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Water Service blanket purchase order information for FY24 (July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024) is now available.

Annual office water service purchase orders to Magnetic Springs (5 Gallon water service and water filtration units) must be placed outside Buckeye Buy and must be a single-line blanket type purchase order. Please do not create a create a separate line to contain the $0.00 charge for the 5 gallon water dispenser.

For FY24 the pricing will be as follows:

Office Water Service: 5 Gallon Pricing:

A Catering Service line has been added to most of the drop-off service catalogs in the Catering Marketplace. This will allow users to enter a one-line order for event food, beverages, disposables, etc. as quoted by the supplier. Rooster’s, Chick Fil-A, and Mazah Mediterranean Eatery catalogs do not include this line yet but may in the coming days.

Contact The Marketplace Team at BF-Marketplace@osu.edu with questions about the Catering Marketplace.

Encumbrances for blanket purchase orders associated with fiscal year 2024 will first post to fiscal year 2023 until a manual job is run at month-end to move the encumbrance into fiscal year 2024. The process will look for any blanket purchase orders created after 4/17/23. It is also important to review the Creating a Blanket Purchase Order job aid in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC).

In order to continue to improve the end user experience, the “Positions for Planning" report now contains the columns listed below.

• Expenditure Treatment 
• Prorated Annual Salary for Position

An enhancement has been added to the "OSU - Find Assets" report. The output of this report now displays the primary work email address for the Asset Coordinator listed for the asset. 

The Travel Office is offering two open working sessions to assist with Year-End responsibilities to ensure Expense Reports are completed and Spend Authorizations are cancelled and/or closed by the end of the Fiscal Year (June 30, 2023). Check out the full Business and Finance Travel post for more details and links for joining each session.

The PCard Office is offering two open working sessions to assist with year-end responsibilities to ensure PCard transactions are processed with an approved Expense Report by the end of the fiscal year (June 30, 2023). Check out the full Business and Finance PCard post for more details and links for joining each session.

One of the methods used by the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) to safeguard Ohio State’s restricted data (e.g. student, alumni, faculty and staff information, patient medical records, research data, etc.) is the annual review of user access for the university Workday Financials, Human Resources, Medical Center Financials, and Student Information Systems (SIS).