Bill Text: NY A01831 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "local government procurement modernization and transparency act" to modernize and increase the transparency of local government procurement of goods and services; allows a political subdivision to provide notice of requests for bids by posting the requests on the New York state contract reporter website; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to local governments [A01831 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01831-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1831
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 17, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. MAGNARELLI, HUNTER -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in  relation  to  modernizing
          and  increasing  the  transparency  of local government procurement of
          goods and services
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "local government procurement modernization and transparency act".
     3    § 2. Section 103 of the general municipal law is amended by  adding  a
     4  new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
     5    17.  (a) As an alternative to the notice procedure set forth in subdi-
     6  vision two of this section, a political subdivision may  provide  notice
     7  of  requests  for  bids  by posting the   requests on the New York State
     8  Contract Reporter website.  In  addition,  the  municipality  must  post
     9  notice  of  requests  for  bids on a website maintained by the political
    10  subdivision itself. Before  a  political  subdivision  may  utilize  the
    11  online  notification  method outlined in this subdivision, the political
    12  subdivision must adopt a local law which provides that all requests  for
    13  bids  will  be posted online pursuant to the procedures outlined in this
    14  subdivision. After a political subdivision adopts a local  law  pursuant
    15  to  this paragraph, notice of the local law's adoption must be published
    16  once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circu-
    17  lation within the political subdivision. In addition, a political subdi-
    18  vision must continuously and conspicuously  post  on  its  website  that
    19  notices  of  requests  for  bids  are  posted  online with a link to the
    20  webpage where current and previous requests for bids have been posted.
    21    (b) Once a political subdivision has designated the online bid notifi-
    22  cation process as the method for requesting bids, each request for  bids
    23  must  be  continuously posted for at least five consecutive days on both
    24  the political subdivision's website and  the  New  York  State  Contract
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00649-01-9
        A. 1831                             2
     1  Reporter  website  before  the  bid opening deadline. For the purpose of
     2  calculating the number of days, the first day the request  for  bids  is
     3  posted  online  may not be counted but the day of the bid opening may be
     4  counted. The website posting must include the bid specifications, unless
     5  it  is infeasible to post the bid specifications on the website in which
     6  case a summary of the request for bids must  be  posted  online  with  a
     7  statement  that  the  complete  bid  specifications are available in the
     8  office of the clerk of the political subdivision.  The  website  posting
     9  must  also include a statement indicating the address to which bids must
    10  be delivered and a statement of the date, time, and place where the bids
    11  will be publicly opened and read.
    12    (c) Nothing in this subdivision precludes a political subdivision from
    13  publicizing notices of a request for bids in other manners  in  addition
    14  to the methods outlined in this subdivision. Nothing in this subdivision
    15  precludes  a  newspaper  from  publishing  information of its own accord
    16  regarding any political subdivision's notice  of  request  for  bids  or
    17  request for proposals.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.