp; Administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All university contracts should be reviewed and executed in accordance with Policy 370.5 Contract Approval and Signature Authority. All university employees should ensure that the University does not knowingly enter into contracts that present a conflict of interest.\u00a0 The university will not recognize any contract as binding unless it has been executed by an authorized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/offices-services\/procurement-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/offices-services\/procurement-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/offices-services\/procurement-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/offices-services\/procurement-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/offices-services\/procurement-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/offices-services\/procurement-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/offices-services\/procurement-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}