Ohio Code 125.11 – Contract award
(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, contracts awarded pursuant to a reverse auction under section 125.072 of the Revised Code or pursuant to competitive sealed bidding, including contracts awarded under section 125.081 of the Revised Code, shall be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder in accordance with section 9.312 of the Revised Code, and contracts awarded pursuant to a competitive sealed proposal shall be awarded to the offeror determined to be the most advantageous to this state.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 125.11
- Competitive selection: means any of the following procedures for making purchases:
(1) Competitive sealed bidding under section 125. See Ohio Code 125.01
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Produced: means the manufacturing, processing, mining, developing, and making of a thing into a new article with a distinct character in use through the application of input, within the state or a state bordering Ohio, of Buy Ohio products, labor, skill, or other services. See Ohio Code 125.01
- Products: means materials, supplies, merchandise, goods, wares, and foodstuffs. See Ohio Code 125.01
- Purchase: means to buy, rent, lease, lease purchase, or otherwise acquire supplies or services. See Ohio Code 125.01
- Services: means the furnishing of labor, time, or effort by a person, not involving the delivery of a specific end product other than a report which, if provided, is merely incidental to the required performance. See Ohio Code 125.01
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
- United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59
(B) Prior to awarding a contract under division (A) of this section, the department of administrative services or the state agency responsible for evaluating a contract for the purchase of products or services shall evaluate the bids and offers received according to the criteria and procedures established pursuant to division (B) of section 125.09 of the Revised Code for determining if a product is mined, excavated, produced, manufactured, raised, or grown in the United States, in this state, or in a state bordering Ohio, whether the bid or offer was received from a Buy Ohio supplier, and whether the bid or offer was received from a certified veteran-friendly business enterprise. These requirements shall be applied where sufficient competition can be generated to ensure that compliance with these requirements will be in the best interest of the state unless otherwise prohibited.
(C) Division (B) of this section applies to contracts for which competitive selection is waived by the controlling board.
(D) Division (B) of this section does not apply to the purchase by the division of liquor control of spirituous liquor.
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