(30 ILCS 500/Art. 25 heading)
ARTICLE 25
SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (EXCLUDING
PROFESSIONAL OR ARTISTIC)
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(30 ILCS 500/25-5)
Sec. 25-5.
Applicability.
All contracts for supplies and
services, excluding professional or artistic services, shall be procured
in accordance with the provisions of this Article.
(Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date - See Sec. 99-5.)
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(30 ILCS 500/25-10)
Sec. 25-10.
Authority.
State purchasing officers shall
have the authority to procure
supplies and services, except as that authority may be limited by
the chief procurement officer.
(Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date - See Sec. 99-5.)
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(30 ILCS 500/25-15)
Sec. 25-15.
Method of source selection.
(a) Competitive sealed bidding. Except as provided in
subsection (b) and Sections 20-20,
20-25, and 20-30,
all State
contracts for supplies and services shall be awarded by
competitive sealed bidding in accordance with
Section 20-10.
(b) Other methods. The chief procurement officer may establish by rule
(i) categories of purchases, including non-governmental joint purchases, that
may
be made without competitive sealed bidding and (ii) the most
competitive alternate method of source
selection that shall be used for each category of purchase.
(Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date - See Sec. 99-5.)
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(30 ILCS 500/25-30)
Sec. 25-30.
More favorable terms.
A supply or service
contract may include, if
determined by a State purchasing officer to be in the best
interests of the State, a clause
requiring that if more favorable terms are granted by the
contractor to any similar state or local
governmental agency in any state in a contemporaneous agreement
let under the same or similar
financial terms and circumstances for comparable supplies or
services, the more favorable terms
shall be applicable under the contract.
(Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date - See Sec. 99-5.)
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(30 ILCS 500/25-35)
Sec. 25-35.
Purchase of coal and postage stamps.
(a) Delivery of necessary supplies. To avoid interruption
or impediment of delivery
of necessary supplies, commodities, and coal, State purchasing
officers may make purchases of
or contracts for supplies and commodities after April 30 of a
fiscal year when delivery of the
supplies and commodities is to be made after June 30 of that
fiscal year and payment for which
is to be made from appropriations for the next fiscal year.
(b) Postage. All postage stamps purchased from State funds
must be perforated for
identification purposes. A General Assembly member may furnish
the U.S. Post Office with
a warrant so as to allow for the creation or continuation of a
bulk rate mailing fund in the name
of the General Assembly member or may furnish a postage meter
company or post office with
a warrant so as to facilitate the purchase of a postage meter and
its stamps. Any postage meter
so purchased must also contain a stamp that shall state
"Official State Mail".
(Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date - See Sec. 99-5.)
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(30 ILCS 500/25-45)
Sec. 25-45.
Energy conservation program.
State
purchasing officers may enter into
energy conservation program contracts that provide for utility
cost savings. The chief procurement officer shall
promulgate and adopt rules for the implementation of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date - See Sec. 99-5.)
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(30 ILCS 500/25-55)
Sec. 25-55.
Annual reports.
Every printed annual report
produced by a State agency
shall bear a statement indicating whether it was printed by the
State of Illinois or by contract
and indicating the printing cost per copy and the number of copies
printed. The Department
of Central Management Services shall prepare and submit to the
General Assembly on the fourth
Wednesday of January in each year a report setting forth with
respect to each State agency for
the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which
the report is filed the total
quantity of annual reports printed, the total cost, and the cost
per copy and the cost per page of the
annual report of the State agency printed during the calendar year
covered by the report.
(Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date - See Sec. 99-5.)
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(30 ILCS 500/25-60)
Sec. 25-60. Prevailing wage requirements.
(a) All services furnished
under service contracts of $2,000 or more or $200 or more per month and under
printing contracts shall be
subject to the following prevailing wage requirements:
(1) Not less than the general prevailing wage rate of
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(2) Whenever a collective bargaining agreement is in
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(b) As used in this Section, "services" means janitorial cleaning services,
window cleaning services, building and grounds services, site technician
services, natural resources services, food services, and security services.
"Printing"
means and includes all processes and operations involved in printing, including
but not limited to letterpress, offset, and gravure processes, the multilith
method, photographic or other duplicating process, the operations of
composition, platemaking, presswork, and binding, and the end products of those
processes, methods, and operations. As used in this Code "printing" does not
include photocopiers used in the course of normal business activities,
photographic equipment used for geographic mapping, or printed matter that is
commonly available to the general public from contractor inventory.
(c) The terms "general prevailing rate of hourly wages", "general prevailing
rate of wages", or "prevailing rate of wages" when used in this Section mean
the hourly cash wages plus fringe benefits for health and welfare, insurance,
vacations, and pensions paid generally, in the locality in which the work is
being performed, to employees engaged in work of a similar character.
(d) "Locality" shall have the meaning established by rule.
(e) This Section does not apply to services furnished under contracts for
professional or artistic services.
(f) This Section does not apply to vocational programs of training for
physically or mentally handicapped persons or to sheltered workshops for the
severely disabled.
(Source: P.A. 98-1076, eff. 1-1-15.)
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(30 ILCS 500/25-65)
Sec. 25-65. Contracts performed outside the United States.
Prior to contracting or as a requirement of solicitation of any State contracts for services as defined in Section 1-15.90, whichever is appropriate, potential contractors shall disclose in a statement of work where services will be performed under that contract, including any subcontracts, and whether any services under that contract, including any subcontracts, are anticipated to be performed outside the United States.
