The Purchasing Services department consists of three full-time employees, and has many responsibilities.  The main responsibility is to the Project Investigators, staff, and vendors, to give the best quality of work in a timely and accurate fashion.

This department is responsible for the purchasing of supplies, materials, equipment, and contractual services. It is also responsible for payments to vendors, processing stipends, travel, maintenance of the Oracle supplier file, 1099 tax information, airfare reservations, and management of Research Foundation vendor checks.