Terms Used In Tennessee Code 4-39-103

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • State governmental entity: means a state agency, department, board, or commission, or a public corporation or quasi-public instrumentality that performs essential public functions entrusted to it by the state. See Tennessee Code 4-39-101
  • Vendor: means a person or entity that provides or proposes to provide goods or services to the state governmental entity pursuant to a major procurement contract, but does not include an employee of the state governmental entity, retailer or a state governmental entity. See Tennessee Code 4-39-101

If any portion of the cost of a vendor‘s major procurement contract with a state governmental entity is subcontracted, the vendor shall include in the contract with the subcontractor a provision that the subcontractor shall remit sales and use taxes on taxable sales of goods or services made by the subcontractor.