Bill Text: NY A09744 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
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) 2016-04-05 - referred to local governments [A09744 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A09744-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9744 IN ASSEMBLY April 5, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- 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 25 Reporter website before the bid opening deadline. For the purpose of 26 calculating the number of days, the first day the request for bids is 27 posted online may not be counted but the day of the bid opening may be EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14791-01-6