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Assembly Bill A9404

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to procurement contracts

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2021-A9404 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §359-a, Pub Auth L

2021-A9404 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the amount of procurement contracts for the New York state thruway authority from fifteen thousand to fifty thousand dollars or more.

2021-A9404 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9404
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 1, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public authorities law, in relation to procurement
   contracts
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 359-a of the public authorities law, as amended by
 section 7 of part TT of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   §  359-a.  Procurement  contracts. For the purposes of section twenty-
 eight hundred seventy-nine of this chapter as applied to the  authority,
 the term "procurement contract" shall mean any written agreement for the
 acquisition  of  goods  or  services of any kind by the authority in the
 actual or estimated amount of [fifteen] FIFTY thousand dollars or  more.
 THE  AUTHORITY MAY UTILIZE A PROCUREMENT CONTRACT LET BY ANY DEPARTMENT,
 AGENCY OR INSTRUMENTALITY OF THE UNITED  STATES  GOVERNMENT  AND/OR  ANY
 DEPARTMENT,  AGENCY, OFFICE, POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OR INSTRUMENTALITY OF
 ANY STATE OR STATES. THE AUTHORITY SHALL  DOCUMENT  IN  THE  PROCUREMENT
 RECORD  ITS  RATIONALE  FOR  THE  USE OF SUCH A CONTRACT. SUCH RATIONALE
 SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NEED NOT BE LIMITED TO, A DETERMINATION  OF  NEED,  A
 CONSIDERATION  OF  THE  PROCUREMENT  METHOD  BY  WHICH  THE CONTRACT WAS
 AWARDED, AN ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVE  PROCUREMENT  SOURCES  INCLUDING  AN
 EXPLANATION  WHY  A  COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT OR THE USE OF A CENTRALIZED
 CONTRACT LET BY THE COMMISSIONER OF THE OFFICE OF  GENERAL  SERVICES  IS
 NOT  IN  THE  BEST  INTEREST OF THE AUTHORITY, AND THE REASONABLENESS OF
 COST.  THE AUTHORITY SHALL ACCEPT SOLE RESPONSIBILITY  FOR  ANY  PAYMENT
 DUE  THE  VENDOR OR CONTRACTOR AS A RESULT OF THE AUTHORITY'S USE OF THE
 CONTRACT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14870-01-2

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