Bill Text: NY A01440 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the New York city school construction authority to award certain contracts for goods or services to minority- or women-owned businesses without a competitive bidding process.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A01440 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01440-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1440 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing the New York City school construction authority to award certain contracts to minority or women-owned businesses without a competitive bidding process The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 8 of section 1734 of the public authori- 2 ties law, as added by chapter 738 of the laws of 1988, are amended to 3 read as follows: 4 2. a. Except as otherwise provided in this section, all purchase 5 contracts for supplies, materials or equipment involving an estimated 6 expenditure in excess of ten thousand dollars and all contracts for 7 public work involving an estimated expenditure in excess of fifty thou- 8 sand dollars shall be awarded by the authority to the lowest responsible 9 bidder after obtaining sealed bids in the manner hereinafter set forth, 10 provided however that the authority may enter into contracts for 11 supplies, materials, equipment or public work for amounts not exceeding 12 one hundred fifty thousand dollars from businesses certified as minority 13 or women-owned business enterprises pursuant to section seventeen 14 hundred forty-three of this title or from locally based enterprises with 15 bidders or offerers that are not the lowest responsible bidder or offer- 16 er, and without obtaining sealed bids in the manner hereinafter set 17 forth. For purposes hereof, contracts for public work shall exclude 18 contracts for personal, engineering and architectural, or professional 19 services. 20 b. The authority may reject all bids and obtain new bids in the manner 21 provided by this section when it deems it in the public interest to do 22 so or, in cases where two or more responsible bidders submit identical 23 bids which are the lowest bids, award the contract to any of such EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00307-01-9A. 1440 2 1 bidders or obtain new bids from such bidders. Nothing herein shall obli- 2 gate the authority to seek new bids after the rejection of bids or after 3 cancellation of an invitation to bid. Nothing in this section shall 4 prohibit the evaluation of bids on the basis of costs or savings includ- 5 ing life cycle costs of the item to be purchased, discounts, and 6 inspection services so long as the invitation to bid reasonably sets 7 forth the criteria to be used in evaluating such costs or savings. Life 8 cycle costs may include but shall not be limited to costs or savings 9 associated with installation, energy use, maintenance, operation and 10 salvage or disposal. 11 8. [The] Except for contracts not exceeding one hundred fifty thousand 12 dollars awarded to businesses certified as minority or women-owned busi- 13 ness enterprises pursuant to section seventeen hundred forty-three of 14 this title, the authority shall be subject to the provisions of section 15 twenty-eight hundred seventy-nine of this chapter in awarding contracts 16 for personal services. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to 18 procurements occurring on or after such effective date.
