A2OpenBook: Now With P-Card Use
The city of Ann Arbor’s A2OpenBook accounting now includes P-Card (purchase/procurement card) use. P-cards can be used by a limited number of city employees to make purchases for relatively small amounts of money – under $3,000.
Roughly 100 cards are in circulation. Individual cards can be tailored for daily or monthly limits or by type of merchant. For example, if an employee is issued a P-Card for some specific type of purchase related to their job, then other uses – for travel or food, or computer purchases – could be prohibited as part of the card’s configuration. [.pdf of city policy on P-Cards]
The P-Card data had previously been available online through the city’s DataCatalog in the form of very … [Full Story]