Assembly Actions -
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May 30, 2012 |
referred to consumer protection |
Senate Bill S7511
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Consumer Protection Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2011-S7511 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A10528
- Current Committee:
- Senate Consumer Protection
- Law Section:
- General Municipal Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง103, Gen Muni L
- Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
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S2055, A5307
2011-S7511 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S7511 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the general municipal law, in relation to letting of certain contracts PURPOSE: The purpose of this legislation is authorize a pilot program for the Village of Port Chester and the City of New Rochelle to jointly conduct bidding for commodity, service and technology contracts electronically, and to conduct a limited number of reverse auctions for such municipal contracts. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: This bill would authorize the Village of Port Chester and City of New Rochelle to jointly conduct cooperative electronic bidding for commodity, service and technology contracts and reverse auctions for such contracts. No more than 50 contracts would be authorized for electronic bidding and no more than 20 electronic reverse auctions would be authorized between June 1, 2012 and March 31, 2016. Within thirty days of conducting the last auction the Chief Financial officers of Port Chester and New Rochelle would be required to submit a report to the respective legislatures assessing the use of electronic submissions and recommendations regarding the use of the
2011-S7511 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7511 I N S E N A T E May 30, 2012 ___________ Introduced by Sen. OPPENHEIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to letting of certain contracts THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 103 of the general municipal law, as amended by chapter 2 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows: 1. Except as otherwise expressly provided by an act of the legislature or by a local law adopted prior to September first, nineteen hundred fifty-three, all contracts for public work involving an expenditure of more than thirty-five thousand dollars and all purchase contracts involving an expenditure of more than twenty thousand dollars, shall be awarded by the appropriate officer, board or agency of a political subdivision or of any district therein including but not limited to a soil conservation district to the lowest responsible bidder furnishing the required security after advertisement for sealed bids in the manner provided by this section, provided, however, that purchase contracts (including contracts for service work, but excluding any purchase contracts necessary for the completion of a public works contract pursu- ant to article eight of the labor law) may be awarded on the basis of best value, as defined in section one hundred sixty-three of the state finance law, to a responsive and responsible bidder or offerer in the manner provided by this section except that in a political subdivision other than a city with a population of one million inhabitants or more or any district, board or agency with jurisdiction exclusively therein the use of best value for awarding a purchase contract or purchase contracts must be authorized by local law or, in the case of a district corporation, school district or board of cooperative educational services, by rule, regulation or resolution adopted at a public meeting. In any case where a responsible bidder's or responsible offerer's gross price is reducible by an allowance for the value of used machinery, equipment, apparatus or tools to be traded in by a political subdivi- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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