Florida Senate - 2016                              CS for SB 350
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Appropriations; and Senators Montford,
       Hutson, Gaetz, and Soto
       
       576-03006-16                                           2016350c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to procurement procedures for
    3         educational institutions; amending s. 1010.04, F.S.;
    4         requiring each district school board and Florida
    5         College System institution board of trustees to review
    6         certain agreements and contracts before purchasing
    7         nonacademic commodities and contractual services under
    8         certain circumstances to determine whether the use of
    9         the agreements and contracts is economically
   10         advantageous; requiring that bid specifications
   11         include a specified statement; authorizing each
   12         district school board to also use specified
   13         cooperative state purchasing programs; authorizing
   14         specified educational institutions to make purchases
   15         through an online procurement system, an electronic
   16         auction service, or other efficient procurement tool;
   17         providing an effective date.
   18          
   19  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   20  
   21         Section 1. Subsections (1) and (2) of section 1010.04,
   22  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   23         1010.04 Purchasing.—
   24         (1)(a) Purchases and leases by school districts and Florida
   25  College System institutions shall comply with the requirements
   26  of law and rules of the State Board of Education.
   27         (b) Before purchasing nonacademic commodities and
   28  contractual services, each district school board and Florida
   29  College System institution board of trustees shall review the
   30  purchasing agreements and state term contracts available under
   31  s. 287.056 to determine whether it is in the school board’s or
   32  the board of trustees’ economic advantage to use the agreements
   33  and contracts. Each bid specification for nonacademic
   34  commodities and contractual services must include a statement
   35  indicating that the purchasing agreements and state term
   36  contracts available under s. 287.056 have been reviewed. Each
   37  district school board may also use the cooperative state
   38  purchasing programs managed through the regional consortium
   39  service organizations pursuant to their authority under s.
   40  1001.451(3).
   41         (c)(b) Purchases and leases by state universities shall
   42  comply with the requirements of law and regulations of the Board
   43  of Governors.
   44         (2) Each district school board and Florida College System
   45  institution board of trustees shall adopt rules, and each
   46  university board of trustees shall adopt regulations, to be
   47  followed in making purchases. Purchases may be made through an
   48  online procurement system, an electronic auction service, or
   49  other efficient procurement tool.
   50         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.