Chapter 30 — FINANCE

(30 ILCS 500/10-10) Sec. 10-10. Independent State purchasing officers. (a) The chief procurement officer shall appoint and determine the salary of a State purchasing officer for each agency that the chief procurement officer is responsible for under Section 1-15.15. A State purch…

(30 ILCS 500/10-15) Sec. 10-15. Procurement compliance monitors. (a) The Executive Ethics Commission may appoint procurement compliance monitors to oversee and review the procurement processes. Each procurement compliance monitor shall serve a term of 5 years beginning on the dat…

(30 ILCS 500/10-20) Sec. 10-20. Independent chief procurement officers. (a) Appointment. Within 60 calendar days after July 1, 2010 (the effective date of Public Act 96-795), the Executive Ethics Commission, with the advice and consent of the Senate shall appoint or approve 4 chi…

(30 ILCS 500/10-25) Sec. 10-25. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 96-795, eff. 7-1-10 (see Section 5 of P.A. 96-793 for the effective date of P.A. 96-795). Repealed internally, eff. 1-10-11.)

(30 ILCS 500/10-30) Sec. 10-30. Fiduciary duty. Each chief procurement officer, State purchasing officer, and procurement compliance monitor owe a fiduciary duty to the State. (Source: P.A. 100-43, eff. 8-9-17.)

(30 ILCS 500/10-5) Sec. 10-5. Exercise of procurement authority. The chief procurement officer shall exercise all procurement authority created by this Code. The State purchasing officers appointed under this Code shall exercise procurement authority at the direction of their res…

(30 ILCS 500/15-1) Sec. 15-1. Publisher. Each chief procurement officer, in consultation with the agencies under his or her jurisdiction, possesses the rights to and is the authority responsible for publishing its volume of the Illinois Procurement Bulletin. Each volume of the Il…

(30 ILCS 500/15-10) Sec. 15-10. Contents. The Illinois Procurement Bulletin shall contain notices and other information required by this Code or by rules promulgated under this Code to be published in the Illinois Procurement Bulletin. Each volume shall include a comprehensive in…

(30 ILCS 500/15-15) Sec. 15-15. Publication. All volumes of the Illinois Procurement Bulletin shall be published at least once per month. Any volume, including volumes available in print format, shall be available through subscription for a minimal fee not exceeding publication a…

(30 ILCS 500/15-20) Sec. 15-20. Qualified bidders or offerors. Subscription to the Illinois Procurement Bulletin shall not be required to qualify as a bidder or offeror under this Code. (Source: P.A. 98-1076, eff. 1-1-15.)

(30 ILCS 500/15-25) Sec. 15-25. Bulletin content. (a) Invitations for bids. Notice of each and every contract that is offered, including renegotiated contracts and change orders, shall be published in the Bulletin. The applicable chief procurement officer may provide by rule an o…

(30 ILCS 500/15-30) Sec. 15-30. Electronic Bulletin clearinghouse. (a) The Procurement Policy Board shall maintain on its official website a searchable database containing all information required to be included in the Illinois Procurement Bulletin under subsections (b), (c), (c-…

(30 ILCS 500/15-35) Sec. 15-35. Vendor portal. Each chief procurement officer may, in consultation with the agencies under his or her jurisdiction and the Procurement Policy Board, establish a vendor portal. The vendor portal shall allow a potential vendor to provide certificatio…

(30 ILCS 500/15-40) Sec. 15-40. Method of notices and reports. Notices and reports required by any Section of this Code may be made by either paper or electronic means. (Source: P.A. 98-1076, eff. 1-1-15.)

