Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 63G > Chapter 6a > Part 1 - General Procurement Provisions

• Approved vendor: means a person who has been approved for inclusion on an approved vendor list through the approved vendor list process. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
• Approved vendor list: means a list of approved vendors established under Section 63G-6a-507. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
• Approved vendor list process: means the procurement process described in Section 63G-6a-507. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
• Bidder: means a person who submits a bid or price quote in response to an invitation for bids. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
• Bidding process: means the procurement process described in 6. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
• Board: means the Utah State Procurement Policy Board, created in Section 63G-6a-202. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
• Chief procurement officer: means the individual appointed under Section 63A-2-102. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
• City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Conducting procurement unit: means a procurement unit that conducts all aspects of a procurement:

  (a)	except: (i)  reviewing a solicitation to verify that it is in proper form; and (ii)  causing the publication of a notice of a solicitation; and

  (b)

  including: (i)  preparing any solicitation document; (ii)  appointing an evaluation committee; (iii)  conducting the evaluation process, except the process relating to scores calculated for costs of proposals; (iv)  selecting and recommending the person to be awarded a contract; (v)  negotiating the terms and conditions of a contract, subject to the issuing procurement unit's approval; and (vi)  contract administration. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Conservation district: means the same as that term is defined in Section 17D-3-102. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Contract: means an agreement for a procurement. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Contractor: means a person who is awarded a contract with a procurement unit. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Cooperative purchasing organization: means an organization, association, or alliance of purchasers established to combine purchasing power in order to obtain the best value for the purchasers by engaging in procurements in accordance with Section 63G-6a-2105. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name. Days: means calendar days, unless expressly provided otherwise. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Design professional: means : (a)  an individual licensed as an architect under Title 58, Chapter 3a, Architects Licensing Act; (b)  an individual licensed as a professional engineer or professional land surveyor under Title 58, Chapter 22, Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors Licensing Act; or (c)  an individual certified as a commercial interior designer under Title 58, Chapter 86, State Certification of Commercial Interior Designers Act. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Design professional procurement process: means the procurement process described in 15. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Design professional services: means : (a)  professional services within the scope of the practice of architecture as defined in Section 58-3a-102; (b)  professional engineering as defined in Section 58-22-102; (c)  master planning and programming services; or (d)  services within the scope of the practice of commercial interior design, as defined in Section 58-86-102. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Division: means the Division of Purchasing and General Services, created in Section 63A-2-101. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Educational procurement unit: means : (a)  a school district; (b)  a public school, including a local school board or a charter school; (c)  the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind; (d)  the Utah Education and Telehealth Network; (e)  an institution of higher education of the state described in Section 53B-1-102; or (f)  the State Board of Education. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts Executive branch procurement unit: means a department, division, office, bureau, agency, or other organization within the state executive branch. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Facilities division: means the Division of Facilities Construction and Management, created in Section 63A-5b-301. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006. Fixed price contract: means a contract that provides a price, for each procurement item obtained under the contract, that is not subject to adjustment except to the extent that: (a)  the contract provides, under circumstances specified in the contract, for an adjustment in price that is not based on cost to the contractor; or (b)  an adjustment is required by law. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances: You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change. The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time). Grant: means an expenditure of public funds or other assistance, or an agreement to expend public funds or other assistance, for a public purpose authorized by law, without acquiring a procurement item in exchange. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Highway: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Independent procurement unit: means : (a)  (i)  a legislative procurement unit; (ii)  a judicial branch procurement unit; (iii)  an educational procurement unit; (iv)  a local government procurement unit; (v)  a conservation district; (vi)  a local building authority; (vii)  a special district; (viii)  a public corporation; (ix)  a special service district; or (x)  the Utah Communications Authority, established in Section 63H-7a-201; (b)  the facilities division, but only to the extent of the procurement authority provided under Title 63A, Chapter 5b, Administration of State Facilities; (c)  the attorney general, but only to the extent of the procurement authority provided under Title 67, Chapter 5, Attorney General; (d)  the Department of Transportation, but only to the extent of the procurement authority provided under Title 72, Transportation Code; or (e)  any other executive branch department, division, office, or entity that has statutory procurement authority outside this chapter, but only to the extent of that statutory procurement authority. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Issuing procurement unit: means a procurement unit that: (a)  reviews a solicitation to verify that it is in proper form; (b)  causes the notice of a solicitation to be published; and (c)  negotiates and approves the terms and conditions of a contract. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Judicial procurement unit: means : (a)  the Utah Supreme Court; (b)  the Utah Court of Appeals; (c)  the Judicial Council; (d)  a state judicial district; or (e)  an office, committee, subcommittee, or other organization within the state judicial branch. