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Title XIII CORRECTIONAL AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS

Chapter 217

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  217.575.  Sales of goods or services to state or political subdivisions — promotion — price — certification of nonavailability required for state purchases, when. — 1.  All goods manufactured, services provided or produce of the vocational enterprises program of the state shall, upon the requisition of the proper official, be furnished to the state, to any public institution owned, managed or controlled by the state, or to any private entity that is leasing space to any agency of the state government for use in space leased to the state agency, at such prices as shall be determined as provided in subsection 4 of this section.

  2.  No goods or services so manufactured, provided or produced shall be purchased from any other source for the state or public institutions of the state unless the department shall certify the goods or services included in the requisition cannot be furnished or supplied by the vocational enterprises program within ninety days, or, in the event the same goods or services cannot be procured on the open market within ninety days, that the vocational enterprises program cannot supply them within a reasonable time.  No claims for the payment of such goods or services shall be audited or paid without this certificate.  One copy each of the requisition or certificate shall be retained by the department.

  3.  The division of purchasing and the division of facilities management, design and construction shall cooperate with the department in seeking to promote for use by state agencies and in state-owned or -occupied facilities the products manufactured and services provided by the vocational enterprises program.

  4.  The vocational enterprises program shall fix and determine the prices at which goods and produce so manufactured and produced and services so provided shall be furnished, and the prices shall be uniform to all.  The cost shall not be fixed at more than the market price for like goods and services.

  5.  Any differences between the vocational enterprises program and the state, its departments, divisions, agencies, institutions, or the political subdivisions of the state as to style, design, price or quality of goods shall be submitted to arbitrators whose decision shall be final.  One of the arbitrators shall be named by the program, one by the office, department, political subdivision or institution concerned, and one by agreement of the other two.  The arbitrators shall receive no compensation; however, their necessary expenses shall be paid by the office, department, political subdivision or institution against which the award is given, or, in the event of a compromise decision, by both parties, the amount to be paid by each party in portions to be determined by the arbitrators.

  6.  The vocational enterprises program may sell office systems and furniture to any department, agency, or institution of the state or any political subdivision of the state either through outright purchase or through payment plan agreement, including handling charges, over a specified number of months contingent on the solvency of the working capital revolving fund.  Prior approval shall be required by the division of facilities management, design and construction for state agencies in situations where the office of administration controlled state-owned office space is involved and space in which a lease contract executed by the office of administration is in effect.

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(L. 1982 H.B. 1196 § 101, A.L. 1989 H.B. 408, A.L. 1994 S.B. 763, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)


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