(A) As used in this section, “reverse auction” means a purchasing process in which offerors submit bids in competing to sell services or supplies in an open environment via the internet.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 125.072

  • Internet: means the international computer network of both federal and nonfederal interoperable packet switched data networks, including the graphical subnetwork known as the world wide web. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Purchase: means to buy, rent, lease, lease purchase, or otherwise acquire supplies or services. See Ohio Code 125.01
  • Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Services: means the furnishing of labor, time, or effort by a person, not involving the delivery of a specific end product other than a report which, if provided, is merely incidental to the required performance. See Ohio Code 125.01
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Supplies: means all property, including, but not limited to, equipment, materials, other tangible assets, and insurance, but excluding real property or an interest in real property. See Ohio Code 125.01

(B) Whenever the director of administrative services determines that the use of a reverse auction is advantageous to the state, the director, in accordance with rules the director shall adopt, may purchase services or supplies by reverse auction.

(C) The director, by rule, may authorize a state agency that is authorized to purchase services or supplies directly to purchase them by reverse auction in the same manner as this section and the rules adopted under this section authorize the director to do so.

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