Oregon Statutes - Chapter 279B - Public Contracting - Public Procurements

279B.005 Definitions.
(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context or a specifically applicable definition requires otherwise: (a) �Invitation to bid� means all documents, whether attached...
279B.010 Policy.
In addition to the policy stated in ORS 279A.015, it is the policy of the State of Oregon that public contracting activities should: (1) Provide...
279B.015 Applicability.
Except as provided in ORS 279C.320, public contracting under this chapter is subject to ORS chapter 279A, but not ORS chapter 279C. [2003 c.794 §48a;...
279B.020 Maximum hours of labor on public contracts; holidays; exceptions; liability to workers; rules.
(1) When labor is employed by a contracting agency through a contractor, a person may not be required or permitted to labor more than 10...
279B.025 Procurement practices regarding recyclable and reusable goods.
All contracting agencies shall establish procurement practices that ensure, to the maximum extent economically feasible, the procurement of goods that may be recycled or reused...
279B.050 Methods of source selection.
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, a contracting agency shall award a public contract for goods or services by competitive sealed...
279B.055 Competitive sealed bidding.
(1) A contracting agency may solicit and award a public contract for goods or services, or may award multiple public contracts for goods or services...
279B.060 Competitive sealed proposals.
(1) A contracting agency may solicit and award a public contract for goods or services, or may award multiple public contracts for goods or services...
279B.065 Small procurements.
(1) Any procurement of goods or services not exceeding $5,000 may be awarded in any manner deemed practical or convenient by the contracting agency, including...
279B.070 Intermediate procurements.
(1) Any procurement of goods or services exceeding $5,000 but not exceeding $150,000 may be awarded in accordance with intermediate procurement procedures. A contract awarded...
279B.075 Sole-source procurements.
(1) A contracting agency may award a contract for goods or services without competition when the Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, the...
279B.080 Emergency procurements.
(1) The head of a contracting agency, or a person designated under ORS 279A.075, may make or authorize others to make emergency procurements of goods...
279B.085 Special procurements.
(1) As used in this section and ORS 279B.400: (a) �Class special procurement� means a contracting procedure that differs from the procedures described in ORS...
279B.100 Cancellation, rejection, delay of invitations for bids or requests for proposals.
(1) Any solicitation or procurement described in a solicitation may be canceled, or any or all bids or proposals may be rejected in whole or...
279B.110 Responsibility of bidders and proposers.
(1) The contracting agency shall prepare a written determination of nonresponsibility of a bidder or proposer if the bidder or proposer does not meet the...
279B.115 Qualified products lists.
(1) A contracting agency may develop and maintain a qualified products list in instances in which the testing or examination of goods before initiating a...
279B.120 Prequalification of prospective bidders and proposers.
(1) A contracting agency may prequalify prospective bidders or proposers to submit bids or proposals for public contracts to provide particular types of goods or...
279B.125 Application for prequalification.
(1) When a contracting agency permits or requires prequalification of bidders or proposers, a prospective bidder or proposer who wishes to prequalify shall submit a...
279B.130 Debarment of prospective bidders and proposers.
(1)(a) A contracting agency may debar a prospective bidder or proposer from consideration for award of the contracting agency�s contracts for the reasons listed in...
279B.135 Notice of intent to award.
At least seven days before the award of a public contract, unless the contracting agency determines that seven days is impractical under rules adopted under...
279B.140 Price agreements.
(1) A price agreement constitutes a firm offer by the contractor regardless of whether any order or purchase has been made or any performance has...
279B.145 Finality of determinations.
The determinations under ORS 279B.055 (3) and (7), 279B.060 (3) and (10), 279B.075, 279B.080, 279B.085 and 279B.110 (1) are final and conclusive unless they are...
279B.200 Definitions for ORS 279B.200 to 279B.240.
As used in ORS 279B.200 to 279B.240: (1) �Brand name or equal specification� means a specification that uses one or more manufacturers� names, makes, catalog...
279B.205 Specifications to encourage reasonable competition.
Consistent with ORS 279A.015, specifications must seek to promote optimal value and suitability for the purposes intended and to reasonably encourage competition in satisfying a...
279B.210 Policy; development of specifications.
It is the policy of the State of Oregon to encourage the development of clear, precise and accurate specifications in solicitations for public contracts. To...
279B.215 Brand name or equal specification; brand name specification.
(1)(a) A brand name or equal specification may be used when the use of a brand name or equal specification is advantageous to the contracting...
279B.220 Conditions concerning payment, contributions, liens, withholding.
Every public contract shall contain a condition that the contractor shall: (1) Make payment promptly, as due, to all persons supplying to the contractor labor...
279B.225 Condition concerning salvaging, recycling, composting or mulching yard waste material.
Every public contract for lawn and landscape maintenance shall contain a condition requiring the contractor to salvage, recycle, compost or mulch yard waste material at...
279B.230 Condition concerning payment for medical care and providing workers� compensation.
(1) Every public contract shall contain a condition that the contractor shall promptly, as due, make payment to any person, copartnership, association or corporation furnishing...
279B.235 Condition concerning hours of labor.
(1) Except as provided in subsections (3) to (6) of this section, every public contract subject to this chapter must contain a condition that a...
279B.240 Exclusion of recycled oils prohibited.
Every contracting agency shall revise its procedures and specifications for the procurement of lubricating oil and industrial oil to eliminate any exclusion of recycled oils...
279B.275 Purchase of goods containing recycled polyethylene material.
The Oregon Department of Administrative Services, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality, shall revise its procedures and specifications for state procurement of goods...
279B.280 Use of recycled products when economically feasible.
The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall review and work with state agencies to develop procurement specifications that encourage the use of recycled products whenever...
279B.400 Protests and judicial review of approvals of special procurements.
(1) Before seeking judicial review of the approval of a special procurement, a person must file a protest, in accordance with the rules adopted under...
279B.405 Protests and judicial review of solicitations.
(1) As used in this section: (a) �Brand name� means a brand name specification as defined in ORS 279B.200. (b) �Legally flawed� means that a...
279B.410 Protests of contract award.
(1) A bidder or proposer may protest the award of a public contract or a notice of intent to award a public contract, whichever occurs...
279B.415 Judicial review of protests of contract award.
(1) As used in this section, �bidder� includes a person who submits a proposal to a public contracting agency pursuant to a request for proposals....
279B.420 Judicial review of other violations.
(1) Any violation of ORS chapter 279A by a contracting agency for which no judicial remedy is otherwise provided by ORS chapter 279A, 279B or...
279B.425 Review of prequalification and debarment decisions.
(1) The procedure for appeal from the denial, revocation or revision of a prequalification under ORS 279B.125, or from a debarment under ORS 279B.130, shall...

Last modified: August 7, 2008