Virginia SB 563: DGS; public posting of contract information on central electronic procurement.

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CHAPTER 179 

An Act to amend and reenact � 2.2-1110 of the Code of 
Virginia, relating to the Department of General Services; public posting of 
contract information on central electronic procurement system. 

[S 563] 

Approved March 6, 2020 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That � 2.2-1110 of the Code of Virginia is amended and 
reenacted as follows:

� 2.2-1110. Using agencies to purchase through Division of 
Purchases and Supply; exception.

A. Except as provided by � 2.2-2012 or otherwise directed and 
authorized by the Division or in the Code of Virginia, every authority, 
department, division, institution, officer, agency, and other unit of state 
government, hereinafter called the using agency, shall purchase through the 
Division all materials, equipment, supplies, printing and nonprofessional 
services of every description, whenever the whole or a part of the costs is to 
be paid out of the state treasury. The Division shall make such purchases in 
conformity with this article.

B. The Division shall maintain the Department of 
General Services' central electronic procurement system. At a minimum this 
procurement system shall provide for the purchase of goods and services, 
and the public posting of all Invitations to Bid, Requests for Proposal, 
sole source award notices, emergency award notices, awarded contracts and 
modifications thereto, and reports on purchases. All using agencies shall 
utilize the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement 
system as their purchasing system beginning at the point of requisitioning for 
all procurement actions, including but not limited to technology, 
transportation, and construction, unless otherwise authorized in writing by the 
Division. Where necessary to capture data in agency enterprise resource 
planning systems and to eliminate or avoid duplicate or manual data entry in 
such agency systems, using agencies shall integrate their enterprise resource 
planning systems with the Department of General Services' central electronic 
procurement system, unless otherwise authorized in writing by the Division or 
in accordance with the provisions of the Restructured Higher Education 
Financial and Administrative Operations Act (� 23.1-1000 et seq.).

Using agencies shall post on the Department of General 
Services' central electronic procurement website all Invitations to Bid, 
Requests for Proposal, sole source award notices, and emergency award 
notices, and awarded contracts and modifications thereto to ensure 
visibility and access to the Commonwealth's procurement opportunities on one 
website.

To increase transparency of governmental procurement 
activities, the Division shall direct all using agencies to conspicuously post 
on their respective homepages links to the Department of General Services' 
central electronic procurement system reports,