Terms Used In Tennessee Code 12-3-801

  • Central procurement office: means the government agency established in §. See Tennessee Code 12-3-201
  • Goods: means all personal property, including, but not limited to, supplies, equipment, materials, printing, and insurance. See Tennessee Code 12-3-201
  • Procurement: means buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise acquiring of any goods or services. See Tennessee Code 12-3-201
  • Procurement commission: means the state procurement commission, as established in §. See Tennessee Code 12-3-201
  • Proprietary: means a good or service that is used, produced, or marketed under exclusive legal right of the inventor, maker or service provider that is protected under trade secret, patent, trademark, or copyright law. See Tennessee Code 12-3-201
  • Services: means all services and agreements obligating the state, except services for highway and road improvements governed by title 54 and design and construction services governed by title 4, chapter 15. See Tennessee Code 12-3-201
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105

Whenever possible, all procurement specifications and scopes of work for goods and services to be purchased by the central procurement office or state agencies shall be worded or designed to permit open and competitive soliciting for the supplying of the goods or services to which they apply and all proprietary specifications and scopes of work shall be developed in accordance with rules of the central procurement office approved by the procurement commission.