House Study Bill 242



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT BILL
                                            BY CHAIRPERSON ALONS)


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to electronic notices of bidding opportunities
  2    for state purchases and of any extension or renewal of
  3    existing contracts.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 2893HC 81
  6 jr/cf/24

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 8A.311, subsection 1, Code 2005, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  a.  All equipment, supplies, or services procured by
  1  4 the department shall be purchased by a competitive bidding
  1  5 procedure as established by rule.  However, the director may
  1  6 exempt by rule purchases of noncompetitive items and purchases
  1  7 in lots or quantities too small to be effectively purchased by
  1  8 competitive bidding.  Preference shall be given to purchasing
  1  9 Iowa products and purchases from Iowa=based businesses if the
  1 10 Iowa=based business bids submitted are comparable in price to
  1 11 bids submitted by out=of=state businesses and otherwise meet
  1 12 the required specifications.  If the laws of another state
  1 13 mandate a percentage preference for businesses or products
  1 14 from that state and the effect of the preference is that bids
  1 15 of Iowa businesses or products that are otherwise low and
  1 16 responsive are not selected in the other state, the same
  1 17 percentage preference shall be applied to Iowa businesses and
  1 18 products when businesses or products from that other state are
  1 19 bid to supply Iowa requirements.
  1 20    b.  The department and each state agency shall provide
  1 21 notice in an electronic format available to the public of
  1 22 every competitive bidding opportunity and notice of every
  1 23 extension or renewal of an existing contract offered by the
  1 24 department or the state agency.  The department may establish
  1 25 by rule requirements relating to the electronic notices.  The
  1 26 electronic notice requirement does not apply to architectural
  1 27 and engineering services procured under subsection 3,
  1 28 paragraph "b".
  1 29                           EXPLANATION
  1 30    This bill requires the department of administrative
  1 31 services to make all competitive bidding opportunities and
  1 32 notices of extensions or renewals of existing contracts, from
  1 33 all state executive branch agencies, available to the public
  1 34 in an electronic format.  The notice requirement does not
  1 35 apply to architectural and engineering services procured using
  2  1 the procedures set out in Code section 8A.311, subsection 3,
  2  2 paragraph "b".
  2  3 LSB 2893HC 81
  2  4 jr:rj/cf/24