Acquiring
New PC Software
MPS purchases, receives, and maintains
a license and registration file for all college-owned
microcomputer software.
Starting July 1, 2009, use the PC Software Internal Request Form to request software.
Send requests
to purchase microcomputer software to MPS. . Do not charge microcomputer software to your department's credit card and do not order through eVA. Call Nancy Stafford at 703-323-3294 if you have questions.
Free
Software - BE CAREFUL!
Send requests to review click-on licenses for free software to Nancy Stafford. Even free software may have license agreements which contain legal language which the College cannot agree to. Usually these are click-on agreements that require you to click Yes or No before you download the software. You are not authorized to click "YES" on a click-on agreement for software you are downloading to a college machine unless Nancy Stafford has reviewed the agreement and said it is acceptable.
To Purchase
Microcomputer Software:
- Print the PC Software Internal Request Form and fill it in .
- Include as much information
as possible. Indicate type of computer the software
will run on, new or duplicate copy, upgrade, site license
for laboratory, etc.
- Send requests for
microcomputer software to Nancy Stafford, Media Processing Services, AN, CT126. You may also fax the requests to 703-323-3831.
- Media Processing Services
- Eliminates duplicate purchases
(of software already owned) unless requestor checks the additional-copies box on the form. If you are not sure, check the College-owned software list.
- Orders, receives and ships
software and copies of registrations and licenses
to the requestor.
- Maintains a College microcomputer
software inventory list.
- Notifies departments when software
they own has been upgraded.
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