Bill Text: TX HB2337 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to a vendor performance tracking system for state contracts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-29 - Considered in Calendars [HB2337 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2337-Introduced.html

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83R9404 MTB-D
By: Harper-Brown H.B. No. 2337

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a vendor performance tracking system for state
contracts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 2155, Government Code, is
amended by adding Sections 2155.088 and 2155.089 to read as
follows:
Sec. 2155.088. REPORTING VENDOR PERFORMANCE. (a) After a
contract is completed or otherwise terminated, each state agency
shall review the vendor's performance under the contract.
(b) The state agency shall report to the comptroller, using
the tracking system described by Section 2155.089, on the results
of the review regarding a vendor's performance under a contract.
Sec. 2155.089. VENDOR PERFORMANCE TRACKING SYSTEM. (a)
The comptroller shall evaluate a vendor's performance based on the
information reported under Section 2155.088 and criteria
established by the comptroller.
(b) The comptroller shall establish an evaluation process
that allows vendors who receive an unfavorable performance review
to protest any classification given by the comptroller.
(c) The comptroller shall include the performance reviews
in a vendor performance tracking system.
(d) A state agency shall use the vendor performance tracking
system to determine whether to award a contract to a vendor reviewed
in the database.
(e) The comptroller shall make the vendor performance
tracking system accessible to the public on the comptroller's
Internet website.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.