Science Stores and Receiving

To order through Science Stores and SFU Procurement complete an online Purchase Requisition at fins.sfu.ca. If you have not previously completed an online purchase requisition, you may be able to find an experienced user within your department. If no one is available within your department, then Jocelyn Wan (Science Stores) is available to help first-time users with their initial requisition submission. 

• Purchase Requisition Guide
• Knowledge Centre (Step-by-Step Purchase Requistion training)

Purchase Requisition Tips (to aid Buyer in efficiently processing requisitions)

• Only include items from a single supplier on one requisition

Requisitions are being rolled into the new fiscal year and converted into Blanket PO's .

You must create a new Requisition to add funds for the new fiscal year (please reference your existing PO#).

Lisa Mulschlegel, Procurement Assistant, will be reviewing your spend for the last two years and will email you to advise on the value of the new Requisition.

To order gas cylinders, you need to setup a Linde online account by contacting:

bill.gordon@linde.com

It is managed by Blanket PO,  you must create a new Requisition to add funds (please note your existing PO# in the comments).

Linde gas cylinder orders are delivered on Mondays and Wednesdays.

For free waste disposal of solvents, chemicals, sharps or biohazardous materials, please use the online pickup request form. Labels must be picked up from Science Stores.

Waste Disposal pick up days on the Burnaby campus are Tuesday and Friday mornings. The cut-off time for requesting disposal is 3:00 pm Monday for Tuesday pick up and 3:00pm Thursday for Friday pick up. Surrey campus pickups are every second Thursday, and Vancouver campus pickups are as needed.

If you purchase lecture size toxic gas cylinders, please refer to the section on Gas cylinders for important information.

Please direct questions to EHS (labsafe@sfu.ca)

For free delivery of hazardous chemicals complete the eRequisition form.

Delivery dates are Tuesday and Friday mornings.

Tracking of ethyl alcohol use is required under the Excise Act, 2001

SFU receives a 99% remission of excise tax on the purchases of ethyl alcohol for scientific research and/or teaching purposes. As a registered user, SFU pays only a special duty rate of $0.12 per litre of ethyl alcohol. If discrepancies occur that cannot be accounted for, a penalty could be assessed at the full excise duty rate of $11.696 per litre.

It is the responsibility of each staff member or researcher that purchases ethyl alcohol to ensure that accurate records are returned to Science Stores to meet audit requirements for the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

Staff and researchers must follow the guidelines outlined below when purchasing, receiving and using ethyl alcohol.

• Complete the Science Stores Ethyl Alcohol Record Sheet at the Science Stores front counter when purchasing ethyl alcohol.
• Take a Laboratory Ethyl Alcohol (Ethanol) Record Sheet for each 4 L bottle of ethanol purchased.
• Complete the log of ethanol usage in the laboratory, and when a 4 L container is completely used, return the Record Sheet to Science Stores.
• Science Stores will maintain the records of usage on file for current plus six years.

Coats are available in a variety of materials and colours to suit your needs.

Users that are in the rental program will be able to draw from a float, or pool of lab coats, so that users can simply exchange their coat for another when they drop off their coat to stores to launder their current one. 

Coats that are lab owned, specialty coats, i.e. (coloured poly blend, Nomex, etc), can be dropped at Science Stores for washing, and then picked up after they have been washed and returned back by Cintas, usually the following week (no swapping is available as with the  rentals because we cannot  sustain a float supply).

For lab coat pricing, email David Lee (davidl@sfu.ca)