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The Division shall make such purchases in conformity with this article.B\n\nThe Division shall maintain the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement system. At a minimum this procurement system shall provide for the purchase of goods and services and the public posting of all Invitations to Bid, Requests for Proposal, sole source award notices, emergency award notices, awarded contracts and modifications thereto, and reports on purchases. All using agencies shall utilize the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement system as their purchasing system beginning at the point of requisitioning for all procurement actions, including but not limited to technology, transportation, and construction, unless otherwise authorized in writing by the Division. Where necessary to capture data in agency enterprise resource planning systems and to eliminate or avoid duplicate or manual data entry in such agency systems, using agencies shall integrate their enterprise resource planning systems with the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement system, unless otherwise authorized in writing by the Division or in accordance with the provisions of the Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act (§ 23.1-1000 et seq.).\n\t\t\tUsing agencies shall post on the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement website all Invitations to Bid, Requests for Proposal, sole source award notices, emergency award notices, and awarded contracts and modifications thereto to ensure visibility and access to the Commonwealth’s procurement opportunities on one website.\n\t\t\tTo increase transparency of governmental procurement activities, the Division shall direct all using agencies to conspicuously post on their respective homepages links to the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement system reports, thereby making them accessible to the public.C\n\nThe provisions of subsection A shall not apply to the purchase of materials, equipment, supplies, printing and nonprofessional services of every description by the Virginia Retirement System; however, the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System shall adopt regulations made in accordance with the Virginia Public Procurement Act (§ 2.2-4300 et seq.) that specify policies and procedures that are based on competitive principles and that are generally applicable to procurement of such goods and services by comparably situated state agencies. The exemption provided by this subsection shall apply for only as long as such regulations, or other regulations meeting the requirements of this subsection, remain in effect at the Virginia Retirement System.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":203939,"text":"Except as provided by § 2.2-2012 or otherwise directed and authorized by the Division or in the Code of Virginia, every authority, department, division, institution, officer, agency, and other unit of state government, hereinafter called the using agency, shall purchase through the Division all materials, equipment, supplies, printing and nonprofessional services of every description, whenever the whole or a part of the costs is to be paid out of the state treasury. The Division shall make such purchases in conformity with this article.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":203940,"text":"The Division shall maintain the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement system. At a minimum this procurement system shall provide for the purchase of goods and services and the public posting of all Invitations to Bid, Requests for Proposal, sole source award notices, emergency award notices, awarded contracts and modifications thereto, and reports on purchases. All using agencies shall utilize the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement system as their purchasing system beginning at the point of requisitioning for all procurement actions, including but not limited to technology, transportation, and construction, unless otherwise authorized in writing by the Division. Where necessary to capture data in agency enterprise resource planning systems and to eliminate or avoid duplicate or manual data entry in such agency systems, using agencies shall integrate their enterprise resource planning systems with the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement system, unless otherwise authorized in writing by the Division or in accordance with the provisions of the Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act (§ 23.1-1000 et seq.).\n\t\t\tUsing agencies shall post on the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement website all Invitations to Bid, Requests for Proposal, sole source award notices, emergency award notices, and awarded contracts and modifications thereto to ensure visibility and access to the Commonwealth’s procurement opportunities on one website.\n\t\t\tTo increase transparency of governmental procurement activities, the Division shall direct all using agencies to conspicuously post on their respective homepages links to the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement system reports, thereby making them accessible to the public.","type":"section","prefixes":["B"],"prefix":"B","entire_prefix":"B","prefix_anchor":"B","level":1,"prior_prefix":"A","next_prefix":"C"},"2":{"id":203941,"text":"The provisions of subsection A shall not apply to the purchase of materials, equipment, supplies, printing and nonprofessional services of every description by the Virginia Retirement System; however, the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System shall adopt regulations made in accordance with the Virginia Public Procurement Act (§ 2.2-4300 et seq.) that specify policies and procedures that are based on