Procurement guidelines for personal protective equipment and protective supplies

All departmental requests for personal protective equipment, or PPE, and protective supplies including but not limited to masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes, sneeze guards, etc., must be requested through pperequests@auburn.edu.

Individual departmental purchases on p-card or other means will not be allowed. With the limited availability of PPE items, the centralized distribution will allow Auburn to help each department determine their specific needs and provide those items.

When making requests to pperequests@auburn.edu, include the department name, contact person, phone number, building location, purpose of the PPE and departmental fund, organization, account, program, activity and location, or FOPAL, to be charged. Each department will be billed for the items received through a direct charge by Facilities Management. When the order is ready for pick up, the contact person will be informed by Facilities. Facilities is fulfilling all orders and will contact the departmental contact when the order is ready for pickup.

If you purchase PPE items as part of your normal operations, continue to procure those items through your regular sources. If you have any issues with availability of the items, contact Missty Kennedy at kennem1@auburn.edu.

A PPE order form can be found by clicking on this link.