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Emergency Orders

There may be times when you need to purchase a product or service or request a business agreement immediately due to an emergency situation.

The university defines an emergency as meeting one or more of the following conditions:

• Life threatening situations for human and/or animal life
• Catastrophic events such as, flood, fire, earthquake or other natural disasters that pose a threat to human and/or animal life, adversely affect the university mission, or threaten university property
• Critical equipment failure, either on or off campus, that seriously increases the risk exposure of the university or may cause an extraordinary impact on funding
• Organized labor strikes, of local, regional or national scope
• Weather conditions affecting agriculture, human and animal shelter, and construction
• Public safety incidents that seriously increase the risk exposure of the university or threaten life or property, such as riots, criminal acts, and terrorist actions

The following normally do not constitute an emergency:

• Incentives such as, sales, discounts, short term promotions, price/quote expiration, provided by vendors for the purpose of meeting vendor sales quotas
• Receipt of funding authorizing equipment and supply purchases
• Unsupported need
• Travel deadlines

If your situation qualifies as an emergency, you have the following options:

• For repairs up to your departmental delegation, you can use the Departmental Repair Order.
• For urgent supply orders up to your departmental delegation, you can use a Departmental Purchase Order document, Purchasing Card or UCD Buy.
• For repairs or purchases exceeding your departmental delegation, contact Purchasing at (530) 747-3850 in order to discuss available options.