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S08385 Summary:

BILL NOS08385 

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Amd §163, St Fin L; amd §2879, Pub Auth L

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Relates to establishing protest procedures on contracts rewarded by state agencies and how such protests may be resolved.

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BILL NOS08385 

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06/06/2025REFERRED TO RULES

06/12/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1933

06/12/2025PASSED SENATE

06/12/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/12/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS

06/04/2026COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/04/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1731

06/04/2026PASSED SENATE

06/04/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/04/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8385

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 June 6, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- (at request of the State Comptroller) --
 read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
 the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the public authorities law, in
 relation to protest procedures

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 163 of the state finance law is
 2 amended by adding six new paragraphs l, m, n, o, p and q to read as
 3 follows:
 4 l. "Bidder" means an individual, entity or other offeror submitting a
 5 response to a solicitation by a state agency, as defined in this chap-
 6 ter.
 7 m. "Contract award" means a written determination from a state agency
 8 to a bidder indicating that the state agency has selected a particular
 9 bidder under the procurement process.
 10 n. "Interested party" means a participant in the procurement process,
 11 and those who can establish that their participation in the procurement
 12 process was foreclosed by the actions of the state agency and have
 13 suffered harm as a result of the manner in which the procurement was
 14 conducted.
 15 o. "Protest" means a written challenge by an interested party of a
 16 contract award by a state agency.
 17 p. "Solicitation" means a document issued by a state agency, request-
 18 ing a response to a procurement need, including an invitation for bids,
 19 a request for proposals, or another written method of seeking a bid or a
 20 proposal for a specified purpose.
 21 q. "Protest procedure" means the guidance developed and implemented by
 22 every state agency pursuant to the provisions of this section to govern
 23 the protest of a contract award.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06355-01-5

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 1 § 2. Section 163 of the state finance law is amended by adding a new
 2 subdivision 16 to read as follows:
 3 16. State agency protest. Every state agency shall make available
 4 protest procedures to interested parties and provide notice of their
 5 protest procedures in solicitation documents, and all bidders shall be
 6 given written notice of the contract award. At a minimum, protest proce-
 7 dures shall include:
 8 a. the form and manner for submission of a bid protest;
 9 b. the deadline for submission of a bid protest; which shall be either
 10 ten business days from notice of the contract award or five business
 11 days from the debriefing, whichever is later;
 12 c. the manner in which the bid protest will be resolved, and a deter-
 13 mination will be issued; and
 14 d. a retention policy for all records related to bid protests.
 15 § 3. Subdivision 9 of section 2879 of the public authorities law, as
 16 renumbered by chapter 844 of the laws of 1992, is renumbered subdivision
 17 10 and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as follows:
 18 9. (a) In addition to the procurement contract guidelines required by
 19 this section, every corporation shall make available protest procedures
 20 to interested parties and provide notice of their protest procedures in
 21 s