Purchases

In all cases below, no purchase can be done without the agreement of your N+1.

Material exchange

Le CNRS has set up an material exchange plateform in order to search for, sell, lend or donate second-handed equipment bewteen units and departments with a least some of their fundings coming from the CNRS.

Office supplies

All the office supplies must be ordered or bought at the shop at the entrance of the ICS, managed by Jean-Marc Chauvelot via the UGAP market.

You can find there office supplies (pens, notebooks, tape...) as well as a few tools for the lab (syringes, beakers, gloves, lab notebooks, goggles, labcoats...).
You have to give your name so that items can be charged to your team.

If one of the articles (office supply or small lab material) is not available, you just have to send an email to Jean-Marc with the UGAP reference.
To limit shipment costs, about an order per week is made or whenever enough material is ordered. It is therefore essential to order small material through him, and not to add them yourself to your UGAP orders. Otherwise, these small materials could be withdrawn from your orders.

Global market

For all products, you have the obligation to order via the CNRS market: UGAP. It contains a high number of reference with negotiated prices for the CNRS, both for equipment and devices.
If you cannot find your product and you therefore need to buy it somewhere else, you should send a request (screenshot with "0 result" or a declaration of honor) to justify your purchase.

To place an order, ask your N+1 about the internal functioning of your team.

The chemistry shop

The chemistry shop cannot be used for the purshase of lab consumable material or office supplies. It can only be used to buy chemicals.

You can find the catalog of the chemistry shop by clicking here.
On this page, you also find a link to a Seafile containing:

• The catalog
• The file to place your orders
• A user's note
• and other useful information

To place your order, the process is the following:

• Ask your N+1 the external account number of your team
• Place your order by following the instructions written in the guide, available in the SeaFile mentionned above
• If you ask for a delivery at the Institute: sign the purchase order and give it to Jean-Marc
  If you take your order directly there: keep the purchase order signed and stamped and give it to Jean-Marc as soon as possible.
• All delivery notes are then transmitted to Katia Bruzzone for payment to the provider

List of providers

Here is a non-exhaustive list of chemicals providers. Note that the lab has negotiated prices for some of them:

• Sigma-Aldrich: the institute has prices on some products, ask the responsible of order in your team to log in and access them.
• Alfa Aesar: the institute has -15%, ask the responsible of orders in your team to log in and access the prices.
• ABCR: the institute has special prices over 200 products, -5% reduction for the order and free shipment on all orders.
• Acros Organics
• Dutscher
• FischerScientific
• Fluorochem
• Iris Biotech
• TCI Europe
• ThermoFischer
• Merck
• ...

Software market

To acquire specific softwares, you should also follow the software market negotiated by the Unistra for the CNRS.
The process is the following:

• Ask your N+1
• Once validated, contact the owner of the market ( check trader depending on the software) and ask for a quote by specifying that you belong to the CNRS
• Ask then your N+1 to place your order or the person in charge of it in your team

You also have access, using your Unistra e-mail address to software's licences paied by the Unistra and which can be installed only on Unistra computers.