The board of trustees or governing board of any hospital or regional mental health center owned or owned and operated separately or jointly by the State of Mississippi or any of its branches, agencies, departments or subdivisions, or by one or more counties, cities, towns, supervisors districts or election districts, or combinations thereof, may authorize by resolution the organization and operation of, or the participation in, a group purchasing program with other hospitals or regional mental health centers, for the purchase of supplies, commodities and equipment when it appears to the board of trustees or governing board that such a group purchasing program could or would affect economy or efficiency in their operations. Purchases by hospitals or regional mental health centers participating in group purchasing programs of supplies, commodities and equipment through such programs shall be exempt from the provisions of Sections 31-7-9, 31-7-10, 31-7-11, 31-7-12 and 31-7-13.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations
§ 31-7-3. Administration of provisions of chapter; purposes
§ 31-7-5. Administrative rules and regulations
§ 31-7-11. Purchasing practices
§ 31-7-13. Bid requirements and exceptions; public auctions
§ 31-7-14. Public contracts of energy efficiency services
§ 31-7-18. Purchase of certain motor vehicles
§ 31-7-21. Functions of Department of Finance and Administration
§ 31-7-23. Rebates, refunds, etc. from vendor to inure to benefit of agency or governing authority
§ 31-7-47. Preference to resident contractors
§ 31-7-49. Purchases under contract
§ 31-7-61. Governmental purchases of foreign beef; prohibition against
§ 31-7-63. Governmental purchases of foreign beef; penalties
§ 31-7-73. Authority of state agencies to contract for energy efficiency services