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Committee approves comprehensive rewrite of state purchasing rules; ITN process removed
Summary
The House State Affairs Committee approved Docket 808012401, a comprehensive rewrite of the Division of Purchasing rules that removes the invitation-to-negotiate (ITN) process, aligns rules to statute and clarifies procurement procedures including exemptions, bid openings and brand-name specifications.
Valerie Bollinger, Administrator of the Division of Purchasing in the Department of Administration, told the House State Affairs Committee the division presented pending rules in Docket 808012401, "which is a rewrite of the chapter governing purchasing for the state."
Bollinger said the division revised the rules to reflect the legislature's prior rejection of provisions that authorized an invitation-to-negotiate or ITN process. "When we began our review [we] remove[d] the ITN process from rule as intended by the legislature," she told the committee, and the rewrite also sought to align rules with statutory authority and to streamline and clarify language. The…
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