New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 1 - GENERAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 4 - STATE PROCUREMENT
Part 7 - SUSPENSION OR DEBARMENT OF BIDDERS, OFFERORS OR CONTRACTORS
Section 1.4.7.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. "Contractor" means any bidder, offeror or construction contractor, excluding contractors for professional services, who have been awarded or are seeking award of one or more contracts through the state purchasing agent under the provisions of the Procurement Code. "Contractor" includes individuals, joint ventures, corporations and all other business entities.
B. "Debarment" means a final order of the secretary that denies a contractor the right to bid or offer to enter into a contract, other than a contract for professional services, with the state purchasing agent. The period of debarment specified in an order of debarment shall be for no less than three months and for no more than three years. A debarment period shall begin on the day the contractor receives notice of the final order of debarment and shall automatically expire no later than the end of the term specified in the order.
C. "Hearing" means an examination (proceeding) of the issue before the hearing officer, whether the issues are of law or fact. When the hearing officer determines that the contested issues are only of law, the examination need not include oral argument of the parties or their counsel or an evidentiary proceeding.
D. "Participants to a debarment or suspension proceeding" means the state purchasing agent, user agency (if any) and contractor.
E. "Party" means the contractor who is the subject of a determination under Subsection A of 1.4.7.9 NMAC.
F. "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or other legal or commercial entity. As used in this rule, the terms "person", "bidder", "offeror" and "contractor" include principals, officers, directors, owners, partners and managers of the person, bidder, offeror or contractor.
G. "Procurement Code" means 13-1-28 through 13-1-199 NMSA 1978.
H. "Professional services" means the services of architects, archeologists, engineers, land surveyors, landscape architects, medical arts practitioners, scientists, management and systems analysts, certified public accountants, registered public accountants, lawyers, psychologists, planners, and researchers and persons and businesses providing similar services.
I. "Secretary" means the secretary of the general services department. The secretary is the governing authority of the state purchasing agent.
J. "State purchasing agent" means the director of the state purchasing division, general services department.
K. "Suspension" means a final order of the secretary that denies a contractor the right to bid or offer to enter into a contract, other than a contract for professional services, with the state purchasing agent. An order of suspension shall not exceed three months, provided that the suspension may be longer pursuant to Paragraph (3) of Subsection D of 1.4.7.9 NMAC. A period of suspension shall begin on the day the contractor receives notice of the final order of suspension and shall automatically expire no later than the end of the suspension specified in the order.
L. "Unsatisfactory performance" means a record of poor performance or default on one or more contracts for construction, services (other than professional services) or tangible personal property including, but not limited to, overshipments, undershipments, providing damaged or defective goods, making unauthorized substitutions, billing errors or service deficiencies. The term includes negligent or intentional failure, without good cause, to perform in accordance with the specifications or time limits provided in a contract, or a history of failure to perform or of poor performance in accordance with the terms of one or more contracts unless the failure to perform or the poor performance was caused by acts beyond the control of the contractor.
M. "User agency" means any state agency or agencies, including, but not limited to, departments, divisions, bureaus, boards, commissions and any other subdivision of the state of New Mexico that: