Texas Local Government Code Title 8, Chapter 252 - Purchasing And Contracting Authority Of Municipalities

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 252.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Bond funds" includes money in the treasury received from the sale of bonds and includes the proceeds of bonds that have...
• Texas Section 252.002 - Municipal Charter Controls In Case Of Conflict
  Any provision in the charter of a home-rule municipality that relates to the notice of contracts, advertisement of the notice, requirements for the taking of...

SUBCHAPTER B COMPETITIVE BIDDING OR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS REQUIRED

• Texas Section 252.003 - Application Of Other Law
  The purchasing requirements of Section 361.426, Health and Safety Code, apply to municipal purchases made under this chapter. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 252.021 - Competitive Requirements For Purchases
  (a) Before a municipality may enter into a contract that requires an expenditure of more than $50,000 from one or more municipal funds, the municipality...
• Texas Section 252.0215 - Competitive Bidding In Relation To Historically Underutilized Business
  A municipality, in making an expenditure of more than $3,000 but less than $50,000, shall contact at least two historically underutilized businesses on a rotating...
• Texas Section 252.022 - General Exemptions
  (a) This chapter does not apply to an expenditure for: (1) a procurement made because of a public calamity that requires the immediate appropriation of...
• Texas Section 252.023 - Exemptions From Referendum Provisions
  The referendum provisions prescribed by Section 252.045 do not apply to expenditures that are payable: (1) from current funds; (2) from bond funds; or (3)...

SUBCHAPTER C PROCEDURES

• Texas Section 252.024 - Selection Of Insurance Broker
  This chapter does not prevent a municipality from selecting a licensed insurance broker as the sole broker of record to obtain proposals and coverages for...
• Texas Section 252.041 - Notice Requirement
  (a) If the competitive sealed bidding requirement applies to the contract, notice of the time and place at which the bids will be publicly opened...
• Texas Section 252.0415 - Procedures For Electronic Bids Or Proposals
  (a) A municipality may receive bids or proposals under this chapter through electronic transmission if the governing body of the municipality adopts rules to ensure...
• Texas Section 252.042 - Requests For Proposals For Certain Procurements
  (a) Requests for proposals made under Section 252.021 must solicit quotations and must specify the relative importance of price and other evaluation factors. (b) Discussions...
• Texas Section 252.043 - Award Of Contract
  (a) If the competitive sealed bidding requirement applies to the contract for goods or services, the contract must be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder...
• Texas Section 252.0435 - Safety Record Of Bidder Considered
  In determining who is a responsible bidder, the governing body may take into account the safety record of the bidder, of the firm, corporation, partnership,...
• Texas Section 252.0436 - Contract With Person Indebted To Municipality
  (a) A municipality by ordinance may establish regulations permitting the municipality to refuse to enter into a contract or other transaction with a person indebted...
• Texas Section 252.044 - Contractor's Bond
  (a) If the contract is for the construction of public works, the bidder to whom the contract is awarded must execute a good and sufficient...
• Texas Section 252.045 - Referendum On Issuance Of Time Warrants
  (a) If, by the time set for letting a contract under this chapter, a written petition with the required signatures is filed with the municipal...
• Texas Section 252.046 - Circumstances In Which Current Funds To Be Set Aside
  If an expenditure under the contract is payable by warrants on current funds, the governing body of the municipality by order shall set aside an...
• Texas Section 252.047 - Payment Method For Certain Contracts
  If the contract is for the construction of public works or for the purchase of materials, equipment, and supplies, the municipality may let the contract...
• Texas Section 252.048 - Change Orders
  (a) If changes in plans or specifications are necessary after the performance of the contract is begun or if it is necessary to decrease or...
• Texas Section 252.049 - Confidentiality Of Information In Bids Or Proposals
  (a) Trade secrets and confidential information in competitive sealed bids are not open for public inspection. (b) If provided in a request for proposals, proposals...
• Texas Section 252.050 - Lease-purchase Or Installment Purchase Of Real Property
  (a) This section applies only to a lease-purchase or installment purchase of real property financed by the issuance of certificates of participation. (b) The governing...

SUBCHAPTER D ENFORCEMENT

• Texas Section 252.051 - Appraisal Required Before Purchase Of Property With Bond Proceeds
  A municipality may not purchase property wholly or partly with bond proceeds until the municipality obtains an independent appraisal of the property's market value. Added...
• Texas Section 252.061 - Injunction
  If the contract is made without compliance with this chapter, it is void and the performance of the contract, including the payment of any money...
• Texas Section 252.062 - Criminal Penalties
  (a) A municipal officer or employee commits an offense if the officer or employee intentionally or knowingly makes or authorizes separate, sequential, or component purchases...
• Texas Section 252.063 - Removal; Ineligibility
  (a) The final conviction of a municipal officer or employee for an offense under Section 252.062(a) or (b) results in the immediate removal from office...

Last modified: September 28, 2016