(30 ILCS 500/15-45) Sec. 15-45. Computation of days. The time within which any act provided in this Code is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless the last day is Saturday or Sunday or is a holiday, and then it shall also be exclude…

(30 ILCS 500/20-10) (Text of Section from P.A. 96-159, 96-588, 97-96, 97-895, 98-1076, 99-906, 100-43, 101-31, 101-657, 102-29, 103-558, and 103-564) Sec. 20-10. Competitive sealed bidding; reverse auction. (a) Conditions for use. All contracts shall be awarded by competitive sea…

(30 ILCS 500/20-105) Sec. 20-105. State agency printing. All books, pamphlets, documents, and reports published through or by the State of Illinois or any State agency, board, or commission shall have printed thereon "Printed by authority of the State of Illinois", the date of ea…

(30 ILCS 500/20-110) Sec. 20-110. Printing cost offsets. The chief procurement officer may promulgate rules permitting the exchange of advertising rights in or receipt of free copies of printed products procured under this Article as a means of reducing printing costs. The rules …

(30 ILCS 500/20-120) Sec. 20-120. Subcontractors. (a) Any contract granted under this Code shall state whether the services of a subcontractor will be used. The contract shall include the names and addresses of all known subcontractors with subcontracts with an annual value that …

(30 ILCS 500/20-15) Sec. 20-15. Competitive sealed proposals. (a) Conditions for use. When provided under this Code or under rules, or when the purchasing agency determines in writing that the use of competitive sealed bidding is either not practicable or not advantageous to the …

(30 ILCS 500/20-150) Sec. 20-150. Proposed contracts; Procurement Policy Board. This Article is subject to Section 5-30 of this Code. (Source: P.A. 93-839, eff. 7-30-04.)

(30 ILCS 500/20-155) Sec. 20-155. Solicitation and contract documents. (a) Each chief procurement officer appointed pursuant to Section 10-20 shall have the sole authority in their respective jurisdiction to develop and distribute uniform documents for the solicitation, review, a…

(30 ILCS 500/20-160) Sec. 20-160. Business entities; certification; registration with the State Board of Elections. (a) For purposes of this Section, the terms "business entity", "contract", "State contract", "contract with a State agency", "State agency", "affiliated entity", an…

(30 ILCS 500/20-165) Sec. 20-165. Compliance with Transportation Sustainability Procurement Program Act. When procuring freight, small package delivery, and other forms of cargo shipping and transportation services, appropriate weight shall be given to the requirements of the Tra…

(30 ILCS 500/20-170) Sec. 20-170. Quincy Veterans' Home rehabilitation and rebuilding contracts. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any contract for procurements entered into under the Quincy Veterans' Home Rehabilitation and Rebuilding Act and executed prior t…

(30 ILCS 500/20-180) Sec. 20-180. Electronic procurement systems. Nothing in this Code prohibits State agencies from accepting bids or proposals for competitive solicitations submitted solely via an electronic procurement system as long as the electronic system integrates with th…

(30 ILCS 500/20-20) Sec. 20-20. Small purchases. (a) Amount. Any individual procurement of supplies or services not exceeding $100,000 and any procurement of construction not exceeding $100,000, or any individual procurement of professional or artistic services not exceeding $100…

(30 ILCS 500/20-25) Sec. 20-25. Sole source procurements. (a) In accordance with standards set by rule, contracts may be awarded without use of the specified method of source selection when there is only one economically feasible source for the item. A State contract may be award…

(30 ILCS 500/20-25.1) Sec. 20-25.1. Special expedited procurement. (a) The Chief Procurement Officer shall work with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to identify an appropriate method of source selection that will result in an executed contract for the technology …

(30 ILCS 500/20-25.2) Sec. 20-25.2. Procurement of licensing software by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code or any law to the contrary, the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall identif…

(30 ILCS 500/20-25.3) (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 20-25.3. Procurement of transition consultant by the Department of Transportation. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code or any law to the contrary, the Depar…

(30 ILCS 500/20-30) Sec. 20-30. Emergency purchases. (a) Conditions for use. In accordance with standards set by rule, a purchasing agency may make emergency procurements without competitive sealed bidding or prior notice when there exists a threat to public health or public safe…

(30 ILCS 500/20-35) Sec. 20-35. Competitive selection procedures. (a) Conditions for use. The services specified in Article 35 shall be procured in accordance with this Section, except as authorized under Sections 20-25 and 20-30 of this Article. (b) Statement of qualifications. …

