Actions To Date
All purchase orders issued since January 1998 have included a Year 2000 statement, where applicable, such as for equipment purchases.

Future Actions

• The Campus Vendors Subcommittee has evaluated the total monthly expenditure of campus funds which use purchase orders. The subcommittee found that approximately sixty percent (60 %) of all expenditures were done on Blanket Purchase Orders.

• As part of the University's conversion to the Berkeley Financial System (BFS), all Blanket Purchase Orders will be reissued in July 1999. This affords Purchasing and Business Contracts the opportunity to include a Y2K clause in all Blanket Purchase Orders and to discuss each vendor's Y2K status during the negotiations for the renewal of these agreements.

• Procurement and Business Contracts will contact foreign vendors of goods and services, where deemed necessary, to ascertain their Y2K compliance status.

• The subcommittee will be evaluating a cross section of suppliers of goods and services to obtain information on the status of their Y2K compliance. The findings from these contacts will determine what further actions, if any, need to be taken with these vendors.