Bill Text: VA SB563 | 2020 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: DGS; public posting of contract information on central electronic procurement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-03-06 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0179) [SB563 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2020-SB563-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §2.2-1110 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§2.2-1110. Using agencies to purchase through Division of Purchases and Supply; exception.
A. Except as provided by §2.2-2012 or otherwise directed and authorized by the Division or in the Code of Virginia, every authority, department, division, institution, officer, agency, and other unit of state government, hereinafter called the using agency, shall purchase through the Division all materials, equipment, supplies, printing and nonprofessional services of every description, whenever the whole or a part of the costs is to be paid out of the state treasury. The Division shall make such purchases in conformity with this article.
B. The Division shall maintain the Department of
General Services' central electronic procurement system. At a minimum this
procurement system shall provide for the purchase of goods and services,
and the public posting of all Invitations to Bid, Requests for Proposal,
sole source award notices, emergency award notices, awarded contracts and
modifications thereto, and reports on purchases. All using agencies shall
utilize the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement
system as their purchasing system beginning at the point of requisitioning for
all procurement actions, including but not limited to technology,
transportation, and construction, unless otherwise authorized in writing by the
Division. Where necessary to capture data in agency enterprise resource
planning systems and to eliminate or avoid duplicate or manual data entry in
such agency systems, using agencies shall integrate their enterprise resource
planning systems with the Department of General Services' central electronic
procurement system, unless otherwise authorized in writing by the Division or
in accordance with the provisions of the Restructured Higher Education
Financial and Administrative Operations Act (§23.1-1000 et seq.).
Using agencies shall post on the Department of General
Services' central electronic procurement website all Invitations to Bid,
Requests for Proposal, sole source award notices, and emergency award
notices, and awarded contracts and modifications thereto to ensure
visibility and access to the Commonwealth's procurement opportunities on one
website.
To increase transparency of governmental procurement activities, the Division shall direct all using agencies to conspicuously post on their respective homepages links to the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement system reports, thereby making them accessible to the public.
B. C. The provisions of subsection A shall not
apply to the purchase of materials, equipment, supplies, printing and
nonprofessional services of every description by the Virginia Retirement
System; however, the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System shall
adopt regulations made in accordance with the Virginia Public Procurement Act
(§2.2-4300 et seq.) that specify policies and procedures that are based on
competitive principles and that are generally applicable to procurement of such
goods and services by comparably situated state agencies. The exemption
provided by this subsection shall apply for only as long as such regulations,
or other regulations meeting the requirements of this subsection, remain in
effect at the Virginia Retirement System.
2. That any contract awarded pursuant to an Invitation to Bid or Request for Proposals on or after July 1, 2021, including any subsequent modifications to the contract by a using agency as defined in §2.2-1110, shall be posted on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement system. Additionally, a modification made by a using agency on or after July 1, 2021, to any other contract that has two or more years remaining shall be posted on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement system, along with the original contract and any previous modifications.
