Return tagged and inventoried equipment to the vendor and remove it from your department's records. 

Transfer equipment ownership and/or responsibility to another non-profit research institution within the United States.

Transfer equipment from your department to another within the University and remove it from your department's records.  (You may give or sell it to the other department).  

Dispose of equipment, materials, and supplies, whether inventorial or not, through the established procedure facilitated by the Surplus Property Department. Equipment Inventory removes the record of equipment from the department's inventory. The terms disposal and surplus are often used interchangeably.

Equipment Disposal refers to both physically removing properties from a department and to the removing of the item from a department's active inventory, relieving the department of accountability for reporting and tracking. The terms disposal and surplus are often used interchangeably.

An asset that meets the definition of equipment but is too small or delicate to affix a tag to.  Common examples are art work, underwater equipment, software, or lenses.  "No Tag" assets are treated the same as regular assets, except for the following steps:

• "NT " for No Tag is entered into the "How Tagged" box of the Snapshot view in OASIS.

• "Other Location" field can be populated with more specific location information such as "Used with computer 1199887." Print the snapshot data of the OASIS entry for the asset.

Tagging and tracking non-inventorial assets (assets costing less thaN $5,000) is not mandatory. Some departments choose to tag non-inventorial equipment for internal purposes; for more information on tagging this type of asset, please see this page.

An identification marker (white tag) that is required to be affixed to all University inventorial and government or agency owned equipment that meets the equipment capitalization threshold and is required to be tracked and inventoried.

To be considered "used directly" in a manufacturing operation or research and development operation, the machinery and equipment must:

Equipment with a useful life of more than one year with ownership/title to the University of Washington.