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC Legislative procurement unit: means : (a)  the Legislature; (b)  the Senate; (c)  the House of Representatives; (d)  a staff office of the Legislature, the Senate, or the House of Representatives; or (e)  a committee, subcommittee, commission, or other organization: (i)  within the state legislative branch; or (ii)  (A)  that is created by statute to advise or make recommendations to the Legislature; (B)  the membership of which includes legislators; and (C)  for which the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel provides staff support. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt. Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants. Local building authority: means the same as that term is defined in Section 17D-2-102. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Local government procurement unit: means : (a)  a county, municipality, or project entity, and each office of the county, municipality, or project entity, unless: (i)  the county or municipality adopts a procurement code by ordinance; or (ii)  the project entity adopts a procurement code through the process described in Section 11-13-316; (b)  (i)  a county or municipality that has adopted this entire chapter by ordinance, and each office or agency of that county or municipality; and (ii)  a project entity that has adopted this entire chapter through the process described in Subsection 11-13-316; or (c)  a county, municipality, or project entity, and each office of the county, municipality, or project entity that has adopted a portion of this chapter to the extent that: (i)  a term in the ordinance is used in the adopted chapter; or (ii)  a term in the ordinance is used in the language a project entity adopts in its procurement code through the process described in Section 11-13-316. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Multiple award contracts: means the award of a contract for an indefinite quantity of a procurement item to more than one person. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Multiyear contract: means a contract that extends beyond a one-year period, including a contract that permits renewal of the contract, without competition, beyond the first year of the contract. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Municipality: means a city, town, or metro township. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Nonadopting local government procurement unit: means : (a)  a county or municipality that has not adopted 16, 17, 18, and 19; and (b)  each office or agency of a county or municipality described in Subsection (50)(a). See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. Offeror: means a person who submits a proposal in response to a request for proposals. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program. Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses. Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Personal property: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Personal property: All property that is not real property. Preferred bidder: means a bidder that is entitled to receive a reciprocal preference under the requirements of this chapter. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Procure: means to acquire a procurement item through a procurement. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 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 Procurement official: means : (a)  for a procurement unit other than an independent procurement unit, the chief procurement officer; (b)  for a legislative procurement unit, the individual, individuals, or body designated in a policy adopted by the Legislative Management Committee; (c)  for a judicial procurement unit, the Judicial Council or an individual or body designated by the Judicial Council by rule; (d)  for a local government procurement unit: (i)  the legislative body of the local government procurement unit; or (ii)  an individual or body designated by the local government procurement unit; (e)  for a special district, the board of trustees of the special district or the board of trustees' designee; (f)  for a special service district, the governing body of the special service district or the governing body's designee; (g)  for a local building authority, the board of directors of the local building authority or the board of directors' designee; (h)  for a conservation district, the board of supervisors of the conservation district or the board of supervisors' designee; (i)  for a public corporation, the board of directors of the public corporation or the board of directors' designee; (j)  for a school district or any school or entity within a school district, the board of the school district or the board's designee; (k)  for a charter school, the individual or body with executive authority over the charter school or the designee of the individual or body; (l)  for an institution of higher education described in Section 53B-2-101, the president of the institution of higher education or the president's designee; (m)  for the State Board of Education, the State Board of Education or the State Board of Education's designee; (n)  for the Utah Board of Higher Education, the Commissioner of Higher Education or the designee of the Commissioner of Higher Education; (o)  for the Utah Communications Authority, established in Section 63H-7a-201, the executive director of the Utah Communications Authority or the executive director's designee; or (p)  (i)  for the facilities division, and only to the extent of procurement activities of the facilities division as an independent procurement unit under the procurement authority provided under Title 63A, Chapter 5b, Administration of State Facilities, the director of the facilities division or the director's designee; (ii)  for the attorney general, and only to the extent of procurement activities of the attorney general as an independent procurement unit under the procurement authority provided under Title 67, Chapter 5, Attorney General, the attorney general or the attorney general's designee; (iii)  for the Department of Transportation created in Section 72-1-201, and only to the extent of procurement activities of the Department of Transportation as an independent procurement unit under the procurement authority provided under Title 72, Transportation Code, the executive director of the Department of Transportation or the executive director's designee; or (iv)  for any other executive branch department, division, office, or entity that has statutory procurement authority outside this chapter, and only to the extent of the procurement activities of the department, division, office, or entity as an independent procurement unit under the procurement authority provided outside this chapter for the department, division, office, or entity, the chief executive officer of the department, division, office, or entity or the chief executive officer's designee. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Professional service: means labor, effort, or work that requires specialized knowledge, expertise, and discretion, including labor, effort, or work in the field of: (a)  accounting; (b)  administrative law judge service; (c)  architecture; (d)  construction design and management; (e)  engineering; (f)  financial services; (g)  information technology; (h)  the law; (i)  medicine; (j)  psychiatry; or (k)  underwriting. