Title 4, State Government

(1) The chief procurement officer has the power and duty to:(1) Effective January 1, 2012, establish a single, public procurement website that includes how to do business with the state; registration for bidders; posting of all procurements in process and related status to award;…

(a) (1) There is created an advisory council on state procurement that consists of five (5) voting members and seven (7) nonvoting members.(2) The five (5) voting members of the advisory council include:(A) One (1) representative of state agencies appointed by the commissioner of…

(a) (1) All requests of the procuring agency to procure goods or services through a noncompetitive contract must be contemporaneously filed with the fiscal review committee of the general assembly, comptroller of the treasury, and the chief procurement officer. For purposes of th…

(a) The comptroller of the treasury shall review and approve such procurements, contracts, grants, and other related documents prior to the public posting on the single procurement website of such procurements; prior to posting any amendments thereto; after recommendation for awa…

(a) (a) As used in this section, “vendor” means a legal entity that:(1) Is currently under contract with a department or agency of this state;(2) Bids on a contract with a department or agency of this state; or(3) Attempts to amend a current contract with a department or agency o…

(a) On or before March 31, 2023, the chief procurement officer shall establish a central database of information regarding grant recipients and sub-recipients for monitoring purposes. This database must include, but not be limited to:(1) The grant recipient and sub-recipient info…

(a) For each emergency purchase the central procurement office approves, the office shall report the following to the fiscal review committee within thirty (30) days of the approval:(1) Any delegated emergency purchase authority granted by the central procurement office;(2) The r…

(a) Notwithstanding § 39-13-902 or other law, a state agency shall not purchase or acquire a drone, as defined in the federal National Defense Authorization Act of 2019 (Pub. L. No. 115-232), produced by a manufacturer banned under Section 889 of the National Defense Authorizatio…

(a) The chief procurement officer may develop regulations, policies, procedures, templates, or other guidance related to the acquisition of information systems and software to the full extent of the authority of the chief procurement officer, including, but not limited to:(1) Cri…

(a) This part is known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Procurement Protection Act.” (b) The purpose of this act is to ensure that suppliers to the state and to political subdivisions of this state are safe, reliable, and free from undue influence and control from foreign adver…

(1) As used in this part:(1) “Chief procurement officer” means the chief procurement officer within the department of general services;(2) “Company” means a sole proprietorship, organization, association, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited partnership, limited liabi…

(1) Except as provided in § 4-56-204, it is the policy of this state to:(1) Prohibit the public procurement of final products or services from a foreign adversary company, whether those final products or services are sold directly by the foreign adversary company or through a thi…

(a) Except as provided in subsection (e), a foreign adversary company is prohibited from bidding on or submitting a proposal for a contract with a state agency or political subdivision of this state for information and communications technology. (b) For the purpose of complying w…