16.08.040 Cooperative purchasing.
A. Authorization of Cooperative Purchasing.
1. Notwithstanding any other provision in this title, the Borough, with the Chief Procurement Officer’s approval, may participate in, sponsor, conduct, or administer a cooperative purchasing agreement for the procurement of supplies, services, professional services, or construction with one or more public procurement units or external procurement activities in accordance with an agreement entered into between the participants. Cooperative purchasing may include joint or multi-party contracts between public procurement units and open-ended state public procurement unit contracts that are made available to other public procurement units.
2. All cooperative purchasing authorized in this section shall be through contracts awarded through full and open competition using methods substantially equivalent to those authorized in this title.
B. Definition of Terms.
“Cooperative purchasing” means procurement conducted by, or on behalf of, one or more public procurement units.
“External procurement activity” means any buying organization not located in this state which, if located in this state, would qualify as a public procurement unit. Agencies of the United States and of any other state in the United States are external procurement activities.
“Local public procurement unit” means any Borough, city, town, and any other subdivision of the state or public agency of any such subdivision, public authority, educational, health, or other institution, and to the extent provided by law, any other entity which expends public funds for the procurement of supplies, services, and construction.
“Public procurement unit” means any of the following:
1. A local procurement unit;
2. An external procurement unit;
3. A state public procurement unit; and
4. Any not-for-profit entity comprised of more than one unit or activity listed in subsection (1), (2) or (3) of this definition.
“State public procurement unit” means the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer of this or any other state and any other purchasing agency of this state or any other state. (Ord. 2002-29 § 8, 2002. 2004 Code § 16.25.040.)