73.17 - TARGETED SMALL BUSINESS PROCUREMENT GOALS -- PRELIMINARY PROCEDURES. - Iowa Statutes

73.17 TARGETED SMALL BUSINESS PROCUREMENT GOALS -- PRELIMINARY PROCEDURES. Quarterly the director of each agency and department of state government shall review the agency's or department's anticipated purchasing requirements. The directors shall notify the director of the department of economic development of their anticipated purchases and recommended procurements with unit quantities and total costs for procurement contracts designated to satisfy the targeted small business procurement goal not later than August 15 of each fiscal year and quarterly thereafter. The directors may divide the procurements so designated into contract award units of economically feasible production runs to facilitate offers or bids from targeted small businesses. In designating procurements intended to satisfy the targeted small business procurement goal, the directors may vary the included procurements so that a variety of goods and services produced by different targeted small businesses may be procured each year. The director of the department of economic development, in conjunction with the director of the department of management, shall review the information submitted and may require modifications from the agencies and departments. A community college or area education agency shall, on a quarterly basis, and a school district shall, on an annual basis, review the community college's, area education agency's, or school district's anticipated purchasing requirements. A community college, area education agency, or school district shall notify the department of education, which shall report to the department of economic development, of their anticipated purchases and recommended procurements with unit quantities and total costs for procurement contracts designated to satisfy the targeted small business procurement goal not later than August 15 of each fiscal year and quarterly thereafter, except that school districts shall report annually.          Section History: Recent Form 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 833; 90 Acts, ch 1156, § 7; 91 Acts, ch 267, §223 Referred to in § 8A.311, 10A.104, 11.46, 12E.12, 15.108, 97B.7A, 262.34A Purchases by regents institutions, §262.34A