{"id":5364,"date":"2023-01-31T10:15:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/?p=5364"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:09:14","slug":"january-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/2023\/january-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        January 2023\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The Senior Management Committee met on January 26, 2023 for the review and approval of the following policies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/Equipment-Inventory-Policy-2.pdf\">Equipment Inventory Policy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This policy ensures proper stewardship of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´\u2019s funds and assets. This responsibility includes taking appropriate measures to safeguard assets and dispose of those assets at the end of their useful life in a safe and sustainable way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Updates to the existing policy include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Department responsibility to follow appropriate procedures and maintain audit records of the chain of custody for non-fixed equipment in the event of sale, transfer, donation or disposal.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/Procurement-Policy-3.pdf\">Procurement Policy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary purpose of the Procurement Policy is to ensure that the acquisition of goods and services is undertaken in an open, fair, transparent, efficient, ethical, and cost-effective manner while obtaining the best value for money for the University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key additions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Accessible Procurement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Giving thoughtful consideration to the Accessibility for Ontarians Act (AODA). Individuals participating in a university procurement or making a purchase on behalf of the university must give appropriate consideration in the evaluation process to those goods, services and vendors that reflect commitment to accessibility. <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Buying Organizations and Cooperative Procurement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Clarity and discretion around second-stage processes with group buying organizations where the value exceeds $100K; gap in previous version.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update to Delegation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Removal of delegation for Construction to align with the transition of construction procurement to Procurement Services (table included); and<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Split delegation of insurance and investment related procurement to the appropriate authorities because of establish of ORM<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Minor title updates<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Other changes include the addition of fair-trade language and clarity to competitive quote documentation requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/Information-Technology-IT-Security-Policy.pdf\">Information Technology (IT) Security Policy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Changes to dates and formatting.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/Password-Policy.pdf\">Password Policy for Information Systems<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Changes to dates and formatting.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senior Management Committee met on January 26, 2023 for the review and approval of the following policies: Equipment Inventory Policy This policy ensures proper stewardship of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´\u2019s funds and assets. This responsibility includes taking appropriate measures to safeguard assets and dispose of those assets at the end of their useful life in a safe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy-updates"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5372,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}