Title 12, Public Property, Printing And Contracts

Except as provided in §§ 12-3-102 and 12-3-103, all goods and services, and all telephone, telegraph, electric light, gas, power, postal services, and the leasing of any equipment required for the use of state government, shall be purchased and contracted for by the central procu…

(a) Procurements and contracts by and for the following state governmental entities shall be exempt from the operation of this chapter:(1) The legislative branch;(2) The judicial branch;(3) The board of trustees of the University of Tennessee system, the Tennessee board of regent…

(a) Contracts for legal services, fiscal agent, financial advisor or advisory services, educational consultant services, and similar services by professional persons or groups with high ethical standards, shall not be based upon competitive procurement methods, but shall be award…

Whenever any state department or agency applies to the department of general services to lease or rent any equipment, the department of general services shall first ascertain whether or not any such equipment is available for use from any other department, institution, or agency.…

Sections 12-3-1101 — 12-3-1108 shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Minority-Owned, Woman-Owned, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Business Owned by Persons with Disabilities, and Small Business Procurement and Contracting Act.”

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Business owned by persons with disabilities” means a business owned by a person with a disability that is a continuing, independent, for-profit business that performs a commercially useful function, and is at le…

(a) The procurement commission is authorized to adopt rules and regulations establishing criteria and standards for minority-owned businesses, woman-owned businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned businesses, businesses owned by persons with disabilities, and small businesses th…

(a) (1) All state agencies are required to actively solicit bids and proposals for equipment, supplies, personal services, professional services, consulting services, construction contracts, and architectural and engineering services from a minority-owned business, woman-owned bu…

The departments of general services, finance and administration, transportation and economic and community development, and the state building commission shall cooperate with the governor's office of diversity business enterprises in the design and implementation of procedures fo…

(a) The chief procurement officer, as director of the governor's office of diversity business enterprises, shall appoint a diversity business program director to work in conjunction with the departments of general services, finance and administration, transportation, economic and…

(a) The chief procurement officer shall annually report, on or before each December 31, to the governor and to each member of the general assembly concerning the awarding of purchases to minority-owned business, woman-owned business, service-disabled veteran-owned business, busin…

All departments, agencies and institutions of state government that purchase meat, meat food products or meat by-products, as defined in § 53-7-202, with state funds shall give preference to producers located within the boundaries of this state when awarding contracts or agreemen…

All public education institutions using state funds to purchase meat, meat food products, or meat by-products, as defined in § 53-7-202, shall give preference in awarding contracts or agreements for the purchase of such meat or meat products to producers located within the bounda…

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, all state agencies, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, institutions of higher education, schools and all other state entities shall purchase coal mined in this state if such coal is available at a delivered price …

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, all state agencies, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, institutions of higher education, schools and all other state entities shall purchase natural gas produced from wells located in the state if such gas is avai…

(a) There is created the governor's office of diversity business enterprises to administer this part. All positions, resources and functions of the governor's office of diversity business enterprises existing within the department of general services shall be transferred to the p…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, all departments and agencies making purchases of goods, including agricultural products, shall give preference to those produced or grown in this state or offered by Tennessee respondents as follows:(1) Goods produced in this sta…

(a) The central procurement office may, upon request, purchase goods and services for any county, city, municipality, special district, school district, other local governmental unit of the state, or quasi-governmental entity organized under a city, municipality, or county. The p…

(a) Notwithstanding any charter, private act, or general law requirements, any municipality or any county may purchase used or secondhand articles consisting of goods, equipment, materials, supplies, or commodities from any federal, state, or local governmental unit or agency wit…

(a) (1) Any municipality, county, utility district, or other local governmental unit of the state may, upon request, purchase supplies, equipment, and services for any other municipality, county, utility district, or other local governmental unit.(2) The purchases shall be made o…

(a) As used in this section, “municipality,” “county,” and “metropolitan government” apply only to municipalities, counties, and metropolitan governments with a population greater than one hundred fifty thousand (150,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent fe…

(a) Any municipality, county, utility district, or other local government of the state may participate in, sponsor, conduct or administer a cooperative purchasing agreement for the procurement of any supplies, services or construction with one (1) or more other local governments …

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a county, municipality and metropolitan government may transfer the ownership of assets for fire protection purchased through or with the proceeds of federal, state or local grants to volunteer fire departments within such county, municipality o…

