General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 30B Uniform Procurement Act
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter - Chapter 30B, Section 1
(a) This chapter shall apply to every contract for the procurement of supplies, services or real property and for disposing of supplies or real property...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 30B, Section 2
As used in this chapter the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Architect and engineer”, (i) a person performing...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Procurement contracts; files - Chapter 30B, Section 3
[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2013. For text effective July 1, 2013, see below.]A procurement officer who awards a contract in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Submission of quotations - Chapter 30B, Section 4
[ Subsection (a) effective until July 1, 2013. For text effective July 1, 2013, see below.](a) Except as permitted pursuant to this section and section...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Competitive sealed bidding procedures - Chapter 30B, Section 5
(a) Except as permitted under section six or section eight, award of procurement contracts in the amount of $25,000 or more, other than contracts for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Competitive sealed proposals; requests for proposals; additional evaluation criteria - Chapter 30B, Section 6
(a) A chief procurement officer may enter into procurement contracts in the amount of $25,000 or more utilizing competitive sealed proposals, in accordance with the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Utilization of reverse auctions for the acquisition of supplies and services - Chapter 30B, Section 6A
(a) A chief procurement officer may enter into procurement contracts for $25,000 or more, utilizing reverse auctions for the acquisition of supplies and services. The...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sole source procurements - Chapter 30B, Section 7
(a) A procurement officer may award a contract in an amount of less than $25,000 or any contract for the procurement of library books, school...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency procurements - Chapter 30B, Section 8
Whenever the time required to comply with a requirement of this chapter would endanger the health or safety of the people or their property a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cancellation of invitation for bids; rejection of bids or proposals - Chapter 30B, Section 9
The procurement officer may cancel an invitation for bids, a request for proposals, or other solicitation, or may reject in whole or in part any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certification of good faith - Chapter 30B, Section 10
A person submitting a bid or a proposal for the procurement or disposal of supplies or services to any governmental body shall certify in writing,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Splitting of procurements - Chapter 30B, Section 11
No person shall cause or conspire to cause the splitting or division of any procurement, specification, invitation for bids, request for proposals, proposal, solicitation, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Term of contract; information to be included in solicitation; cancellation of contract - Chapter 30B, Section 12
(a) Unless otherwise provided by law and subject to paragraph (b), a governmental body may enter into a contract for any period of time which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Increase of services or supplies specified in contract - Chapter 30B, Section 13
The governmental body may increase the quantity of supplies or services or both specified in a contract provided: (1) the unit prices remain the same...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recycling or composting contracts; modifications and amendments - Chapter 30B, Section 13A
With respect to contracts for the recycling or composting of solid waste or the treatment, composting or disposal of sewage, septage or sludge authorized under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Specification requirements; proprietary supply or service and sole source procurement - Chapter 30B, Section 14
Unless no other manner of description suffices, and the procurement officer so determines in writing, setting forth the basis for the determination, all specifications shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tangible supply; disposition - Chapter 30B, Section 15
(a) A governmental body shall dispose of a tangible supply, no longer useful to the governmental body but having resale or salvage value, in accordance...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Real property; disposition or acquisition - Chapter 30B, Section 16
(a) If a governmental body duly authorized by general or special law to engage in such transaction determines that it shall rent, convey, or otherwise...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Writing requirement; invalidation of contracts; forfeiture; civil actions - Chapter 30B, Section 17
[ Subsection (a) effective until July 1, 2013. For text effective July 1, 2013, see below.](a) All contracts in the amount of five thousand dollars...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sheltered market programs - Chapter 30B, Section 18
(a) For purposes of this section the following phrases shall have the following meanings: “Disadvantaged vendor”, any business beneficially owned by one or more minority...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delegation of procurement officer’s powers and duties - Chapter 30B, Section 19
Subject to the provisions of section one hundred and three of chapter forty-one, to the extent permitted by charter or local by-law in a city...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Preference for products of agriculture grown or produced using products grown in commonwealth; governmental bodies - Chapter 30B, Section 20
(a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary and to the extent permitted by federal law, a governmental body may, by a majority...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2010, 112, Sec. 6 - Chapter 30B, Section 21
Repealed, 2010, 112, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cooperative purchasing agreements between public procurement units or public procurement unit and external procurement activity - Chapter 30B, Section 22
A public procurement unit may participate in, sponsor, conduct or administer a cooperative purchasing agreement for the procurement of supplies with public procurement units or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cooperative purchasing agreements between public procurement units or public procurement unit and external procurement activity - Chapter 30B, Section 23
A public procurement unit may participate in, sponsor, conduct or administer a cooperative purchasing agreement for the procurement of supplies with public procurement units or...
Last modified: September 11, 2015