“Director” means the Director of the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs;

“Electronic procurement” means the use of computer technology and the Internet for the advertising and submission of public bids, providing notice of revisions or addenda to advertisements or bid documents, the receipt of proposals and quotations, competitive contracting, the use of reverse auctions, and related practices to assist in determining the lowest responsible bidder or proposer who is most advantageous, price and other factors considered, as appropriate, for goods and services, the sale of personal property, and other public procurement-related activities and services as may be determined appropriate by the director;

“Goods and services” means any work, labor, commodities, equipment, materials, or supplies of any tangible or intangible nature, except real property or any interest therein, provided or performed through a contract awarded by a contracting agent, including goods and property subject to N.J.S. 12A:2-101 et seq.;

“Local unit” means a school district as defined in the “Public School Contracts Law,” N.J.S. 18A:18A-1 et seq., or a contracting unit as defined in the “Local Public Contracts Law,” P.L.1971, c.198 (C. 40A:11-1 et seq.);

“Public works construction” means any contract that is subject to the “New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act,” P.L.1963, c.150 (C. 34:11-56.25 et seq.); and

“Real property” shall include, in addition to the usual connotations thereof, development rights or easements, or any right, interest, or estate in the area extending above any real property, or capital improvement thereon, to such a height or altitude as any title, interest, or estate in real property may extend, commonly known as “air rights,” and subject to, but not limited to, the “Local Lands and Buildings Law,” P.L.1971, c.199 (C. 40A:12-1 et seq.).

L.2018, c.156, s.3.