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45A.300 Cooperative purchasing.
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Any public purchasing unit may either participate in, sponsor, conduct, or
administer a cooperative purchasing agreement for the acquisition of any
supplies, services, or construction with any other public purchasing unit or
foreign purchasing activity, in accordance with an agreement entered into
between the participants. This cooperative purchasing may include, but is not
limited to, joint contracts between public purchasing units and access by local
public purchasing units to open-ended state public purchasing unit contracts.
Nothing in this code shall limit any public purchasing unit from selling to,
acquiring from, or using any property belonging to another public purchasing
unit or foreign purchasing activity independent of the requirements of KRS
45A.070 to 45A.180.
Nothing in this code shall limit or restrict any public purchasing unit from
entering into an agreement, independent of the requirements of KRS
45A.045(5) and KRS 45A.070 to 45A.165, with any other public purchasing unit
or foreign purchasing activity for the cooperative use of supplies or services.
Any public purchasing unit may enter into an agreement for the joint or
common use of warehousing facilities or the lease or common use of capital
equipment or facilities with any other public purchasing unit or a foreign
purchasing activity subject to the terms as may be agreed upon between the
parties.
Nothing in this code shall limit or restrict the ability of local school districts to
acquire supplies outside of the public purchasing agreements when the
supplies and equipment meeting the same specifications as the contract items
are available at a lower price elsewhere and the purchase does not exceed two
thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500).
Nothing in this code shall limit any public purchasing unit from receiving notice
of or accepting a price reduction on supplies or equipment when the supplies
or equipment are being offered by the vendor with whom a price agreement
has been made; the supplies or equipment are being offered in accordance
with all terms and conditions that are specified in the price agreement, except
those relating to price; and the price reduction is offered to all of the
participants in the price agreement. Public purchasing units may accept special
price reductions under this subsection even if the reduced price requires the
purchase of a specified quantity of units different from the quantity stated in the
original price agreement. Price reductions under this subsection shall not be
considered to permanently alter the price of the supplies or equipment under
the price agreement with the Commonwealth, except where the price
reductions are to be made permanent under the express terms of the price
agreement and where the purchasing agency which solicited the price
agreement determines that the enforcement of those terms serves the best
interest of the Commonwealth.
Effective:June 24, 2003
History: Amended 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 98, sec. 21, effective June 24, 2003. -Amended 1997 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 4, sec. 31, effective May 30,
1997. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 89, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. -Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 496, sec. 28, effective July 13, 1990. -- Created
1978 Ky. Acts ch. 110, sec. 60, effective January 1, 1980.
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