competitive principles and that are generally applicable to procurement of such goods and services by comparably situated state agencies. The exemption provided by this subsection shall apply for only as long as such regulations, or other regulations meeting the requirements of this subsection, remain in effect at the Virginia Retirement System.","type":"section","prefixes":["C"],"prefix":"C","entire_prefix":"C","prefix_anchor":"C","level":1,"prior_prefix":"B"}},"ancestry":[{"id":14301,"edition_id":1,"name":"Division of Purchases and Supply","identifier":"3","label":"article","depth":5,"order_by":1,"parent_id":13186,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:47:39","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:47:39","permalink":{"id":172503,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":14301,"identifier":"3","token":"2.2\/I\/C\/11\/3","url":"\/2.2\/I\/C\/11\/3\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":13186,"edition_id":1,"name":"Department of General Services","identifier":"11","label":"chapter","depth":4,"order_by":1,"parent_id":13092,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:44:25","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:44:25","permalink":{"id":172461,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13186,"identifier":"11","token":"2.2\/I\/C\/11","url":"\/2.2\/I\/C\/11\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":13092,"edition_id":1,"name":"State Agencies Related to the General Operation of Government","identifier":"C","label":"part","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12784,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:44:16","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:44:16","permalink":{"id":172453,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13092,"identifier":"C","token":"2.2\/I\/C","url":"\/2.2\/I\/C\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12784,"edition_id":1,"name":"Organization of State Government","identifier":"I","label":"subtitle","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12749,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:53","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:53","permalink":{"id":171455,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12784,"identifier":"I","token":"2.2\/I","url":"\/2.2\/I\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12749,"edition_id":1,"name":"Administration of Government","identifier":"2.2","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","permalink":{"id":171453,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12749,"identifier":"2.2","token":"2.2","url":"\/2.2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":60312,"structure_id":14301,"section_number":"2.2-1109","catch_line":"Division of Purchases and Supply established","url":"\/2.2-1109\/","token":"2.2\/I\/C\/11\/3\/2.2-1109","metadata":false},{"id":55634,"structure_id":14301,"section_number":"2.2-1110","catch_line":"Using agencies to purchase through Division of Purchases and Supply; 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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\u2019t available online. It has been modified 11 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1958, chapter 124; in 1966, chapter 677; in 1977, chapter 672; in 1980, chapter 357; in 1988, chapter 140; in 1995, chapter 788<\/a>; in 2001, chapter 844<\/a>; in 2003, chapters 981<\/a> and 1021<\/a>; in 2011, chapter 332<\/a>; in 2013, chapter 493<\/a>; in 2020, chapters 47<\/a> and 179<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":60269,"section_number":"2.2-4304","catch_line":"Joint and cooperative procurement","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-4304\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":74110,"section_number":"2.2-2012","catch_line":"Additional powers and duties related to the procurement of information technology","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-2012\/"},{"id":70034,"section_number":"2.2-4300","catch_line":"Short title; purpose; declaration of intent","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-4300\/"},{"id":84746,"section_number":"23.1-1000","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/23.1-1000\/"}],"permalink":{"id":172509,"object_type":"law","relational_id":55634,"identifier":"2.2-1110","token":"2.2\/I\/C\/11\/3\/2.2-1110","url":"\/2.2-1110\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/2.2-1110\/","token":"2.2\/I\/C\/11\/3\/2.2-1110","dublin_core":{"Title":"Using agencies to purchase through Division of Purchases and Supply; exception","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 2.2-1110","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> Except as provided by § 2.2-2012<\/a> or otherwise directed and authorized by the Division or in the Code of Virginia, every authority, department, division, institution, officer, agency, and other unit of state government, hereinafter called the using agency, shall purchase through the Division all materials<\/span>, equipment, supplies, printing and nonprofessional services of every description, whenever the whole or a part of the costs is to be paid out of the state treasury. The Division shall make such purchases in conformity with this article. