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19-11-252. Rules.
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19-11-252. Rules.
The State Procurement Director may promulgate reasonable rules pertaining to the sale or acquisition of any commodities, technical and general services, or professional and consultant services belonging to or produced by another public procurement unit or external procurement activity as authorized in §§ 19-11-206 and 19-11-249 — 19-11-258.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 19-11-252
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19-11-252. Rules.
The State Procurement Director may promulgate reasonable rules pertaining to the sale or acquisition of any commodities, technical and general services, or professional and consultant services belonging to or produced by another public procurement unit or external procurement activity as authorized in §§ 19-11-206 and 19-11-249 — 19-11-258.
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19-11-206. Definitions concerning intergovernmental relations.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Cooperative purchasing agreement” means an agreement entered into as the result of a procurement conducted by, or on behalf of, more than one (1) public procurement unit or by a public procurement unit with an external procurement activity;
(2)(A) “External procurement activity” means any buying organization not located in this state which, if located in this state, would qualify as a public procurement unit.
(B) An agency of the federal government is an external procurement activity;
(3) “Local public procurement unit” means:
(A) Any county, city, town, state agency, and any other subdivision of the state or public agency thereof;
(B) Any fire protection district;
(C) Any regional water distribution district;
(D) Any rural development authority;
(E) Any public authority;
(F) Any public educational, health, or other institution;
(G) Any nonprofit corporation during the time that it contracts with the Department of Human Services to provide services to individuals with developmental disabilities or for transportation services, so long as the contract exceeds seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) per year;
(H) Any nonprofit corporation providing fire protection services to a rural area or providing drinking water to the public in a rural area; and
(I) To the extent not prohibited by law, any other entity that expends public funds for the acquisition or leasing of commodities and services;
(4) “Public procurement unit” means either a local public procurement unit or a state public procurement unit; and
(5) “State public procurement unit” means the Office of State Procurement and any other procurement agency of this state.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 19-11-206
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19-11-249. Cooperative purchasing.
(a)(1) A public procurement unit may participate in, sponsor, conduct, or administer a cooperative purchasing agreement for the acquisition of commodities or services in accordance with an agreement entered into between the participants.
(2)(A) A cooperative purchasing agreement is limited to commodities and services for which the public procurement unit may realize savings or material economic value, or both.
(B)(i) For cooperative purchasing agreements entered into by a state agency, the State Procurement Director shall consider the economic justification for using a cooperative purchasing agreement when granting or withholding approval for the cooperative purchasing agreement.
(ii) The director shall adopt rules to create a review policy outlining how the economic justification required under this section may be demonstrated, including without limitation a comparison of:
(a) Current state contract pricing and the pricing under a cooperative purchasing agreement; or
(b) Information obtained from a request for information and pricing under a cooperative purchasing agreement.
(C) The director and the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration shall submit any request for the Office of State Procurement or the Department of Finance and Administration, respectively, to participate in a cooperative purchasing agreement to the Governor for approval.
(b)(1)(A) The director shall present an annual report of all purchases made under cooperative purchasing agreements by a state agency without an agency procurement official under this section to the Legislative Council or, if the General Assembly is in session, to the Joint Budget Committee.
(B) A state agency that has an agency procurement official shall presen
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 19-11-249
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 19-11-249. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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19-11-258. Contract controversies.
Under a cooperative purchasing agreement, controversies arising between an administering public procurement unit and its bidders, offerors, or contractors shall be resolved in accordance with §§ 19-11-244 — 19-11-248, which refer to legal and contractual remedies, where the administering public procurement unit is a state public procurement unit or otherwise subject to §§ 19-11-244 — 19-11-248.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 19-11-258
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 19-11-258. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.