Practical guides
The decisions to settle before equipment leaves the building, in the order they actually come up. The most useful page here if you're at the start.
Why two quotes for the same fleet differ by more than the price, and which line items to insist on before you can compare them at all.
Regulatory reference
The regulation pages have moved to their own section — disposal compliance, by regulation — because there are enough of them now to deserve one. They exist because the summaries elsewhere are frequently wrong, and because a claim you can't check is worth nothing. Each page cites the rule and links the source.
Revision 1 was withdrawn in September 2025. The three method definitions, what each defends against, whether a factory reset is ever enough, and why "NIST 800-88 certified" describes nothing that exists.
The landfill ban and its exclusions, the hazardous-waste determination that is yours to make, the state universal waste election, and the written disposal policy CRS 6-1-713 requires of you.
Where the duty sits between a district and its vendor, the provisions that bear on destruction, and what has to be in the contract because the regulation won't do it for you.
GSA screening, DLA Disposition Services, the exchange/sale authority, vendor take-back, and the SAM registration timing that catches firms out.
On the dates
Every regulatory page carries the date its content was last reviewed. That's there so you can judge how stale it might be rather than assuming it's current — and so we have to keep looking at them.
This is general information, not legal advice. What applies to you depends on your data, your contracts and your own policies. Why we put it that way
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