43.19.533 - Purchases from entities serving or providing opportunities for disadvantaged or disabled persons -- Existing contracts not impaired -- Solicitation of vendors in good standing. - Washington Statutes

Purchases from entities serving or providing opportunities for disadvantaged or disabled persons — Existing contracts not impaired — Solicitation of vendors in good standing.

(1) Nothing in chapter 136, Laws of 2003 requires any state agency to take any action that interferes with or impairs an existing contract between any state agency and any other party, including but not limited to any other state agency.

     (2) Until December 31, 2009, except as provided under RCW 43.19.1906(2) for purchases up to three thousand dollars, RCW 43.19.534, and subsection (1) of this section, a state agency shall not purchase any product or service identified in the notice most recently disseminated by the department of general administration, as provided under *RCW 43.19.531(2)(b), from other than a vendor in good standing until the state agency has included in the solicitation process at least one vendor in good standing supplying the goods or service needed by the agency, unless no vendor in good standing supplying the goods or service needed by the agency is available.

[2005 c 204 § 4; 2003 c 136 § 5.]

Notes: *Reviser's note: RCW 43.19.531 expired December 31, 2009.