Texas Administrative Code
Title 26 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Part 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
Chapter 301 - LOCAL AUTHORITY RESPONSIBILITIES
Subchapter A - CONTRACTS MANAGEMENT FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Section 301.5 - Definitions
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) Application--Documents prepared by a respondent in response to a request for applications.
(2) Best value--The optimum combination of economy and quality that is the result of fair, efficient, and practical procurement decision-making and which achieves the following objectives:
(3) Business entity--A sole proprietorship, partnership, firm, corporation, holding company, joint-stock company, receivership, trust, or any other entity recognized by law.
(4) Consumer--A person in the priority population or otherwise designated in the performance contract as eligible for community services.
(5) Contract--A written agreement, including a purchase order, between a local authority and a business entity that obligates the entity to provide goods or services in exchange for money or other valuable consideration.
(6) Contract management--Initiating, procuring, awarding, monitoring, and enforcing a contract.
(7) Contract term--The period of time during which a contract is in effect, identified by a starting and ending date.
(8) Contractor--A business entity that has a contract for goods or services with a local authority.
(9) Goods--Tangible personal property and intellectual property.
(10) Intellectual property--Any intangible asset that consists of human knowledge and ideas (e.g., software).
(11) Local authority--An entity designated by the TDMHMR commissioner in accordance with the Texas Health and Safety Code, § 533.035(a).
(12) Local service area--A geographic area composed of one or more Texas counties delimiting the population which may receive community services from a local authority.
(13) Participated--To have taken action as an officer or employee through decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation, giving advice, investigation, or similar action.
(14) Particular matter--A specific investigation, application, request for a ruling or determination, proceeding related to the development of policy, contract, claim, charge, accusation, arrest, or judicial or other proceeding.
(15) Performance contract--The contract between TDMHMR and a local authority in which TDMHMR agrees to pay the local authority a specified sum and in which the local authority agrees to provide local match, for, at a minimum, ensuring and/or monitoring the provision of specified mental health and mental retardation services in a local service area.
(16) Priority population--Those groups of persons with mental illness and mental retardation identified in TDMHMR's current strategic plan as being most in need of mental health and mental retardation services.
(17) Proposal--Documents prepared by a respondent in response to a request for proposals.
(18) Respondent--A business entity that submits an oral, written, or electronic response to a solicitation. The term is intended to include "applicant," "offeror," "proposer," and other similar terminology to describe a business entity that responds to a solicitation.
(19) Response--An oral, written, or electronic "offer," "proposal," "quote," "application," or other applicable expression of interest to a solicitation.
(20) Services--
(21) Solicitation--A notification of the local authority's intent to purchase community services (e.g., request for proposals and request for applications).
(22) TDMHMR--The Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.
