Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that when a State contract for data processing, hosting, or related services is to be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, an otherwise qualified bidder who will fulfill the contract by employing exclusively Illinois residents may be given a preference over other bidders unable or unwilling to do so, so long as the total contract price in the bid of the bidder who will employ exclusively Illinois residents is no more than 15% greater than the total contract price in the bid of the lowest responsible bidder who is unable or unwilling to do so.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1897 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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