📦 Lab Orders¶

Designated members of the Kao Lab can place orders on items required by the lab including replacement items and new purchases. The orders are filled out in a template form that needs to be emailed to the Biology purchasing department (can also include Tim and/or Alanna) along with cc'ing Albert and other members (if required).

The Biology purchasing department has provided us with a tentative list of vendors that are approved by the university based on tax exemption rules. The list of vendors that the Kao Lab has had transactions with can be found here.

Oftentimes, an item can be provided by a vendor not listed in the list. In such cases, one can write to the Biology Purchasing department to check if they can start the process of including the vendor in the university vendor list. This might take some time and if you end up going down this way, ensure you have sufficient buffer time and that the order is not urgently required.

The template for placing orders can be found here.

Once an order form has been created it has to be uploaded to the lab shared drive at this location. Apart from this, the lab also enters details about orders in the Kao Lab Order Sheet that includes basic information like past orders, price, vendor details, link to item etc.