Amd 142, Ec Dev L (as proposed in S.1878-B & A.4913-A)
Relates to including information relating to the individual or business enterprise that has been awarded an identical or substantially similar procurement contract in certain notices of procurement contract opportunities; provides that for multiple award contracts, a link may be provided to a publicly accessible website that includes such information.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A8696
SPONSOR: Zebrowski TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the economic development law, in relation to including
the name of the individual or business enterprise that has been awarded
an identical or substantially similar procurement contract in certain
notices of procurement contract opportunities
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
The purpose of this bill is to make changes to Chapter 662 of the Laws
of 2021.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
This bill makes clarification that when there is a multiple award
contract the agency may provide a link to a website that lists the iden-
tical or similar contract rather than reporting all awardees.
JUSTIFICATION:
Under current law, there is no requirement for the contracting agency to
disclose the identity of an incumbent of a contract in the procurement
opportunities newsletter. This bill would increase transparency in the
procurement process by providing information on the current vendor.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as a
chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the economic development law relat-
ing to including the name of the individual or business enterprise that
has been awarded an identical or substantially similar procurement
contract in certain notices of procurement contract opportunities, as
proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 1878-B and A.4913-A, takes
effect.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8696
IN ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation to including
the name of the individual or business enterprise that has been
awarded an identical or substantially similar procurement contract in
certain notices of procurement contract opportunities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 142 of the
2 economic development law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2021
3 amending the economic development law relating to including the name of
4 the individual or business enterprise that has been awarded an identical
5 or substantially similar procurement contract in certain notices of
6 procurement contract opportunities, as proposed in legislative bills
7 numbers S. 1878-B and A. 4913-A, is amended to read as follows:
8 (c) for all other procurement contracts issued by agencies (i) the
9 name of the contracting agency; (ii) the contract identification number;
10 (iii) a brief description of the goods or services sought, the location
11 where goods are to be delivered or services provided and the contract
12 term; (iv) the address where bids or proposals are to be submitted; (v)
13 the date when bids or proposals are due; (vi) a description of any
14 eligibility or qualification requirement or preference; (vii) a state-
15 ment as to whether the contract requirements may be fulfilled by a
16 subcontracting, joint venture, or co-production arrangement; (viii) any
17 other information deemed useful to potential contractors; (ix) the name,
18 address, and telephone number of the person to be contacted for addi-
19 tional information; (x) a statement as to whether the goods or services
20 sought had in the immediately preceding three year period been supplied
21 by a foreign business enterprise; and (xi) the name of any individual or
22 business enterprise that has been awarded an identical or substantially
23 similar procurement contract as determined by the contracting agency,
24 within the past five years; provided, however, that in the case of
25 multiple award contracts only, the contracting agency may provide a link
26 to a publicly accessible website listing the information required pursu-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ant to this subparagraph. Such link shall be exclusive to each multiple
2 award contract.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
4 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the economic develop-
5 ment law relating to including the name of the individual or business
6 enterprise that has been awarded an identical or substantially similar
7 procurement contract in certain notices of procurement contract opportu-
8 nities, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 1878-B and A.
9 4913-A, takes effect.
