Purchasing Post
June 2015
Volume 8, Issue 5
Contract Updates
Announcements:
 June 4
Hug Your Cat Day
 June 6
Paws on Poyntz
 June 6
D-Day
 June 21
Father’s Day
 June 25-28
Country Stampede
 July 4
Independence Day
Kansas State University
Purchasing Office
21 Anderson Hall
785-532-6214
ksu.edu/purchasing
Laboratory Casework
The laboratory supplies & equipment contract, #40423 with Fisher Scientific, is now carrying
the Mott Manufacturing brand for laboratory casework, fume hoods, etc. For the Kansas area, the
Mott Manufacturing products are offered through their dealer, Wynn O. Jones. The local
representative for Wynn O. Jones is Jim McCall, located in Kansas City, Kansas. Email is
jmccall@wynnjones.com and phone is 913-322-4008.
Per our Fisher contract, these items will fall into the Commodity Discount Category of bucket
059 – 25% discount, and bucket 061 – 30% discount. Be advised that Fisher Hamilton and
Haldeman Homme are no longer part of the Fisher Scientific contract. As always, Lloyd Shetlar,
your Fisher Scientific Sales Representative, can help facilitate all transactions for this line and be
your first point of contact for any questions. Lloyd’s info is 316-204-8812 or
lloyd.shetlar@thermofisher.com.
Photo, Video, and Audio Technology Products
Announcing the establishment of a new contract. Effective immediately, departments may now
purchase photo, video, and audio products from B&H Photo Video & Pro Audio, contract
#CNR01341. The agreement is part of the E&I cooperative and is valid through 7/31/2018. There
is no minimum order, freight is free on shipments under 70 pounds.
To receive the special pricing from B&H, please contact Ariel, our B&H sales rep, at
ariels@bhphoto.com or 800-942-8214. Be sure to reference EI2013 on placing orders, which
identifies your department as Kansas State University and member of E&I.
DO NOT order through the B&H Photo website. Feel free to view products but don’t order
from there. By going through the general website, your department is not recognized as part of the
E&I/K-State contract and dept. will NOT receive the discounts.
ADOBE Software – take your membership to the next level with Adobe’s VIP select.
(from Kathy Leonard, IT Licensing Specialist)
A few of you have created your own college/department/unit VIP agreements for Creative
Cloud, and that’s fine, especially the way Adobe started things. In the ensuing 2+ years, things have
settled into a routine, of sorts. While it doesn’t appear there is enough use to merit moving to a
University site license for Creative Cloud, ITS can (and will!) administer the licenses procured
through us.
I can’t give you exact prices because the price depends on when you start your
subscription. Since our renewal date is August 7, the sooner-the-better AFTER the 7th of the month
gets you the most bang out of that first month’s $$.
Through August 7, 2016, we are at the Level 4 pricing due to a special we got in on when we
first placed our order, and that applies to both Named and Device licensing.
You are welcome to continue to set up your own VIP and fully administer it. Just know I can
only look up information associated with the VIP I set up. If you set it up I have no way of knowing
how many licenses or who you have assigned them to. I can’t remind you about renewals.
Pricing is “Transactional” and 50 is the smallest increment where there’s the first price
break. Unless you happen in on one of Adobe’s, a “new” VIP subscription license (Level I) is $378
(named)/$271 (device). That $378 comes out to $31.50/mo. Coming through the ITS VIP it will
cost you $20ish/month.
If you want to move your folks to the IT VIP group at your renewal time, that can happen –
just let me know so we can make that happen BEFORE YOUR EXPIRATION DATE. There
should be a small overlap (dates & $$), but we want to make sure your folks can keep working
uninterrupted.
SHI (contract #36093 ) and EnPointe (contract #36094) are to route requests for Creative
Cloud back through me so I can make sure folks know the implications of setting up their own VIP.
Questions? Contact Kathy Leonard at kantink@ksu.edu or (785) 532-4926.