§ 11-35-4860 — Supply of personnel, information, and technical services.

(1) Supply of Personnel. Any public procurement unit is authorized, in its discretion, upon written request from another public procurement unit or external procurement activity, to provide personnel services to the requesting public procurement unit or external procurement activity with or without pay by the recipient governmental unit as may be agreed upon by the parties involved. (2) Supply of Services. The informational, technical, and other services of any public procurement unit may be made available to any other public procurement unit or external procurement activity provided, that the requirements of the public procurement unit tendering the services shall have precedence over the requesting public procurement unit or external procurement activity. The payment shall be in accordance with an agreement between the parties. (3) State Information Services. Upon request, the chief procurement officers may make available to public procurement units or external procurement activities the following services among others: (a) standard forms; (b) printed manuals; (c) product specifications and standards; (d) quality assurance testing services and methods; (e) qualified product lists; (f) source information; (g) common use commodities listings; (h) supplier prequalification information; (i) supplier performance ratings; (j) debarred and suspended bidders lists; (k) forms for invitations for bids, requests for proposals, instruction to bidders, general contract provisions and other contract forms; (l) contracts; or (m) published summaries of contracts, including price and time of delivery information. (4) State Technical Services. The State, through the chief procurement officers, may provide the following technical services among others: (a) development of products specifications; (b) development of quality assurance test methods, including receiving, inspection, and acceptance procedures; (c) use of product testing and inspection facilities; (d) use of personnel training programs. (5) Fees. The chief procurement officers may enter into contractual arrangements and publish a schedule of fees for the services provided under subsections (3) and (4) of this section. All proceeds from the sale of such services must be deposited in the State Treasury in a special account and expended only for the costs of providing the goods and services, and such funds may be retained and expended for the same purposes.

Legislative History

HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 148, SECTION 1; 1997 Act No. 153; 2019 Act No. 41 (S.530), SECTION 69, eff May 13, 2019. Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 41, SECTION 80, provides as follows: "SECTION 80. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and applies to solicitations issued after that date." Effect of Amendment 2019 Act No. 41, SECTION 69, in (3), rewrote (l) and added (m); and in (5), added the third sentence.