To purchase equipment, always use a BFS requisition through Procurement Services, so that a Campus Buyer can issue a PO.

"Equipment" are all items meeting the following criteria, which must be tracked by the University's property and financial systems:
 

• are non-expendable
• stand alone
• have a normal useful life of one year or more
• qualify as tangible personal property with an acquisition cost of $5,000 or more (includes gifts and transfers of equipment at this value) 

For more information, see also Equipment Management (under the Property Management section of this website), which tracks campus inventorial equipment through the Berkeley Equipment Tracking System (BETS), an online, web-based campus application.