New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 17 - TREASURY - GENERAL
Chapter 12 - DIVISION OF PURCHASE AND PROPERTY: PROCUREMENT BUREAU; CONTRACT COMPLIANCE AND AUDIT UNIT; AND DISTRIBUTION SUPPORT SERVICES UNIT
Subchapter 1A - PROCUREMENT METHODOLOGY
Section 17:12-1A.1 - Advertised procurements
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) Except as provided in this subchapter, all procurements shall be effected through advertised procurement procedures.
(b) The Director shall structure RFPs to provide for a single contract award to a single bidder, unless contract awards to multiple bidders are permitted as herein after provided in this subchapter.
(c) The Director may structure an RFP to include multiple lines encompassing more than one commodity, group of commodities, service or group of services, with separate contract awards for each price line or grouping of price lines.
(d) Pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 52:34-12.1, the Director may structure an RFP to provide for awards to multiple bidders to meet the anticipated needs of State agencies and, if the State contracts are to be extended to cooperative purchasing participants pursuant to N.J.A.C. 17:12-2.3, the anticipated needs of cooperative purchasing participants, based upon one or more of the following criteria:
(e) The Division's record of each contract procurement conducted under the provisions of (d) above shall document the reason(s) for the multiple contract award structure.
(f) All advertised procurements shall be conducted pursuant to the provisions of N.J.A.C. 17:12-2.