THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
Systems and Procedures Department Telephone (919) 966-5866		The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB# 1160, 300 Carr Bldg. Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-1160

MEMORANDUM
 
 

TO:	Deans, Directors, Department Heads and FACS Coordinators
FROM:	Candace B. Davies Director for Systems and Procedures
DATE:	September 3, 1998
SUBJECT:	Carolina Computing Initiative Departmental Orders

Departments may now purchase personal computers and related items from the Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) IBM contract. Orders are accepted through the CCI on-line order system at http://www.unc.edu/cci/purch/index.html. This system provides a simplified ordering scheme, replacing the normal purchase requisition and payment process.

The CCI on-line order system is currently available to anyone within the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Each order is manually reviewed before the information is sent to IBM. Work is underway to use the Function Access Control System (FACS) to ensure automatically that orders are appropriately authorized. Anyone who currently has FACS access to enter online purchase requisitions will have access to the CCI on-line order system. Your FACS coordinator has a list of employees who have access to enter on-line purchase requisitions. If you would like to extend access to the CCI on-line order system to additional employees, please route the requests through your FACS coordinator. A list of the FACS coordinators for all departments can be found at http://www.ais.unc.edu/security/facslist.html

The CCI on-line order system will implement the FACS security September 21, 1998. This will give each department time to review their FACS access, and make any necessary changes.

Instructions for obtaining access to the CCI on-line order system are attached.

In order to access the CCI on-line order system an individual must have a FACS id, a FRS id, and access to either on-line purchase requisition entry or the CCI on-line system. Access to the on-line purchase requisition entry system automatically grants an employee access to the CCI on-line order system. You have the option of granting employees only CCI on-line order access.

The process for obtaining a FACS id, a FRS id, and access to the CCI-on-line system is as follows:

 
FACS id the FACS coordinator requests new FACS ids through the on-line "FACS id Request System".

FRS id - the FACS coordinator completes the "FRS Inquiry Access" portion of the "FRS On-Line Access Request Form" located at http://www.unc.edu/depts/finance/fs/frsform.htm

Access to both the CCI on-line order system and on-line purchase requisition entry the FACS coordinator completes the "Department On-Line Requisitioning" portion of the "FRS On- Line Request Form".

Access to the CCI on-line order system only the FACS coordinator requests CCI access in the "Additional Access Required" portion of the "FRS On-Line Request Form".