63G-6a-702.  Contracts awarded by request for proposals.

(1)  A procurement unit may award a contract for a procurement item by the request for proposals process, in accordance with rulemaking authority rules.

Terms Used In Utah Code 63G-6a-702

  • Procurement: means the acquisition of a procurement item through an expenditure of public funds, or an agreement to expend public funds, including an acquisition through a public-private partnership. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
  • Procurement item: means an item of personal property, a technology, a service, or a construction project. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
  • Request for proposals: means a document used to solicit proposals to provide a procurement item to a procurement unit, including all other documents that are attached to that document or incorporated in that document by reference. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
  • Request for proposals process: means the procurement process described in 7. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
  • Rulemaking authority: means :
(a) for a legislative procurement unit, the Legislative Management Committee;
(b) for a judicial procurement unit, the Judicial Council;
(c) 
(i) only to the extent of the procurement authority expressly granted to the procurement unit by statute:
(A) for the facilities division, the facilities division;
(B) for the Office of the Attorney General, the attorney general;
(C) for the Department of Transportation created in Section 72-1-201, the executive director of the Department of Transportation; and
(D) for any other executive branch department, division, office, or entity that has statutory procurement authority outside this chapter, the governing authority of the department, division, office, or entity; and
(ii) for each other executive branch procurement unit, the board;
(d) for a local government procurement unit:
(i) the governing body of the local government unit; or
(ii) an individual or body designated by the local government procurement unit;
(e) for a school district or a public school, the board, except to the extent of a school district's own nonadministrative rules that do not conflict with the provisions of this chapter;
(f) for a state institution of higher education, the Utah Board of Higher Education;
(g) for the State Board of Education or the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, the State Board of Education;
(h) for a public transit district, the chief executive of the public transit district;
(i) for a special district other than a public transit district or for a special service district, the board, except to the extent that the board of trustees of the special district or the governing body of the special service district makes its own rules:
(i) with respect to a subject addressed by board rules; or
(ii) that are in addition to board rules;
(j) for the Utah Educational Savings Plan, created in Section 53B-8a-103, the Utah Board of Higher Education;
(k) for the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, created in Section 53C-1-201, the School and Institutional Trust Lands Board of Trustees;
(l) for the School and Institutional Trust Fund Office, created in Section 53D-1-201, the School and Institutional Trust Fund Board of Trustees;
(m) for the Utah Communications Authority, established in Section 63H-7a-201, the Utah Communications Authority board, created in Section 63H-7a-203; or
(n) for any other procurement unit, the board. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
(2)  The procurement of architect-engineer services is governed by 15.

Amended by Chapter 257, 2020 General Session

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