12-3-502 - Specifications to permit competitive bidding. - Tennessee Statutes

12-3-502. Specifications to permit competitive bidding.

Wherever possible, all specifications for materials, supplies and equipment to be purchased by the state of Tennessee or any of its departments, institutions, or agencies shall be worded or designed so as to permit open and competitive bidding for the supplying of the article or commodities to which they apply; and all proprietary specifications shall be developed in accordance with rules of the department approved by the board of standards.

[Acts 1953, ch. 163, § 27 (Williams, § 370.36); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 12-305, 12-3-205; Acts 1981, ch. 332, § 3; 1987, ch. 337, § 19.]