Part I: Creating a Blueprint
Getting Started

This section will help you design a blueprint, or basic plan, for your purchase charge card.

You have been selected to receive a purchase charge card. The agency/organization program coordinator (A/OPC) for your organization will help you get started. The A/OPC will set up your account with the purchase charge card contractor; also known as the card-issuing bank.

Your current purchase charge card contractor will accept account set-up forms from your A/OPC via paper, electronic access systems, and facsimiles. Account set-up can be done relatively quickly (usually within 10 working days from the time the account set-up forms are submitted). Emergency processing can occur within 24 hours and you should be sent a purchase charge card within 48 hours of receipt of a written request.

Your purchase charge card is issued to you for official government business only. The purchase charge card can NEVER be used for personal reasons. Your name is imprinted on the card. Only you are authorized to use the card. Do not lend it to anyone. No member of your family or your staff, including your supervisor, may use your purchase charge card. Safeguard your purchase charge card number as well as the purchase charge card itself.