{"id":5364,"date":"2023-01-31T10:15:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/?p=5364"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:09:14","slug":"january-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/2023\/january-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        January 2023\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The Senior Management Committee met on January 26, 2023 for the review and approval of the following policies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/Equipment-Inventory-Policy-2.pdf\">Equipment Inventory Policy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This policy ensures proper stewardship of Carleton\u2019s funds and assets. This responsibility includes taking appropriate measures to safeguard assets and dispose of those assets at the end of their useful life in a safe and sustainable way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Updates to the existing policy include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Department responsibility to follow appropriate procedures and maintain audit records of the chain of custody for non-fixed equipment in the event of sale, transfer, donation or disposal.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/Procurement-Policy-3.pdf\">Procurement Policy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary purpose of the Procurement Policy is to ensure that the acquisition of goods and services is undertaken in an open, fair, transparent, efficient, ethical, and cost-effective manner while obtaining the best value for money for the University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key additions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Accessible Procurement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Giving thoughtful consideration to the Accessibility for Ontarians Act (AODA). Individuals participating in a university procurement or making a purchase on behalf of the university must give appropriate consideration in the evaluation process to those goods, services and vendors that reflect commitment to accessibility. <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Buying Organizations and Cooperative Procurement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Clarity and discretion around second-stage processes with group buying organizations where the value exceeds $100K; gap in previous version.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update to Delegation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Removal of delegation for Construction to align with the transition of construction procurement to Procurement Services (table included); and<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Split delegation of insurance and investment related procurement to the appropriate authorities because of establish of ORM<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Minor title updates<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Other changes include the addition of fair-trade language and clarity to competitive quote documentation requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/Information-Technology-IT-Security-Policy.pdf\">Information Technology (IT) Security Policy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Changes to dates and formatting.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/Password-Policy.pdf\">Password Policy for Information Systems<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Changes to dates and formatting.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senior Management Committee met on January 26, 2023 for the review and approval of the following policies: Equipment Inventory Policy This policy ensures proper stewardship of Carleton\u2019s funds and assets. This responsibility includes taking appropriate measures to safeguard assets and dispose of those assets at the end of their useful life in a safe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy-updates"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5372,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}