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LouisianaSB 1512025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

PROCUREMENT CODE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Procurement Code. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Beth Mizell (Republican)

Signed by Governor

AppropriationsFinance

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

8 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 6 mixed.

Public agencies gain shared purchasing options

Louisiana public purchasing units can use cooperative agreements for supplies and a broader range of services. Covered services include personal, professional, consulting, and social services. Participating units must have an agreement among themselves. The law expands purchasing options but does not require purchases or guarantee savings.

Vendors need security to pause awards

A timely vendor protest no longer automatically pauses a state contract award. To request a pause, vendors must apply during the protest period and provide an approved bond or other security. Security must equal 25% of the contract’s maximum amount, or its estimated total value when the total cannot be determined. If the protest fails and the award stands, the agency may claim documented state expenses and monetary losses against that security. Security is returned if the protest succeeds and the award is canceled.

Agencies follow ranked contract negotiation rules

Agencies must negotiate with the responsible proposer they identify in writing as offering the best value to the state. Talks must address the work, staffing and facilities, and fair compensation. If talks fail, agencies may move to the next proposer in score order after documenting why negotiations ended. The state procurement office must confirm termination to the proposer in writing within 3 business days. Contracts must start at least 14 days after the award notice.

Consultants face new competition and advertising thresholds

Consulting contracts below $150,000 in maximum compensation over 12 months may skip competitive bidding or negotiation. Contracts at or above $150,000 must use requests for proposals, reverse auctions, invitations to negotiate, or cooperative purchasing. Agencies cannot split service needs to stay below the limit. The specified advertising threshold rises from $50,000 to $150,000, including transportation consulting contracts covered by a separate rule. Optional procurement support teams may help with any consulting contract by preparing requests, reviewing responses, and recommending awards.

Online contract notices gain local exceptions

Agencies must post covered proposal requests in the central state system and the website accepting electronic bids; journal publication is optional. Notice periods are 30 days generally, 14 days for covered social services, and 15 days for covered transportation consulting. Agencies must also notify known providers and the Board of Regents as required. Secure electronic proposal-system requirements exempt entities without high-speed internet until access becomes available, police-jury parishes below 20,000 people, and municipalities below 10,000. Entities needing to secure and spend additional funding to comply are also exempt.

Vendors gain flexibility under proposal rules

The chief procurement officer can authorize covered competitive proposals through a written best-interest finding, without the commissioner’s approval. Professional, personal, consulting, and social service requests remain exempt from that written finding. Requests must explain evaluation criteria, the relative importance of price and other factors, and applicable work deadlines. The law removes express requirements to describe certain service tasks or desired outcomes. Vendors may change or withdraw proposals before discussions end, and the state must keep competing proposal information private until award.

Vendors get shorter sealed-bid notice

Louisiana agencies must give at least 5 days’ public notice before sealed bids open, down from 10 days. Purchases for housing state agencies, their personnel, operations, equipment, or activities keep a 20-day notice period. Advertising is required above the amount set by the small-purchase executive order. Publication in the state official journal is optional, reducing required advertising steps but giving vendors less advance notice.

State landlords face revised lease limits

The threshold for the specified competitive process for state leases in privately owned buildings rises from 5,000 to 10,000 square feet. Leases covering at least 10,000 square feet cannot last more than 10 years. Lease amendment and renegotiation rules now cover all types of space, not just offices and warehouses. Leases below 10,000 square feet may be amended up to 9,999 square feet; applicable renegotiation and consolidation requirements still apply. State storage-unit leases of 1,000 square feet or less do not need the commissioner of administration’s approval.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Beth Mizell

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 153 • No: 0

House vote • 6/3/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 99 • No: 0

House vote • 5/27/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 17 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/28/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 5.

    6/11/2025Senate

  2. Effective date 6/11/2025.

    6/11/2025Senate

  3. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.

    6/9/2025Senate

  4. Received from the House without amendments.

    6/8/2025Senate

  5. Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/8/2025Senate

  6. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/8/2025House

  7. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    6/3/2025House

  8. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.

    6/2/2025House

  9. Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/29/2025House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/28/2025House

  11. Reported favorably (17-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/27/2025House

  12. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

    4/29/2025House

  13. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/28/2025Senate

  14. Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

    4/28/2025House

  15. Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    4/23/2025Senate

  16. Reported with amendments.

    4/22/2025Senate

  17. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Finance.

    4/14/2025Senate

  18. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Finance.

    4/4/2025Senate

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