Purchasing Agent 2

Solicit bids/quotes from suppliers. Tabulate bids and evaluate prices/product to secure lowest price and most suitable product.

Recommend bid to supervisor for approval. Contact requestor to clarify information concerning items to be purchased. Communicate those needs to vendors.

Clarify discounts and transportation charges. Graduation from high school, or G.E.D., and six years of full-time work in the procurement of technical, standardized, expendable and non-expendable items;

OR

graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in business or public administration, accounting or economics and two years of the required experience;

OR

an equivalent combination of education and experience substituting one year of education (30 semester hours or one year) for each year of the required experience;

OR

employees with current continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes experience equal to eighteen months as a Purchasing Agent 1.

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