Under legislation approved this year, the State's Department of Enterprise Services has been charged with developing reforms to update the rules and policies that govern how state agencies buy more than $1 billion of goods and services annually.
Work groups established: Seven work groups with representatives from key stakeholders will be meeting weekly from May 14, 2012 to the end of June 2012 to identify areas needing changes and to make recommendations. The work groups have been assigned to study the following topics:
- Training
- Award
- Sole source contracts
- Transparency policies, such as posting contract documents
- Debarment
- Procurement management guidelines
- Ethics, cost recovery, cooperative purchasing, convenience contracts, performance bonds, emergency purchases and more
Procurement Reform Advisory Committee: After the work groups have completed their work, the Procurement Reform Advisory Committee will meet monthly through the fall to review and comment on the recommendations from the work groups, and develop final policies and rules. The new policies and rules will take effect January 1, 2013.
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