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Procurement Bid Threshold Increase

September 15, 2023
UCF Procurement Services is pleased to announce that the bid threshold for university purchases has been increased from $75,000 to $150,000. Important: It is best practice to seek competition for all purchases, regardless of dollar amount, because competition works!  The new competition thresholds are as follows: The updated Competition Requirements can be located on the Procurement Services website.…

What’s New in Workday: Workday System Updates are Now Available!

September 11, 2023
UCF’s second Workday system update of the year was completed on Saturday, September 9. All UCF employees (including faculty and staff) will notice feature updates to their Workday homepage, Workday search and My Tasks. Learn more information about campus community impacts at What’s New with Workday: System Release September 2023. UCF managers and supervisors will…

Renaming of Catalog Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) to Assistance Listing

September 8, 2023
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) is being replaced with Assistance Listing in Workday to correlate with the official update. All IDs and descriptions will remain the same. Awards will reflect the change immediately while reports that include this field will be updated shortly after. Learn more about this update at the General Services…

Workday System Update is Coming Soon!

September 8, 2023
Workday is scheduled to complete its biannual system update on Saturday, September 9.  Workday releases two system updates biannually in March and September. Updates may impact specific groups in UCF or the entire UCF campus community. What is a Workday System Release?System updates, also called system releases, install modifications within Workday to provide enhanced system…

Foundation Gift Budgets and Spending in Workday

August 3, 2023
The offices of Financial Affairs and the UCF Foundation are pleased to announce that 2024 foundation gift budgets, including July 2024 endowment payout were loaded into Workday effective last week. This means that colleges and units (including direct support organizations like Athletics) may once again directly charge gifts within the Workday system replacing the former…

How to View Expense Item Descriptions

July 26, 2023
Did you know that many expense items and spend categories have descriptions?  To view the spend category or expense item description while completing an expense report in Workday, click the Related Actions button (the three dots in the orange rectangle) next to the spend category/expense item name.  A pop-up will appear that includes the spend…