**HOW TO CARE FOR YOUR CREDIT CARD.**

Activate the card by calling the *Bank of America Government Card
Services Unit (GCSU) Customer Service Hotline*, at the number listed on
the sticker attached to your card or call **1-800-472-1424**.

Safeguard your credit card and documents that cite the card number. The
credit card has been issued with your name on it. **YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE
WHO CAN USE THE CARD**. ***No member*** ***of your staff, supervisor,
family or anyone else may use the card***. (**Example**: If you are a
Branch Head and have a credit card in your name, you should not give it
to your Secretary or someone else in your office to make the purchases
for you. They should have a card in their own name).

You have been delegated a **Single Purchase Limit (SPL)** and a **30-day
Limit**.

> The **SPL** is the dollar limit for an individual purchase. An
> individual purchase can be for multiple items, but the total amount
> cannot exceed your SPL. ***[Splitting a purchase into smaller dollar
> purchases to avoid exceeding your SPL or spreading the purchases out
> over a few days is prohibited, and violation of this could result in
> the loss and cancellation of your credit card.]{.underline}***
>
> The **30-day limit** is the dollar limit of purchases you can make in
> a calendar month.

**Purchase only *Allowable Commodities*.** The cardholder is personally
liable for ***unallowable* purchases.**

You **[must]{.underline}** comply with the Simplified Acquisition
Procedures and Regulations (FAR Part 13); the Simplified Acquisition
Procedures (NASA FAR Supplement Part 1813); the Required Sources of
Supplies and Services (FAR Part 8); and the Required Sources of Supplies
and Services (NASA FAR Supplement Part 1808). See "Additional Info" for
listing of required sources of supplies and services websites.

***Do not purchase supplies*** until you have determined that they are
**[not]{.underline}** ***immediately*** available in GSFC Stores
Stock\*. See Appendix C "How to Check Stores Stock." If supplies are in
Stores Stock, follow the usual requisition process. If the supplies are
not in Stores Stock, you are required to check the following websites
before you can go to another outside source: Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD)
at www.jwod.com *or GSA Advantage* at www.gsaadvantage.gov.

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\*The Javits-Wagner-O\'Day (JWOD) Act requires the Government to obtain
certain common-use supplies from JWOD suppliers. GSFC and its
Just-in-Time (JIT) office supply vendor stock these required supplies
and issue them when the same or similar items are ordered.

**Immediately report a lost or stolen card to:**

***Bank of America GCSU* -- Domestic: 1-800-472-1424;**

**Outside US: 1-757-441-4124 (Collect)**

**Greenbelt -- Dawn Murvin, 301-286-4915;**

**Wallops -- Diana Jester, 757-824-1290; Bankcard**

**Helpline, 301-286-9372**

Your Approving Official

*Bank of America* will cancel your old card, and you will be issued a
**[new]{.underline}** credit card and number. The Credit Card Program
Manager must be notified so that P-Card can be updated to enable payment
of charges against the new card number.

Notify your Credit Card Program Manager if you transfer within or leave
GSFC.