Texas Parks and Wildlife Code 11.252 – Maintenance Provider Review System
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(a) In this section “maintenance” includes the administration, operation, preservation, repair, and expansion of personal property owned by the department and real property owned or operated by the department.
(b) The commission by rule shall establish a maintenance provider review system through which the department annually determines whether a maintenance task performed by the department could be performed by a third-party contractor in a manner that:
(1) is more cost-effective than the department’s manner of performing the maintenance task; and
(2) yields a result that is equal to or greater than the quality of the result produced by the department performing the task.
Terms Used In Texas Parks and Wildlife Code 11.252
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Rule: includes regulation. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) The maintenance provider review system established under Subsection (b) must require the department to contract with a third party for the performance of any maintenance task performed by the department that could be performed by a third-party contractor in the manner that meets the criteria described by Subsection (b) after the department’s cost of administering the contract is added to the cost of performance by the third party.