1. If the estimated annual amount required to perform a contract is more than $100,000 and the designated method for awarding the contract specified in the solicitation is an invitation to bid, the governing body or its authorized representative:
(a) Shall give preference to a bid to provide recycled products if:
(1) The products meet the applicable standards;
(2) The products can be substituted for comparable nonrecycled products; and
(3) The products do not cost more than comparable nonrecycled products.
(b) May give preference to a bid to provide recycled products if:
(1) The products meet the applicable standards;
(2) The products can be substituted for comparable nonrecycled products; and
(3) The products do not cost more than 5 percent more than the comparable nonrecycled products.
(c) May purchase recycled paper products if the specific recycled paper product is:
(1) Available at a price which is not more than 10 percent higher than that of the comparable paper product made from virgin material;
(2) Of adequate quality; and
(3) Available to the purchaser within a reasonable amount of time.
2. As used in this section:
(a) "Postconsumer waste" means a finished material which would normally be disposed of as solid waste having completed its life cycle as a consumer item.
(b) "Recycled paper product" means any paper or wood-pulp product containing in some combination comprising at least 50 percent of its total weight:
(1) Postconsumer waste; and
(2) Secondary waste,
but the term does not include fibrous waste generated during the manufacturing process such as fibers recovered from wastewater or trimmings of paper machine rolls, wood slabs, chips, sawdust or other wood residue from a manufacturing process.
(c) "Secondary waste" means fragments of products or finished products of a manufacturing process which has converted a virgin resource into a commodity of real economic value.
(Added to NRS 2019, 766)
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.