(a) There shall be a Vendor and Citizen Advisory Panel comprised of fifteen members appointed as follows: Three members by the Governor, two members by each of the following: The speaker of the House of Representatives, the majority and minority leaders of the House of Representatives, the president pro tempore of the Senate and the majority and minority leaders of the Senate. No more than six vendors with state procurement experience shall be on the panel and the remaining members shall have demonstrated sufficient knowledge by education, training or experience in one or more of the following areas: (1) Government procurement; (2) contract negotiation, drafting and management; (3) contract risk assessment; (4) preparing requests for proposals, invitations to bid and other procurement solicitations; (5) evaluating proposals, bids and quotations; (6) real property transactions; (7) business insurance and bonding; (8) the state code of ethics; (9) federal and state statutes, policies and regulations; (10) outsourcing and privatization proposal analysis; (11) governmental taxation and finance; (12) small and minority business enterprise development; (13) collective bargaining; and (14) human services, provided such education, training or experience shall have been acquired over not less than a continuous five-year period and within the ten-year period preceding such appointment. The chairperson of the panel shall be the Chief Procurement Officer, who shall be an ex-officio member.
(b) The panel shall make recommendations to the board regarding best practices in state procurement processes and project management as well as other issues pertaining to stakeholders in the system.
(Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-1, S. 9.)
History: Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-1 effective January 1, 2009.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 62 - State Contracting Standards Board
Section 4e-6. - Triennial audits of state contracting agencies. Compliance report.
Section 4e-8. - Contracting Standards Advisory Council. Duties.
Section 4e-9. - Vendor and Citizen Advisory Panel. Established. Duties.
Section 4e-10. - Submission of legislation by board to the Governor and General Assembly.
Section 4e-11. - Adoption of procurement codes by constitutional officers. Deadline.
Section 4e-12. - Procurement codes for legislative and judicial branches. Requirements.
Section 4e-14. - Requirements for contracts taking effect on or after June 1, 2010.
Section 4e-17. - Application of privatization and contracting provisions, generally.
Section 4e-23. - Regulations for the waiver of competitive bid or proposal requirements.
Section 4e-25. - Request for factual information reasonably available to bidder or proposer.
Section 4e-27. - Regulations for the use of cost-reimbursement contracts.
Section 4e-32. - Retention and disposal of procurement records by state contracting agencies.
Section 4e-36. - Contest of the solicitation or award of a contract by bidder or proposer.
Section 4e-38. - Issuance of decision on appeal by board.
Section 4e-41. - Regulations concerning the procurement of architectural and engineering services.
Section 4e-42. - Regulations concerning bid security for certain competitive sealed bidding.
Section 4e-43. - Regulations concerning errors and omissions insurance.
Section 4e-44. - Regulations concerning the procurement of consultant services.
Section 4e-45. - Regulations concerning infrastructure facilities.
Section 4e-50. - Contracts for environmental remediation of brownfields.