Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 41 > Chapter 25 > Article 2 - Competitive Government Program

• Competitive government process: means the process, as developed by the governor's office of management and budget, designed to standardize the methodology for how the state identifies and evaluates state functions to determine if future competitive contracting with the private sector and other state agencies is in the best interest of this state. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• Competitive government program: means the program, as developed by the governor's office of management and budget, designed to manage the process of introducing private sector and interagency competition into the delivery of state goods and services. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Function: means a good or service that is provided through the direct efforts of state employees. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Office: means the governor's office of management and budget, established by executive order, or its successor. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• Privatization: means the utilization of a private sector entity in the delivery of goods and services currently provided by a state function or program. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Relevant costs: means those costs that relate to a target function that can be eliminated if the target function is transferred to another agency or the private sector. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• State agency: means any executive department, office, commission, institution, board or other executive agency of state organization regardless of whether monies are appropriated to the agency. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• Target function: means a current state function that has been identified for review through the competitive government process. See Arizona Laws 41-2771