Updated OIT Approval Process for Technology Purchases

As a reminder, if you have technology or software that you would like to purchase, you must first obtain approval from OIT. Beginning on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, this approval process will be moving from Qualtrics to the new Technology Help Center. This change allows for a much simpler request form and will enable you to see where your request is in the approval process at any point in time by viewing your active tickets.  If you have questions about the upcoming change, please contact the IT Service Desk via the Technology Help Center. 

The second step of the process is to seek approval from Purchasing for any terms of use or contract/agreement that may need to be accepted before the purchase of software can be made. You can do that by submitting a request to financecustomercare@ohio.edu and that will be routed to our contracts staff for review. As long as the contract terms are approved by Purchasing, you can move forward with the purchase with both OIT and Purchasing approval of the software.

If you are purchasing software on a university credit card, policy no longer requires you to receive an exception to purchase via a credit card as long as OIT and Purchasing Contracts has approved it in the steps outlines above. Just be sure to attach the approval from both offices to your Concur transaction to document that you had approval to move forward with the purchase.

For questions related to the software purchase contracts please contact financecustomercare@ohio.edu.