In awarding the contract or evaluating the bid or offer, the chief procurement officer may consider such disclosure and the economic impact to the State of Illinois and its residents.
If the chief procurement officer awards a contract to a vendor based upon disclosure that work will be performed in the United States and during the term of the contract the contractor or a subcontractor proceeds to shift work outside of the United States, the contractor shall be deemed in breach of contract, unless the chief procurement officer shall have first determined in writing that circumstances require the shift of work or that termination of the contract would not be in the State's best interest.
Nothing in this Section is intended to contravene any existing treaty, law, agreement, or regulation of the United States.
The chief procurement officer appointed pursuant to paragraph (4) of subsection (a) of Section 10-20 shall prepare and deliver to the General Assembly, no later than September 1, 2015, a report on the impact of outsourcing services for State agencies subject to the jurisdiction of the chief procurement officer. The report shall include the State's cost of procurement and shall identify those contracts where it was disclosed that services were provided outside of the United States, including a description and value of those services. Each State agency subject to the jurisdiction of the chief procurement officer appointed pursuant to paragraph (4) of subsection (a) of Section 10-20 must provide the chief procurement officer the information necessary to comply with this Section on or before June 1, 2015. The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly shall be satisfied by filing copies of the report in the manner provided by Section 3.1 of the General Assembly Organization Act.
(Source: P.A. 98-1076, eff. 1-1-15.)
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(30 ILCS 500/25-70)
Sec. 25-70. Electronic mail service; spam free. Electronic mail service providers that provide electronic mail service under State contracts awarded on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly must take measures reasonably designed to provide a service that is free of unsolicited electronic mail advertisements (sometimes known as "spam"). The electronic mail service provider is responsible for using software filters or other means to accomplish the requirements of this Section. In this Section, the terms "electronic mail service provider" and "unsolicited electronic mail advertisement" have the same meanings as those terms are defined in the Electronic Mail Act (815 ILCS 511/).
(Source: P.A. 94-413, eff. 1-1-06.)
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(30 ILCS 500/25-75)
Sec. 25-75. Purchase of motor vehicles.
(a) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, all gasoline-powered vehicles purchased from State funds must be flexible fuel vehicles. Beginning July 1, 2007, all gasoline-powered vehicles purchased from State funds must be flexible fuel or fuel efficient hybrid vehicles. For purposes of this Section, "flexible fuel vehicles" are automobiles or light trucks that operate on either gasoline or E-85 (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline) fuel and "Fuel efficient hybrid vehicles" are automobiles or light trucks that use a gasoline or diesel engine and an electric motor to provide power and gain at least a 20% increase in combined US-EPA city-highway fuel economy over the equivalent or most-similar conventionally-powered model.
(b) On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, any vehicle purchased from State funds that is fueled by diesel fuel shall be certified by the manufacturer to run on 5% biodiesel (B5) fuel.
(b-5) On and after January 1, 2016, 25% of vehicles, other than Department of Corrections vehicles, Secretary of State vehicles (except for mid-sized sedans), and Department of State Police patrol vehicles, purchased with State funds shall be vehicles fueled by electricity, compressed natural gas, liquid petroleum gas, or liquid natural gas.
(c) The Chief Procurement Officer may determine that certain vehicle procurements are exempt from this Section based on intended use or other reasonable considerations such as health and safety of Illinois citizens.
(Source: P.A. 98-442, eff. 1-1-14; 98-759, eff. 7-16-14.)
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(30 ILCS 500/25-80)
Sec. 25-80. Successor contractor. All service contracts shall include a clause requiring the bidder or offeror, in order to be considered a responsible bidder or offeror for the purposes of this Code, to certify to the purchasing agency (i) that it shall offer to assume the collective bargaining obligations of the prior employer, including any existing collective bargaining agreement with the bargaining representative of any existing collective bargaining unit or units performing substantially similar work to the services covered by the contract subject to its bid or offer, and (ii) that it shall offer employment to all employees currently employed in any existing bargaining unit performing substantially similar work that will be performed by the successor vendor.
This Section does not apply to heating and air conditioning service contracts, plumbing service contracts, and electrical service contracts.
(Source: P.A. 98-1076, eff. 1-1-15.)
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(30 ILCS 500/25-200)
Sec. 25-200. Proposed contracts; Procurement Policy Board. This Article is subject to Section 5-30 of this Code.
(Source: P.A. 93-839, eff. 7-30-04.)
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(30 ILCS 500/25-205)
Sec. 25-205. Procurement of health benefits for Medicare-primary members and their dependents. The Department of Central Management Services, in consultation with and subject to the approval of the Chief Procurement Officer, shall contract or make otherwise available a program of group health benefits for Medicare-primary members and their Medicare-primary dependents. The Director may procure a single contract or multiple contracts that provide a program of group health benefits that is comparable in stability and continuity of coverage, care, and services to the program of health benefits offered to other members and their dependents under the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. The Department of Central Management Services shall provide administrative support and provide consultation to assist with the procurement. The initial procurement is not subject to the provisions of this Code, except for Sections 20-60, 20-65, 20-70, and 20-160, and Article 50, provided that the Chief Procurement Officer may, in writing with justification, waive any certification required under Article 50.
(Source: P.A. 98-19, eff. 6-10-13.)
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