(1) The Department of Environmental Protection shall establish, by adopting administrative rules as provided in chapter 120:
(a) Procedures for determining the qualifications of responsible potential vendors prior to advertisement for and receipt of bids, proposals, or replies for pollution response action contracts, including procedures for the rejection of unqualified vendors. Response actions are those activities described in s. 376.301(39).
(b) Procedures for awarding such contracts to the lowest responsible and responsive vendor as well as procedures to be followed in cases in which the department declares a valid emergency to exist which would necessitate the waiver of the rules governing the awarding of such contracts to the lowest responsible and responsive vendor.
(c) Procedures governing payment of contracts.
(d) Procedures to govern negotiations for contracts, modifications to contract documents, and terms and conditions of contracts.
(2) In adopting rules under this section, the Department of Environmental Protection shall follow the criteria applicable to the department’s contracting to the maximum extent possible, consistent with the goals and purposes of ss. 376.307 and 376.3071.
(3) Any bid submitted under this section shall be confidential and exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1) until a selection is made and a contract signed or until bids are no longer under active consideration.
History.—s. 1, ch. 87-337; s. 9, ch. 87-374; s. 8, ch. 89-188; s. 2, ch. 89-377; s. 3, ch. 90-54; s. 103, ch. 90-360; s. 253, ch. 92-279; s. 55, ch. 92-326; s. 1, ch. 94-355; s. 114, ch. 94-356; s. 86, ch. 95-143; s. 18, ch. 96-263; s. 14, ch. 96-277; s. 14, ch. 96-321; s. 133, ch. 96-406; s. 15, ch. 98-189; s. 55, ch. 99-13; s. 19, ch. 2002-207; s. 3, ch. 2005-50; s. 1, ch. 2014-151; s. 16, ch. 2015-2; s. 88, ch. 2015-229; s. 6, ch. 2016-184.
Structure Florida Statutes
Chapter 287 - Procurement of Personal Property and Services
Part I - Commodities, Insurance, and Contractual Services (Ss. 287.001-287.137)
287.017 - Purchasing categories, threshold amounts.
287.022 - Purchase of insurance.
287.032 - Purpose of department.
287.042 - Powers, duties, and functions.
287.056 - Purchases from purchasing agreements and state term contracts; vendor disqualification.
287.057 - Procurement of commodities or contractual services.
287.05705 - Procurements of road, bridge, and other specified public construction services.
287.0571 - Business case to outsource; applicability.
287.0572 - Present-value methodology.
287.0575 - Coordination of contracted services.
287.05805 - Contract requirement for use of state funds to purchase or improve real property.
287.0582 - Contracts which require annual appropriation; contingency statement.
287.0585 - Late payments by contractors to subcontractors and suppliers; penalty.
287.059 - Private attorney services.
287.0591 - Information technology; vendor disqualification.
287.0595 - Pollution response action contracts; department rules.
287.063 - Deferred-payment commodity contracts; preaudit review.
287.064 - Consolidated financing of deferred-payment purchases.
287.0641 - Agreement not debt or pledge of faith or credit of state.
287.0731 - Team for contract negotiations.
287.074 - Prohibited actions by contractor personnel.
287.075 - Materially interested contractor; prohibition on certain activities.
287.082 - Commodities manufactured, grown, or produced in state given preference.
287.0821 - All American and Genuine Florida meat or meat products.
287.0822 - Beef and pork; prohibition on purchase; bid specifications; penalty.
287.083 - Purchase of commodities.
287.0831 - Limitation on purchases to replace damaged state agency equipment; assessment protocols.
287.0834 - Motor vehicles; energy-saving equipment and additives.
287.084 - Preference to Florida businesses.
287.087 - Preference to businesses with drug-free workplace programs.
287.092 - Preference to certain foreign manufacturers.
287.0931 - Minority business enterprises; participation in bond underwriting.
287.0935 - Surety bond insurers.
287.0943 - Certification of minority business enterprises.
287.09451 - Office of Supplier Diversity; powers, duties, and functions.
287.095 - Department of Corrections; prison industry programs.
287.131 - Assistance of Department of Financial Services.
287.132 - Legislative intent with respect to integrity of public contracting and purchasing process.
287.135 - Prohibition against contracting with scrutinized companies.
287.1351 - Suspended vendors; state contracts.