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Several state departments and the state building commission must work with the governor’s office of diversity business enterprises to design and implement procedures for identifying certain types of small and diverse businesses and for managing bid lists and procurement monitoring.
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The chief procurement officer must appoint a diversity business program director, and state agencies must cooperate with that office and provide requested support and reports.
United States — Tennessee
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The chief procurement officer must file an annual report by December 31 to the governor and each general assembly member about purchases awarded to specified business categories and related totals.
United States — Tennessee
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State departments, agencies, and institutions buying meat with state funds must prefer in-state producers when bids are otherwise equal.
United States — Tennessee
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Public education institutions using state funds to buy certain meat products must prefer in-state producers when bids are equal on terms, conditions, and quality.
United States — Tennessee
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State agencies and other state entities must buy in-state coal when it is available at a delivered price no higher than coal from outside the state.
United States — Tennessee
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State agencies and other state entities must buy in-state natural gas when it is priced no higher than out-of-state gas, with transportation costs considered.
United States — Tennessee
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The provision creates the governor's office of diversity business enterprises and requires state agencies and related officials to support small business participation, study contracting opportunities, and provide training to the small business advocate.
United States — Tennessee
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The central procurement office may buy goods and services for local government units on request, and local governments may use certain central contracts or local sources without competitive advertising in some cases.
United States — Tennessee
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Municipalities and counties may buy used or secondhand goods, equipment, materials, supplies, or commodities without public advertisement and competitive soliciting, subject to the stated source and value rules.
United States — Tennessee
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Local governments and LEAs may buy goods and services for each other under the same purchasing terms, with certain bid and contract rules, and some exceptions.
United States — Tennessee
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Local governments in scope must use competitive solicitation for purchases, leases, or lease-purchases over $10,000, and some metropolitan governments have special quotation/bidding thresholds.
United States — Tennessee
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Local governments may join or run cooperative purchasing agreements, but participants must keep documentation when bids are involved.
United States — Tennessee
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A county, municipality, or metropolitan government may transfer certain fire-protection assets to volunteer fire departments if the departments are nonprofit and locally approved.
United States — Tennessee
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Municipalities may use competitive sealed proposals for purchases only when the governing body finds sealed bidding is not practicable or not advantageous, and procurement-code rules are followed.
United States — Tennessee
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Local governmental units may use reverse auctions for goods or services, but must follow notice, participation, recordkeeping, and planning requirements, with listed exceptions.
United States — Tennessee
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Certain local governments must not use competitive solicitations for specified professional services, and fiscal/financial advisory services must be under a written contract.
United States — Tennessee
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The Tennessee board of regents system and the University of Tennessee system may set procedures and make certain software-related purchases and acquisitions, subject to liability/warranty terms and a ban on limiting liability for intentional torts, criminal acts, or fraud.
United States — Tennessee
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The central procurement office may set up contracts for teachers to buy personal computers and related devices for use outside the classroom, but the items cannot be bought with public funds and must be paid for and owned by the teachers. The office must also issue rules, and the procurement commission must approve the
United States — Tennessee
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Certain local governments with centralized purchasing authority may raise the bid threshold for public advertising and sealed competitive bidding, up to $25,000 for nonemergency, nonproprietary purchases.