§ 145. Study and report. The state procurement council established
pursuant to section one hundred sixty-one of the state finance law, in
consultation with the council on contracting agencies established
pursuant to executive order 4.125 dated May twenty-second, nineteen
hundred eighty-nine, shall study and report by September first, two
thousand nine to the governor, the legislature and the director of the
budget with recommendations on implementation of a statewide electronic
procurement opportunity notification system, including, but not limited
to:

1. plans and a timetable for further integration of existing agency
systems of bidder registration and procurement opportunity notification
with the procurement opportunities newsletter established pursuant to
this article;

2. electronic submission of bids and proposals; auctions and reverse
auctions; electronic availability of plans and specifications;

3. feasibility of using open standards software applications for a
statewide electronic procurement opportunity notification system;

4. costs and funding models for a statewide electronic procurement
opportunity notification system;

5. additional information to be included to increase the transparency
and utility of the system, including without limitation, notices by the
comptroller of progress payments made to prime contractors, and minority
and women-owned business enterprises utilization plans and waivers
granted pursuant to article fifteen-A of the executive law.