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> The Division shall maintain the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement system. At a minimum this procurement system shall provide for the purchase of goods and services and the public posting of all Invitations to Bid, Requests for Proposal, sole source award notices, emergency award notices, awarded contracts<\/span> and modifications thereto, and reports on purchases. All using agencies shall utilize the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement system as their purchasing system beginning at the point of requisitioning for all procurement actions, including but not limited to technology, transportation, and construction, unless otherwise authorized in writing by the Division. Where necessary to capture data in agency enterprise resource planning systems and to eliminate or avoid duplicate or manual data entry in such agency systems, using agencies shall integrate their enterprise resource planning systems with the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement system, unless otherwise authorized in writing by the Division or in accordance with the provisions of the Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act (§ 23.1-1000<\/a> et seq.).\n\t\t\tUsing agencies shall post on the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement website all Invitations to Bid, Requests for Proposal, sole source award notices, emergency award notices, and awarded contracts<\/span> and modifications thereto to ensure visibility and access to the Commonwealth’s procurement opportunities on one website.\n\t\t\tTo increase transparency of governmental procurement activities, the Division shall direct all using agencies to conspicuously post on their respective homepages links to the Department of General Services’ central electronic procurement system reports, thereby making them accessible to the public. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> The provisions of subsection A shall not apply to the purchase of materials<\/span>, equipment, supplies, printing and nonprofessional services of every description by the Virginia Retirement System; however, the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System shall adopt regulations made in accordance with the Virginia Public Procurement Act (§ 2.2-4300<\/a> et seq.) that specify policies and procedures that are based on competitive principles and that are generally applicable to procurement of such goods and services by comparably situated state agencies. The exemption provided by this subsection shall apply for only as long as such regulations, or other regulations meeting the requirements of this subsection, remain in effect at the Virginia Retirement System. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nUSING AGENCIES TO PURCHASE THROUGH DIVISION OF PURCHASES AND SUPPLY; EXCEPTION\n(\u00a7 2.2-1110)\n\nA. Except as provided by § 2.2-2012 or otherwise directed and authorized by\nthe Division or in the Code of Virginia, every authority, department, division,\ninstitution, officer, agency, and other unit of state government, hereinafter\ncalled the using agency, shall purchase through the Division all materials,\nequipment, supplies, printing and nonprofessional services of every description,\nwhenever the whole or a part of the costs is to be paid out of the state\ntreasury. The Division shall make such purchases in conformity with this\narticle.\n\nB. The Division shall maintain the Department of General Services’ central\nelectronic procurement system. At a minimum this procurement system shall\nprovide for the purchase of goods and services and the public posting of all\nInvitations to Bid, Requests for Proposal, sole source award notices, emergency\naward notices, awarded contracts and modifications thereto, and reports on\npurchases. All using agencies shall utilize the Department of General\nServices’ central electronic procurement system as their purchasing system\nbeginning at the point of requisitioning for all procurement actions, including\nbut not limited to technology, transportation, and construction, unless\notherwise authorized in writing by the Division. Where necessary to capture data\nin agency enterprise resource planning systems and to eliminate or avoid\nduplicate or manual data entry in such agency systems, using agencies shall\nintegrate their enterprise resource planning systems with the Department of\nGeneral Services’ central electronic procurement system, unless otherwise\nauthorized in writing by the Division or in accordance with the provisions of\nthe Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act\n(§ 23.1-1000 et seq.).\n\t\t\tUsing agencies shall post on the Department of General Services’\ncentral electronic procurement website all Invitations to Bid, Requests for\nProposal, sole source award notices, emergency award notices, and awarded\ncontracts and modifications thereto to ensure visibility and access to the\nCommonwealth’s procurement opportunities on one website.\n\t\t\tTo increase transparency of governmental procurement activities, the Division\nshall direct all using agencies to conspicuously post on their respective\nhomepages links to the Department of General Services’ central electronic\nprocurement system reports, thereby making them accessible to the public.\n\nC. The provisions of subsection A shall not apply to the purchase of materials,\nequipment, supplies, printing and nonprofessional services of every description\nby the Virginia Retirement System; however, the Board of Trustees of the\nVirginia Retirement System shall adopt regulations made in accordance with the\nVirginia Public Procurement Act (§ 2.2-4300 et seq.) that specify policies\nand procedures that are based on competitive principles and that are generally\napplicable to procurement of such goods and services by comparably situated\nstate agencies. The exemption provided by this subsection shall apply for only\nas long as such regulations, or other regulations meeting the requirements of\nthis subsection, remain in effect at the Virginia Retirement System.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 2-249; 1958, c. 124; 1966, c. 677, \u00a7 2.1-273; 1977, c.\n672, \u00a7 2.1-440; 1980, c. 357; 1988, c. 140; 1995, c. 788; 2001, c. 844; 2003,\ncc. 981, 1021; 2011, c. 332; 2013, c. 493; 2020, cc. 47, 179.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}