1. Before a contract is awarded, a responding offeror or an officer, employee, representative, agent or consultant of such a person shall not:
(a) Make an offer or promise of future employment or business opportunity to, or engage in a discussion of future employment or business opportunity with, an evaluator or member of the governing body offering the contract;
(b) Offer, give or promise to offer or give money, a gratuity or any other thing of value to an evaluator or member of the governing body offering the contract; or
(c) Solicit or obtain from an officer, employee or member of the governing body offering the contract:
(1) Any proprietary information regarding the contract; or
(2) Any information regarding a response to a solicitation submitted by another person, unless such information is available to the general public.
2. A person who violates any of the provisions of subsection 1 is guilty of a gross misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 364 days, or by a fine of not less than $2,000 nor more than $50,000, or by both fine and imprisonment.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 1731; A 2001, 1318; 2007, 2468; 2013, 982; 2019, 778)
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.