| | So - people on Facebook are looking for a story - I said the other day that I was laughing about having tried to spend 20,000 USD on bedsheets. It's not a long story, but here it is:
For a little background, I am working on a project that has been behind on spending and getting stuff done in the hospital. So we've been working like crazy to get stuff done before the end of the budget cycle. Anyway, our hospital matron and I made a big order of all the cloth items we want to have in the hospital - bedsheets, pillowcases, uniforms for the staff. We were told it would be cheaper/easier to get things that go together if we just buy the cloth and get it sewn (true, especially since we have an awesome tailor here in Greenville who sewed all the curtains for the hospital in a day and a half).
Anyway, we just calculated how much of the various colors of cloth we needed, and sent the order to Monrovia. Kou went with the procurement person to look at varieties of cloth to make sure they were getting what we wanted. The next step in the system is that the procurement person puts the prices from three different vendors into an analysis sheet so that we can choose the most appropriate one based on the budget. So that's what she did and emailed it for budget approval to our grant manager.
Our grant manager happened to be here this week; I walked into the office the other day and she looked up from her computer with a very serious look on her face and said, "Naomi, I'm sorry to tell you, but you guys really can't spend $20,000 on bedsheets!" Yep, that was the price quote. We couldn't quite believe it ourselves! Not egyptian cotton, just plain old cloth! Anyway, we reduced our order greatly... every bed can have a sheet, but maybe not three. ;)
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| | Posted 3/14/2008 1:54 PM - 42 views - 0 comments
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