It shall be the duty of the Department of Administrative Services to formulate, adopt, establish, and modify standard specifications applying to state contracts. In the formulation, adoption, and modification of any standard specifications, the Department of Administrative Services shall seek the advice, assistance, and cooperation of any state department, institution, or agency to ascertain its precise requirements in any given commodity. Each specification adopted for any commodity shall insofar as possible satisfy the requirements of a majority of the state departments, institutions, or agencies which use the same in common. After its adoption each standard specification shall until revised or rescinded apply alike in terms and effect to every state purchase of the commodity described in such specifications. In the preparation of any standard specifications, the Department of Administrative Services shall have power to make use of any state laboratory for chemical and physical tests in the determination of quality.
History. Ga. L. 1937, p. 503, § 14; Ga. L. 1939, p. 160, § 7.
Structure Georgia Code
Chapter 5 - Department of Administrative Services
Part 1 - General Authority, Duties, and Procedure
§ 50-5-50. Purposes and Policies of Part
§ 50-5-51. Power, Authority, and Duty of Department
§ 50-5-52. Power to Examine Books, Records, and Papers; Report of Purchases
§ 50-5-53. Authorization to Employ Assistants, Fix Salaries, and Make Assignments
§ 50-5-54. Rules and Regulations to Be Made and Published
§ 50-5-55. Specified Purposes for Rules and Regulations
§ 50-5-56. Department to Establish Standard Contract Specifications
§ 50-5-58. Cases Where Purchases Through Department Not Mandatory
§ 50-5-59. State Agencies to Furnish Department Estimates and Inventories
§ 50-5-60.2. Use of Recycled Content Paper Products
§ 50-5-60.3. Use of Retreaded Tires
§ 50-5-64. Multiyear Contracts Authorized; Standard Form Provisions; What Funds Obligated; Interest
§ 50-5-64.1. Prohibited Terms in State Contracts
§ 50-5-65. Transfer of Personal Property Titles to Effectuate Lease Purchases; Authority; Form
§ 50-5-66. Department to Compile and Consolidate All Estimates
§ 50-5-68. Prequalification of Prospective Suppliers
§ 50-5-70. Purchases for County Boards of Education
§ 50-5-71. Emergency Purchases Authorized; Report of Circumstances
§ 50-5-75. Lease or Construction of Warehouse Space Authorized
§ 50-5-79. Purchase Contracts Contrary to Part Void and Officers Personally Liable
§ 50-5-83. Definitions; Requirements for State Purchasing Card Program