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Project entity: means the same as that term is defined in Section 11-13-103. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Protest officer: means : (a)  for the division or an independent procurement unit: (i)  the procurement official; (ii)  the procurement official's designee who is an employee of the procurement unit; or (iii)  a person designated by rule made by the rulemaking authority; or (b)  for a procurement unit other than an independent procurement unit, the chief procurement officer or the chief procurement officer's designee who is an employee of the division . See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Public corporation: means the same as that term is defined in Section 63E-1-102. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Public entity: means the state or any other government entity within the state that expends public funds. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Public facility: means a building, structure, infrastructure, improvement, or other facility of a public entity. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Public funds: means money, regardless of its source, including from the federal government, that is owned or held by a procurement unit. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Public transit district: means a public transit district organized under 8. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Public-private partnership: means an arrangement or agreement, occurring on or after January 1, 2017, between a procurement unit and one or more contractors to provide for a public need through the development or operation of a project in which the contractor or contractors share with the procurement unit the responsibility or risk of developing, owning, maintaining, financing, or operating the project. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Qualified vendor: means a vendor who: (a)  is responsible; and (b)  submits a responsive statement of qualifications under Section 63G-6a-410 that meets the minimum mandatory requirements, evaluation criteria, and any applicable score thresholds set forth in the request for statement of qualifications. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Real property: means land and any building, fixture, improvement, appurtenance, structure, or other development that is permanently affixed to land. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Request for information: means a nonbinding process through which a procurement unit requests information relating to a procurement item. 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 Request for statement of qualifications: means a document used to solicit information about the qualifications of a person interested in responding to a potential procurement, including all other documents attached to that document or incorporated in that document by reference. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Requirements contract: means a contract: (a)  under which a contractor agrees to provide a procurement unit's entire requirements for certain procurement items at prices specified in the contract during the contract period; and (b)  that: (i)  does not require a minimum purchase amount; or (ii)  provides a maximum purchase limit. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Responsible: means being capable, in all respects, of: (a)  meeting all the requirements of a solicitation; and (b)  fully performing all the requirements of the contract resulting from the solicitation, including being financially solvent with sufficient financial resources to perform the contract. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Responsive: means conforming in all material respects to the requirements of a solicitation. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Rule: includes a policy or regulation adopted by the rulemaking authority, if adopting a policy or regulation is the method the rulemaking authority uses to adopt provisions that govern the applicable procurement unit. 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 Signature: includes a name, mark, or sign written with the intent to authenticate an instrument or writing. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Small purchase process: means the procurement process described in Section 63G-6a-506. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Sole source contract: means a contract resulting from a sole source procurement. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Sole source procurement: means a procurement without competition pursuant to a determination under Subsection 63G-6a-802(1)(a) that there is only one source for the procurement item. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Solicitation: means an invitation for bids, request for proposals, or request for statement of qualifications. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Solicitation response: means : (a)  a bid submitted in response to an invitation for bids; (b)  a proposal submitted in response to a request for proposals; or (c)  a statement of qualifications submitted in response to a request for statement of qualifications. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Special district: means the same as that term is defined in Section 17B-1-102. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Special service district: means the same as that term is defined in Section 17D-1-102. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Specification: means any description of the physical or functional characteristics or of the nature of a procurement item included in an invitation for bids or a request for proposals, or otherwise specified or agreed to by a procurement unit, including a description of: (a)  a requirement for inspecting or testing a procurement item; or (b)  preparing a procurement item for delivery. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Standard procurement process: means : (a)  the bidding process; (b)  the request for proposals process; (c)  the approved vendor list process; (d)  the small purchase process; or (e)  the design professional procurement process. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 State cooperative contract: means a contract awarded by the division for and in behalf of all public entities. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Statement of qualifications: means a written statement submitted to a procurement unit in response to a request for statement of qualifications. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Statute: A law passed by a legislature. Technology: means the same as "information technology" as defined in Section 63A-16-102. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Tie bid: means that the lowest responsive bids of responsible bidders are identical in price. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Time and materials contract: means a contract under which the contractor is paid: (a)  the actual cost of direct labor at specified hourly rates; (b)  the actual cost of materials and equipment usage; and (c)  an additional amount, expressly described in the contract, to cover overhead and profit, that is not based on a percentage of the cost to the contractor. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103 Town: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5