Georgia Code
Part 1 - General Authority, Duties, and Procedure
§ 50-5-69. Purchases Without Competitive Bidding; Central Bid Registry; Procurement Cards; Rules and Regulations; Applicability to Emergency Purchases; Purchasing Advisory Council

History. Ga. L. 1976, p. 752, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 90, § 4; Ga. L. 1983, p. 520, § 1; Ga. L. 1996, p. 885, § 6; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1372, § 2; Ga. L. 2001, p. 792, § 2; Ga. L. 2005, p. 117, § 13A/HB 312; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-4/HB 228; Ga. L. 2010, p. 286, § 21/SB 244; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 5-28/HB 214; Ga. L. 2012, p. 760, § 1-1/HB 863; Ga. L. 2012, p. 775, § 50/HB 942; Ga. L. 2015, p. 552, § 18/SB 138; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1284, § 3/HB 259.
The 2011 amendment, effective July 1, 2011, inserted “the commissioner of public health or his or her designee” near the end of the next-to-last sentence of subsection (a).
The 2012 amendments. —
The first 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, and repealed effective July 1, 2015, in subsection (a), substituted “$25,000.00” for “$5,000.00” in the first sentence, and substituted “the Technical College System of Georgia” for “technical and adult education” in the third sentence. The second 2012 amendment, effective May 1, 2012, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “the commissioner of the Technical College System of Georgia” for “the commissioner of technical and adult education” in subsection (a), and revised language in the last sentence of subsection (c).
The 2015 amendments.
The first 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, added subsection (f). The second 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, substituted “$25,000.00” for “$5,000.00” in the middle of the first sentence of subsection (a). See Editor’s notes for applicability.
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 1996, p. 885, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Purchasing Reform Act of 1996.’ ”
Ga. L. 1996, p. 885, § 2, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “The General Assembly declares and finds that many of the laws establishing guidelines and requirements for the purchasing of supplies, materials, and equipment by and for state departments and agencies were developed decades earlier and prior to the increase in available sources of supply and the expansion of technology. It is the intent of the General Assembly that these laws be amended to reflect these changes in order to provide greater flexibility for state agencies to make their purchases and to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy which can result in purchase delays and increased administrative costs.”
Ga. L. 2015, p. 1284, § 1/HB 259, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Georgia Business Act.’ ”
Ga. L. 2015, p. 1284, § 7/HB 259, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “The amendment made by Section 3 of this Act shall apply to Code Section 50-5-69 as it exists on July 1, 2015.”
Law reviews.
For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 147 (2011).
For article, “Construction Law,” see 70 Mercer L. Rev. 51 (2018).

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