| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Jan 06, 2010 |
referred to local government |
| Jan 07, 2009 |
referred to local government |
Senate Bill S274
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government Committee
Actions
2009-S274 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Local Government
- Law Section:
- General Municipal Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง103, Gen Muni L
2009-S274 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Increases the thresholds to $50,000 for public works contracts and to $20,000 for purchase contracts, for which a locality must advertise and award to the lowest responsible bidder; authorizes the awarding of service contracts based on the basis of best value; authorizes cooperative purchasing of information technology and telecommunications hardware, software and professional services; authorizes cooperative purchases of goods.
2009-S274 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S274
TITLE OF BILL :
An act to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the awarding
of contracts, payments by contractors to subcontractors and local
government procurement practices
PURPOSE :
To give local governments more flexibility with respect to contracts.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :
Section one - amends subdivision 1 of section 103 of the general
municipal law, as amended by chapter 741 of the laws of 2005 to make
permanent the existing authorization to use electronic bidding tools
and to raise the competitive bidding thresholds from $10,000 to
$20,000 for commodities and from $20,000 to $50,000 for public works
projects.
Section two - adds three new subdivisions 1-b, 1-c and 16 of section
103 of the general municipal law to allow contracts for services to be
awarded on the basis of "best value" rather than lowest bid; to allow
for purchasing of information technology products and services through
cooperative purchasing under the federal general services
administration information technology schedule 70 or successor
2009-S274 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
274
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 7, 2009
___________
Introduced by Sen. LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the awarding
of contracts, payments by contractors to subcontractors and local
government procurement practices
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 103 of the general municipal law,
as amended by chapter 741 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as
follows:
1. Except as otherwise expressly provided by an act of the legislature
or by a local law adopted prior to September first, nineteen hundred
fifty-three, all contracts for public work involving an expenditure of
more than [twenty] FIFTY thousand dollars and all purchase contracts
involving an expenditure of more than [ten] TWENTY thousand dollars,
shall be awarded by the appropriate officer, board or agency of a poli-
tical subdivision or of any district therein including but not limited
to a soil conservation district, to the lowest responsible bidder
furnishing the required security after advertisement for sealed bids in
the manner provided by this section. In any case where a responsible
bidder's gross price is reducible by an allowance for the value of used
machinery, equipment, apparatus or tools to be traded in by a political
subdivision, the gross price shall be reduced by the amount of such
allowance, for the purpose of determining the low bid. In cases where
two or more responsible bidders furnishing the required security submit
identical bids as to price, such officer, board or agency may award the
contract to any of such bidders. Such officer, board or agency may, in
his or its discretion, reject all bids and readvertise for new bids in
the manner provided by this section. For purposes of this section,
"sealed bids", as that term applies to purchase contracts, shall include
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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