(a) Any municipality may use competitive sealed proposals to purchase goods and services rather than competitive sealed bids when the municipal governing body, acting under the restrictions and requirements of this section and a procurement code adopted by the governing body, det…

(a) (1) As used in this section, “local governmental unit” means and includes a county, city, municipality, special district, utility district, school district, authority or any other entity created or appointed by a local governmental unit of the state.(2) For a purchase of good…

(a) Contracts by counties, cities, metropolitan governments, towns, utility districts and other municipal and public corporations of this state for legal services, fiscal agent, financial advisor or advisory services, services from an insurance producer, as that term is defined i…

(1) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the Tennessee board of regents system and the University of Tennessee system are authorized to:(1) Develop procedures to apply the policy of § 12-3-701 to their constituent institutions, including procedures describing the circumstance…

(a) The central procurement office may establish contracts for the purchase of personal computers and related devices by public school teachers for use outside the classroom. The computers and related devices shall not be purchased with public funds, but shall be paid for and own…

(a) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, a county, municipality, utility district, local education agency, or other local governmental entity having centralized purchasing authority with a full-time purchasing agent may, by resolution or ordinance of its governing body, i…

Where any local or private act, charter, or general law requires that a local governmental unit purchase by competitive procurement method, the local governmental unit may, notwithstanding the local or private act, charter, or general law, purchase, without public advertisement o…

(a) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, when purchasing gasoline or diesel fuel in bulk amounts that would exceed the applicable bid limits, a county, municipality, metropolitan government, utility district, local education agency, or other local governmental entity may …

(a) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, a local government may use any project delivery method that the local government determines most effectively meets the needs of the local government for the construction of qualified local projects, if the local government:(1) Has …

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Central procurement office” means the government agency established in § 4-56-104;(2) “Chief procurement officer” means the person holding the position established in § 4-56-104, as the head of the central pr…

Subject to the regulations and requirements of the Tennessee public utility commission and other state or federal bodies, the central procurement office is authorized to extend the use of the state network long distance telephone service to students at state universities and coll…

(a) (1) Before April 1 of each year, each state agency shall compile and submit to the chief procurement officer and the comptroller of the treasury, a written acquisition plan for the upcoming fiscal year forecasting the specific categories and quantities of goods and services a…

(a) Any statement or agreement in which the respondent is asked to indicate a willingness to meet the low price, if such respondent is not the low respondent, is adverse to the competitive procurement standards and shall not be included in any solicitation to be awarded by any st…

(a) Any contract for goods or services entered into by an executive branch state agency shall be executed by the head of such state agency and approved by the chief procurement officer. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, approval of the chief procurement officer and n…

(a) When any state agency required by this chapter to purchase goods or services through the central procurement office, contracts for the purchase of goods or services contrary to this chapter or the rules and regulations made hereunder, such contract shall be void and of no eff…

(a) The central procurement office or the procuring state governmental entity shall be responsible for the effective management of all contracts procured under its authority and shall adopt regulations or policies that define service contracting fundamentals. Such regulations or …

(a) A state governmental entity shall not contract to acquire goods or services, and no person may contract to supply goods or services to a state governmental entity, unless, prior to, or contemporaneous with, entering into the contract, the person contracting to supply goods or…

Contracting state agencies that establish the procedural and administrative accountability requirements shall apply these requirements to all matching funds. The established procedural and administrative requirements shall remain in effect for the entire fiscal year covered by th…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, state and local governments shall contract for goods and services provided through, or administered by, the departments of children's services, health, and human services without discrimination against religious organizations or …

(a) Prohibited contracts:(1) No state governmental entity shall contract to acquire goods or services from any person who knowingly utilizes the services of illegal immigrants in the performance of a contract for goods or services entered into with a state governmental entity;(2)…

(a) As used in this section, “call center” includes a person who performs services, including, but not limited to, data entry services, electronic governmental transfers, or other electronic, telephone and telecommunication services. (b) The chief procurement officer shall promul…

All noncompetitive purchases and contracts entered into by the department of transportation for nonconstruction and nonengineering projects or services with a term of more than one (1) year or which are renewable by either party that would extend the contract beyond twelve (12) m…

(a) (a) As used in this section, “state agency” also includes institutions of higher education. “State agency” does not include the department of treasury, the Tennessee financial literacy commission, the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, or any office of a constitutional…