Assiut University
Purchasing Policy
Egypt launched in 2016 its first version of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development
commonly known as the “Egypt Vision 2030”. This vision was made as a cornerstone for broad
developmental processes to tackle the Egyptian’s grand challenges to secure a dignified and decent
life for the Egyptian people. The vision identified several strategic goals, among which were the
diversified and knowledge-based economy, and the governance and cooperation, which encompass
several main goals, such as administration sector reform, transparency, ant-corruption strategy, and
inclusive monetary system. In this context, Assiut University followed the “Egypt Vision 2030” and the
National Anti-corruption Legislation, and designed its Purchasing Policy as follows:
1- Purchasing national instruments instead of foreign imported instruments for sustainable
development and support to the national industry and economy.
2- Purchasing foreign imported instruments in case of having no national alternatives, but those
foreign instruments must incorporate high percentages of national added value to support
transferring high technologies to Egypt.
3- Purchasing national instruments and chemicals must abide to the Egyptian Environmental
Protection Law, where the use of the instruments and chemicals must help protect the
environment from air, land, and/or water pollutions.
4- Purchasing of national/international imported instruments must be energy-saving and
preferably those depend on electricity and/or renewable energy instead fossil fuel.
5- Purchasing of national/international imported instruments that depend on fossil fuel must follow
the Egyptian legislations of environmental protection, and most importantly produce low
carbon emission to help minimize the total amount of greenhouse gases, and thus reduce the
carbon footprint.
6- Purchasing of foods and/or domestic goods for practical teaching, student events, workshops,
conferences, etc.. is preferred to be directed to the Assiut University Food Production
Facilitates (Faculty of Agriculture and Faculty of Veterinary) and to local merchants as
alternatives to reduce energy consumption needed for goods/food transportation and thus
minimizes the carbon footprint.
7- Purchasing of goods and material for practical teaching, student events, workshops,
conferences, etc.. is preferred to be hand-made to reduce energy consumption and minimize
the carbon footprint.
8- Purchasing of foods for any university events is preferred to focus on vegetarian diets and to
minimize purchasing of meat and other dairy products to minimize emission of the greenhouse
gases (methane and carbon dioxides).
9- Purchasing of goods and office materials for administration work, teaching, and any university
event is preferred to be recyclable.
10- The university develop and maintain e-payment services, where all purchasing and payment
processes must be run via the university e-payment system.
11- Payment in cash is limited up to 500 Egyptian Pounds (LE) and any higher amount must be
paid via the e-payment services to minimize the use of cotton/linen and plastic-made bank
notes to help protect the environment.
12- Purchasing of biological and/or botanical materials for university teaching and/or research
purposes must follow the ethical rules and guides provided by the Assiut University
Research Ethics Central Committee (AUREC).
13- Payment of goods and instruments for university teaching and/or research purposes must be
checked by the General Administration for Internal Review and Governance to assure that
university specifications and purchasing rules are met.
14- Purchasing of similar goods and instruments for university teaching and/or research purposes
must be made via the bulk purchasing system of the university.
15- Purchasing of instruments for university teaching and/or research purposes must be
accompanied with a valid maintenance contract for sustainable use of these instruments on
the long run.
16- Person/Faculty staff/Student who is in charge of purchasing of any materials for the
university/faculty must adhere to Anticorruption-Rules, Code of Ethics for University
Staff, Code of Ethics for Public Sector Employee, and Code of Ethics for University Students.