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Committee accepts Division of Purchasing rules rewrite after detailed presentation and Q&A
Summary
The committee voted to accept the Division of Purchasing’s pending rules rewrite (docket as presented). Administrator Valerie Bollinger outlined removals, reorganizations, and clarifications; members questioned exemptions, bid openings, brand-name specifications and safeguards for negotiations.
Valerie Bollinger, Administrator of the Division of Purchasing in the Department of Administration, presented a comprehensive rewrite of the division’s purchasing rules and asked the committee to accept the pending docket.
"The legislature voted last year to reject several of the rules in IDAPA 30.85.01 in order to eliminate the invitation to negotiate or ITN process," Bollinger told the committee, adding the division removed the ITN process from rule and worked to align rules with statutory authority. She said the rewrite also reorganizes and clarifies language, removes unnecessary restatements of statute, and narrows certain exceptions.
Committee members asked detailed questions about multiple items. On exemptions from competition, Bollinger gave an example from the Department of Fish and Game: after wildfires, the agency may need to buy hay quickly so wildlife do not cross roadways, "primarily for human safety reasons," and in…
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