Professional development/Project management/Purchasing Guide

Spending your Project Budget

1. Before anything is bought by your team, a PM or TA must approve it.
2. When reviewing BOMs always check for:
   1. Complete list of parts, this should be representative of the designs and include fasteners and wire and everything else.
   2. Shipping and tax costs, duties can be expensive so try to buy things from Canada.
   3. If a cheaper or better alternative exists.
   4. If a cheaper supplier exists.
3. When looking for places to find parts, here is the order of places to look:
   1. In the Makerlab, there is an inventory (cost included in BOM).
   2. In the Makerstore (cost included in BOM).
   3. Online or local stores, some common places are below.

Online and Local Stores

General

• Amazon https://www.amazon.ca/
• Science store (local- in STEM!) https://science.uottawa.ca/en/faculty-services/store

Mechanical/hardware

• SDP/SI https://www.sdp-si.com/
• Spaenaur (Canada) https://spaenaur.com/
• McMaster-Carr (US) https://www.mcmaster.com/
• Hardware stores (local) home hardware, home depot, rona
• Metal Pros (local) http://www.metalpros.com/
• MetalMart (local) https://www.metalmart.ca/

Electrical/robotics

• Digikey https://www.digikey.ca/
• Robotshop https://www.robotshop.com/ca/
• Great Hobbies https://www.greathobbies.com/
• Sparkfun https://www.sparkfun.com/
• Active tech electronics (Merged with Gervais)
• Gervais electronics (local) http://www.gervaiselectronics.ca/
• A2D electronics (local) https://a2delectronics.ca/
• Electronics shop (local- in STEM!) https://science.uottawa.ca/en/faculty-services/electronics-shop (they don't have an inventory on the website but if you go see them they have things they can give you)