Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 41 > Chapter 23 > Article 10 - Intergovernmental Procurement

• Construction services: means either of the following for construction-manager-at-risk, design-build and job-order-contracting project delivery methods:

  (a) Construction, excluding services, through the construction-manager-at-risk or job-order-contracting project delivery methods. See Arizona Laws 41-2503

• Cooperative purchasing: means procurement conducted by, or on behalf of, more than one public procurement unit. See Arizona Laws 41-2631
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Department: means the department of administration. See Arizona Laws 41-2503
• Designee: means a duly authorized representative of the director. See Arizona Laws 41-2503
• Director: means the director of the department of administration. See Arizona Laws 41-2503
• External procurement activity: means any buying organization not located in this state that would qualify as a public procurement unit. See Arizona Laws 41-2631
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Local public procurement unit: means any political subdivision, any agency, board, department or other instrumentality of such political subdivision and any nonprofit corporation created solely for the purpose of administering a cooperative purchase under this article. See Arizona Laws 41-2631
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Nonprofit corporation: means any nonprofit corporation as designated by the internal revenue service under section 501(c)(3) through 501(c)(6) or under section 115, if created by two or more local public procurement units, and includes certified nonprofit agencies that serve individuals with disabilities as defined in section 41-2636. See Arizona Laws 41-2631
• Public procurement unit: means either a local public procurement unit, the department, any other state or an agency of the United States. See Arizona Laws 41-2631
• State governmental unit: means any department, commission, council, board, bureau, committee, institution, agency, government corporation or other establishment or official of the executive branch or corporation commission of this state. See Arizona Laws 41-2503
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215