New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Chapter 34 - LOCAL PUBLIC AND PUBLIC SCHOOL CONTRACTS LAWS
Subchapter 7 - COOPERATIVE PURCHASING
Section 5:34-7.2 - Definitions
The following words and terms, as used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Application" means the forms and all supporting documents for creation, amendment or renewal of a cooperative purchasing system.
"Commodity resale system" means a purchasing system in which a local contracting unit purchases either gasoline, diesel fuel, snow removal chemicals, public works materials and supplies, including road and roadway construction materials, or any other such materials as may be approved by the Director for its own consumption and then sells all or a portion thereof to another local contracting unit.
"Contracting unit" means any county; municipality; board of education; or any board, commission, committee, authority or agency, which is not a State board, commission or committee, authority or agency, and which has administrative jurisdiction over any district, project, or facility, included or operating in whole or in part within the territorial boundaries of any county or municipality which exercises functions which are appropriate for the exercise by one or more units of local government or board of education and which has statutory power to make purchases and enter into contracts awarded by a contracting agent for the provision or performance of goods or services.
"Cooperative pricing system" means a purchasing system in which a local contracting unit advertises for bids and awards a master contract to a successful vendor for its own quantities and the estimated quantities submitted by the individual registered members.
"Cooperative purchasing system" means a cooperative pricing system, joint purchasing system, commodity resale system, county cooperative contract purchasing system or regional cooperative pricing system which has been approved and registered pursuant to this subchapter.
"County cooperative contract purchasing system" means a cooperative purchasing system that shall only be formed by a county and in which the county advertises for bids and awards a contract to the successful vendor.
"Energy" means gas supply service or gas related service or electric generation service or electric related service as set forth in the Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act ( P.L. 1999, c. 23) and the Interim Government Energy Aggregation Program Standards promulgated by the Board of Public Utilities on June 24, 1999.
"Form CCCP-1917" means Request For Registration Or Modification of a County Cooperative Contract Purchasing System which contains the following information: action requested; name of the county cooperative contract purchasing system; name of contract, address, and phone number of lead agency; and certification of compliance with 40A:11-1 et seq.
"Form CP-2001" means Request For Registration Or Modification of a Cooperative Purchasing System which contains the following information: action requested; name of cooperative purchasing system; name of contact, address, and phone number of lead agency; name of participating contracting units affected by request; and certification of compliance with 40A:11-1 et seq. and 18A:18A-1 et seq., as appropriate.
"Form CP-2060" means a Request for Registration or Modification of a Commodity Resale System which contains the following information: action requested, identification of the lead agency (seller), participating contracting units (purchaser) and commodity being resold.
"Joint purchasing system" means a cooperative purchasing system in which the lead agency serves as the purchasing agent for the membership of the system with all of the duties and responsibilities attendant thereto. The lead agency advertises for bids and awards a single contract to a vendor providing for the payment to the contractor for its own needs and for the needs of the participating registered members of the system. The only contractual relationship is between the lead agency and the vendor.
"Lead agency" means the contracting unit which is responsible for the management of the cooperative purchasing system.
"Regional cooperative pricing system" means a cooperative pricing system composed of two or more registered cooperative pricing systems and their participating contracting units which have agreed to join together for the provision and performance of goods and services, including the purchase of energy.
"Registered member" means a contracting unit which has been approved by the Director for participation in a cooperative purchasing system.
"Snow removal chemicals" means snow grits, calcium chloride (rock salt), sand or similar substance used for deicing or improving vehicular traction on snow or ice covered roadways.
