New York Laws
Article 1-A - Lobbying Act
1-N - Restricted Contacts.

(a) contacts by offerers in protests, appeals or other review
proceedings (including the apparent successful bidder or proposer and
his or her representatives) before the governmental entity conducting
the procurement seeking a final administrative determination, or in a
subsequent judicial proceeding; or
(b) complaints of alleged improper conduct in a governmental
procurement to the attorney general, inspector general, district
attorney, or court of competent jurisdiction; or
(c) written protests, appeals or complaints to the state comptroller's
office during the process of contract approval, where the state
comptroller's approval is required by law, and where such communications
and any responses thereto are made in writing and shall be entered in
the procurement record pursuant to section one hundred sixty-three of
the state finance law; or
(d) complaints of alleged improper conduct in a governmental
procurement conducted by a municipal agency or local legislative body to
the state comptroller's office;
provided, however, that nothing in this subdivision shall be construed
as recognizing or creating any new rights, duties or responsibilities or
abrogating any existing rights, duties or responsibilities of any
governmental entity as it pertains to implementation and enforcement of
article eleven of the state finance law or any other provision of law
dealing with the governmental procurement process.
3. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit a person or
organization required to file a statement or report pursuant to this
article from contacting a member of the state legislature concerning a
governmental procurement in a state agency, the unified court system, or
a municipal agency, as that term is defined by paragraph (ii) of
subdivision (s) of section one-c of this article.