(30 ILCS 500/20-40) Sec. 20-40. Cancellation of invitations for bids or requests for proposals. An invitation for bids, a request for proposals, or any other solicitation may be cancelled without penalty, or any and all bids, offers, proposals, or any other solicitation may be re…

(30 ILCS 500/20-43) Sec. 20-43. Bidder or offeror authorized to transact business or conduct affairs in Illinois. In addition to meeting any other requirement of law or rule, a person (other than an individual acting as a sole proprietor) may qualify as a bidder or offeror under …

(30 ILCS 500/20-45) Sec. 20-45. Prequalification of suppliers. The chief procurement officer shall promulgate rules for the development of prequalified supplier lists for appropriate categories of purchases and the annual updating of those lists. (Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date -…

(30 ILCS 500/20-5) Sec. 20-5. Method of source selection. Unless otherwise authorized by law, all State contracts shall be awarded by competitive sealed bidding, in accordance with Section 20-10, except as provided in Sections 20-15, 20-20, 20-25, 20-30, 20-35, 30-15, and 40-20. …

(30 ILCS 500/20-50) Sec. 20-50. Specifications. Specifications shall be prepared in accordance with consistent standards that are promulgated by the chief procurement officer and reviewed by the Board and the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. Those standards shall include …

(30 ILCS 500/20-55) Sec. 20-55. Types of contracts. Subject to the limitations of this Section and unless otherwise authorized by law, any type of contract that will promote the best interests of the State may be used, except that cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost contracts are proh…

(30 ILCS 500/20-57) Sec. 20-57. Software licensing contracts. A contract entered into by a public agency for the licensing of software applications designed to run on generally available desktop or server hardware may not limit the public agency's ability to install or run the so…

(30 ILCS 500/20-60) Sec. 20-60. Duration of contracts. (a) Maximum duration. A contract may be entered into for any period of time deemed to be in the best interests of the State but not exceeding 10 years inclusive, beginning January 1, 2010, of proposed contract renewals; provi…

(30 ILCS 500/20-65) Sec. 20-65. Right to audit records. (a) Maintenance of books and records. Every contract and subcontract shall require the contractor or subcontractor, as applicable, to maintain books and records relating to the performance of the contract or subcontract and …

(30 ILCS 500/20-70) Sec. 20-70. Finality of determinations. Except as otherwise provided in this Code, determinations made by a chief procurement officer, State purchasing officer, or a purchasing agency under this Code are final and conclusive unless they are clearly erroneous, …

(30 ILCS 500/20-75) Sec. 20-75. Disputes and protests. The chief procurement officers shall by rule establish procedures to be followed in resolving protested solicitations and awards and contract controversies, for debarment or suspension of contractors, and for resolving other …

(30 ILCS 500/20-80) Sec. 20-80. Contract files. (a) Written determinations. All written determinations required under this Article shall be placed in the contract file maintained by the chief procurement officer. (b) Filing with Comptroller. Whenever a grant, defined pursuant to …

(30 ILCS 500/20-85) Sec. 20-85. Federal requirements. A State agency receiving federal-aid funds, grants, or loans shall have authority to adopt its procedures, rules, project statements, drawings, maps, surveys, plans, specifications, contract terms, estimates, bid forms, bond f…

(30 ILCS 500/20-90) Sec. 20-90. Foreign country procurements. Procurements to meet the needs of State offices located in foreign countries shall comply with the provisions of this Code to the extent practical. (Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date - See Sec. 99-5.)

(30 ILCS 500/20-95) Sec. 20-95. Donations. Nothing in this Code or in the rules promulgated under this Code shall prevent any State agency from complying with the terms and conditions of any grant, gift, or bequest that calls for the procurement of a particular good or service or…

(30 ILCS 500/25-10) Sec. 25-10. Authority. State purchasing officers shall have the authority to procure supplies and services, except as that authority may be limited by the chief procurement officer. (Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date - See Sec. 99-5.)

(30 ILCS 500/25-15) Sec. 25-15. Method of source selection. (a) Competitive sealed bidding. Except as provided in subsection (b) and Sections 20-20, 20-25, and 20-30, all State contracts for supplies and services shall be awarded by competitive sealed bidding in accordance with S…