Expenditure Pre-Approval Process and TAMS
Effective November 1, 2010, Executive Vice President Brostrom increased the thresholds for travel, meetings, events, conferences and purchases to $1,500. Certain categories of fund that are already subject to external reporting requirements are also exempted. Fund category exemptions do not apply to personnel actions and consulting contracts.
Approval Authority for Expenditures
- Executive Vice President -Business Operations will pre-approve all travels, meetings, events, conferences, and purchases with costs of $1,500 or more.
- Executive Vice President - Business Operations will pre-approve all consulting contracts of $15,000 or more. Note: Fund category exemptions do not apply to consulting contracts.
- Executive Vice President - Business Operations will pre-approve all requests for new hires, reclassifications and/or equity increases. Note: Fund category exemptions do not apply to personnel actions.
Pre-approval requests must be submitted via the online Transaction Approval Management System (TAMS).
Access TAMS: http://www.ucop.edu/tams
Request TAMS access (subject to training requirement):
(510) 987-9186 or
(510) 987-9046
Note: If your department has not migrated to TAMS, please contact for the paper forms.