As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Authorized representative" means a person designated by the governing body to be responsible for the development, award and proper administration of all purchases and contracts for a local government or a department, division, agency, board or unit of a local government made pursuant to this chapter.
2. "Chief administrative officer" means the person directly responsible to the governing body for the administration of that particular entity.
3. "Evaluator" means an authorized representative, officer, employee, representative, agent, consultant or member of a governing body who has participated in:
(a) The evaluation of responses;
(b) Negotiations concerning purchasing by a local government; or
(c) The review or approval of the award, modification or extension of a contract.
4. "Governing body" means the board, council, commission or other body in which the general legislative and fiscal powers of the local government are vested. The term includes a local school precinct.
5. "Local school precinct" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 388G.535.
6. "On-line solicitation" means a process by which a responding offeror submits a response to a solicitation on a secure website on the Internet or its successor, if any, which is established and maintained for that purpose.
7. "Proprietary information" means:
(a) Any trade secret or confidential business information that is contained in a response submitted to a governing body or its authorized representative on a particular contract; or
(b) Any other trade secret or confidential business information submitted to a governing body or its authorized representative by a responding offeror and designated as proprietary by the governing body or its authorized representative.
As used in this subsection, "confidential business information" means any information relating to the amount or source of any income, profits, losses or expenditures of a person, including data relating to cost, price, or the customers of a responding offeror which is submitted in support of a response. The term does not include the amount of a response submitted to a governing body or its authorized representative.
8. "Responding offeror" means a person who responds to a solicitation made by a governing body or its authorized representative.
9. "Solicitation" means a written statement which sets forth the requirements and specifications of a contract to be awarded by:
(a) An invitation to bid;
(b) A request for proposals;
(c) A request for a statement of qualifications;
(d) A request for a quotation; or
(e) Any other accepted method of purchasing that complies with the provisions of this chapter.
10. "Trade secret" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 600A.030.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 1536; A 1985, 514; 1995, 1731; 2001, 1314; 2017, 57; 2019, 767)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 332 - Purchasing: Local Governments
NRS 332.015 - "Local government" defined.
NRS 332.025 - Other terms defined.
NRS 332.027 - Application of chapter to local school precincts.
NRS 332.043 - Solicitation: Required contents.
NRS 332.045 - Advertisement of contract: Publication; contents.
NRS 332.047 - On-line solicitation.
NRS 332.091 - Maintenance of records of solicitations and responses.
NRS 332.095 - Assignment of contracts.
NRS 332.112 - Emergency contracts.
NRS 332.148 - Failure to receive responsible responses.
NRS 332.175 - Trade-in allowances for personal property.
NRS 332.310 - Building" defined.
NRS 332.320 - Operating cost savings" defined.
NRS 332.330 - Operating cost-savings measure" defined.
NRS 332.340 - Performance contract" defined.
NRS 332.350 - Qualified service company" defined.
NRS 332.352 - Criteria for qualification as qualified service company.
NRS 332.353 - Additional circumstance in which person may be deemed qualified service company.
NRS 332.370 - Financing and structure of performance contract.
NRS 332.371 - Requirements for performance contract that guarantees operating cost savings.
NRS 332.380 - Period over which payments become due.
NRS 332.410 - Use of savings realized throughout term of contract.
NRS 332.420 - Monitoring of cost savings attributable to operating cost-savings measures.
NRS 332.431 - Duty of local governments to report to Legislature.
NRS 332.440 - Financial mechanisms to guarantee operational cost savings are realized.
NRS 332.810 - Prohibited acts by responding offerors before award of contract; penalty.
NRS 332.820 - Effect of collusion among responding offerors or advance disclosures of information.