(1) The department may, without issuing a solicitation, directly purchase from, or contract with, another person for the following human services procurement items:

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Terms Used In Utah Code 63G-6a-2503

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contract: means an agreement for a procurement. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
  • Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Utah Code 63G-6a-2501
  • Person: means :
         (24)(a) an individual;
         (24)(b) an association;
         (24)(c) an institution;
         (24)(d) a corporation;
         (24)(e) a company;
         (24)(f) a trust;
         (24)(g) a limited liability company;
         (24)(h) a partnership;
         (24)(i) a political subdivision;
         (24)(j) a government office, department, division, bureau, or other body of government; and
         (24)(k) any other organization or entity. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Procurement: means the acquisition of a procurement item through an expenditure of public funds, or an agreement to expend public funds, including an acquisition through a public-private partnership. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
  • Solicitation: means an invitation for bids, request for proposals, or request for statement of qualifications. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
     (1)(a) medical, dental, behavioral, psychological, psychiatric, or substance use evaluation and treatment for an individual;
     (1)(b) assistance payments on behalf of an individual that are intended to keep the individual out of a higher level of care or prevent or reduce the need for additional department services;
     (1)(c) services for which the individual receiving the services has the right to choose the person who provides the services;
     (1)(d) services for which the department makes a written determination, made available to the public, that the individual’s need to receive services from a particular provider outweigh the public interest in issuing a competitive procurement;
     (1)(e) adoption subsidy and maintenance payments;
     (1)(f) child placing services for an individual adoption;
     (1)(g) death investigation services; or
     (1)(h) residential treatment services for an individual after all providers under contract from a competitive procurement are exhausted.
(2) The department shall:

     (2)(a) maintain a written record of the name of all persons who provide services under this section; and
     (2)(b) annually publish on the department’s website the total amount paid to each person under this section during the immediately preceding five-year period.