12-3-1004 - Purchases for other local governmental units. - Tennessee Statutes

12-3-1004. Purchases for other local governmental units.

(a)  Any municipality, county, utility district, or other local governmental unit of the state may, upon request, purchase supplies, equipment, and services for any other municipality, county, utility district, or other local governmental unit.

     (1)  The purchases shall be made on the same terms and under the same rules and regulations as regular purchases of the purchasing entity.

     (2)  The cost of the purchase shall be borne by local government for which the purchase was made.

     (3)  Where the local government making the request is required to advertise and receive bids, it shall be sufficient for those purposes that the purchasing entity comply only with its own purchasing requirements.

(b)  (1)  Any local education agency (LEA) may purchase equipment under the same terms of a legal bid initiated by any other LEA in Tennessee.

     (2)  (A)  Any LEA may purchase directly from a vendor the same equipment at the same price and under the same terms as provided in a contract for such equipment entered into by any other LEA.

          (B)  Any LEA which purchases equipment under the provisions of this subsection (b) shall directly handle payment, refunds, returns, and any other communications or requirements involved in the purchase of the equipment without involving the LEA which originated the contract. The originating LEA shall have no liability or responsibility for any purchases made by another LEA under a contract which the originating LEA negotiated and consummated.

[Acts 1984, ch. 765, § 7; 2003, ch. 228, § 1.]