2017 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 332 - Purchasing: Local Governments
NRS 332.025 - Other terms defined.

1. “Authorized representative” means a person designated by the governing body to be responsible for the development, award and proper administration of all purchases and contracts for a local government or a department, division, agency, board or unit of a local government made pursuant to this chapter.

2. “Chief administrative officer” means the person directly responsible to the governing body for the administration of that particular entity.

3. “Evaluator” means an authorized representative, officer, employee, representative, agent, consultant or member of a governing body who has participated in:

(a) The evaluation of bids;

(b) Negotiations concerning purchasing by a local government; or

(c) The review or approval of the award, modification or extension of a contract.

4. “Governing body” means the board, council, commission or other body in which the general legislative and fiscal powers of the local government are vested.

5. “Proprietary information” means:

(a) Any trade secret or confidential business information that is contained in a bid submitted to a governing body or its authorized representative on a particular contract; or

(b) Any other trade secret or confidential business information submitted to a governing body or its authorized representative by a bidder and designated as proprietary by the governing body or its authorized representative.

↪ As used in this subsection, “confidential business information” means any information relating to the amount or source of any income, profits, losses or expenditures of a person, including data relating to cost, price, or the customers of a bidder which is submitted in support of a bid. The term does not include the amount of a bid submitted to a governing body or its authorized representative.

6. “Trade secret” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 600A.030.

(Added to NRS by 1975, 1536; A 1985, 514; 1995, 1731; 2001, 1314)