2021 New York Laws
COM - Economic Development Law
Article 4-C - Procurement Opportunities Newsletter
145 - Study and Report.

§  145.  Study  and  report. The state procurement council established
  pursuant to section one hundred sixty-one of the state finance  law,  in
  consultation  with  the  council  on  contracting  agencies  established
  pursuant to executive order  4.125  dated  May  twenty-second,  nineteen
  hundred  eighty-nine,  shall  study  and  report by September first, two
  thousand nine to the governor, the legislature and the director  of  the
  budget  with recommendations on implementation of a statewide electronic
  procurement opportunity notification system, including, but not  limited
  to:
1.  plans  and  a timetable for further integration of existing agency
  systems of bidder registration and procurement opportunity  notification
  with  the  procurement  opportunities newsletter established pursuant to
  this article;
2. electronic submission of bids and proposals; auctions  and  reverse
  auctions; electronic availability of plans and specifications;
3.  feasibility  of  using  open standards software applications for a
  statewide electronic procurement opportunity notification system;
4. costs and funding models for  a  statewide  electronic  procurement
  opportunity notification system;
5.  additional information to be included to increase the transparency
  and utility of the system, including without limitation, notices by  the
  comptroller of progress payments made to prime contractors, and minority
  and  women-owned  business  enterprises  utilization  plans  and waivers
  granted pursuant to article fifteen-A of the executive law.