Equipment Acquisitions - Add Cost or Bundling Costs

Add Cost - Adding an inventorial asset or pending asset to an existing inventorial tagged asset.

Bundling - Combining certain items together as a system (one inventorial asset) as allowed by State and/or University policy.

Examples of items that CAN be add costed or bundled :

  • Racks and a temperature control system to a freezer (Systems Policy)
  • Winch that is permanently attached to a vehicle or boat
  • An expensive lens to a microscope (if it is likely to stay with the microscope for its entire life)
  • Rotor to centrifuge (most departments choose not to add cost/bundle since rotors can move around)
  • Display that is over $2,000 alone to a computer (sometimes better to track such an expensive display separately if it is expected to outlive the computer)
  • Laptops with a docking station, extra monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

Examples of items that CANNOT be add costed or bundled:

  • Laptops to anything that is not part of the computer system itself.  For example, bundling a laptop to a microscope system or add costing a laptop to a computer cluster. 
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