Purchasing Testing Page

1) For grad students and postdocs, orders placed through this form will automatically route to your PI for approval. Be sure to enter their email address correctly into the form so that approval is not delayed

2) The University highly discourages orders less than $2500 from non-Marketplace vendors. There is an option for price matching in Marketplace that should be utilized before using “cost” as justification for using a non-Marketplace vendor. Alternatively, you may contact the Marketplace vendor rep directly for a price match or to request specific items be added to their supply:

Current Marketplace Vendor List

3) For non-MarketPlace purchases, the PI will be responsible for verifying that every attempt was made to first obtain the items from MarketPlace.

4) The correct shipping address format for orders is: NC State University, Biomedical Engineering Dept, YOUR NAME, 1840 Entrepreneur Drive, Room 4130, EBIII, Raleigh NC 27695

Fabricated Equipment requires special circumstances for purchasing and accounting at NC State. To determine if your purchase request involves Fabricated Equipment, please review the Guidelines for Fabricated Equipment.

Non-research funds (such as startup, release time, discretionary, etc.) should be used for shipping labels.

Research (grant) funds should not be used on a regular basis for freight expenses. If using research funds, you will need a strong justification since this is not part of direct costs in a grant (audit concern).

All FedEx label requests need to be made 48 hours prior. Emergency requests will be acknowledged, if needed, but not on a regular basis.

If a new project is being requested to charge, that is not already in the FedEx profile, it will take 2-5 days for University approval before the project can be charged.