                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

USING AGENCIES TO PURCHASE THROUGH DIVISION OF PURCHASES AND SUPPLY; EXCEPTION
(§ 2.2-1110)

A. Except as provided by &#xA7; 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.

B. The Division shall maintain the Department of General Services&#8217; 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&#8217; 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&#8217; 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
(&#xA7; 23.1-1000 et seq.).
			Using agencies shall post on the Department of General Services&#8217;
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&#8217;s procurement opportunities on one website.
			To 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&#8217; central electronic
procurement system reports, thereby making them accessible to the public.

C. 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 (&#xA7; 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.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 2-249; 1958, c. 124; 1966, c. 677, § 2.1-273; 1977, c.
672, § 2.1-440; 1980, c. 357; 1988, c. 140; 1995, c. 788; 2001, c. 844; 2003,
cc. 981, 1021; 2011, c. 332; 2013, c. 493; 2020, cc. 47, 179.