The director may authorize, in writing, a state spending unit to purchase in the open market, without filing requisition or estimate, specific commodities for immediate delivery to meet bona fide emergencies arising from unforeseen causes, including delays by contractors, delays in transportation and unanticipated volume of work. A report of any such purchase, together with a record of the competitive bids upon which it was based, shall be submitted at once to the director by the head of the state spending unit concerned, together with a full account of the circumstances of the emergency: Provided, That the director may waive the need for the record of competitive bids. Such report shall be entered on a record and shall be open to public inspection.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 5A. Department of Administration
Article 3. Purchasing Division
§5A-3-1. Division Created; Purpose; Director; Applicability of Article; Continuation
§5A-3-1a. Prescription Drug Products
§5A-3-2. Books and Records of Director
§5A-3-3. Authority of Director of Purchasing
§5A-3-3a. Additional Exemptions From Purchasing Requirements
§5A-3-6. Purchasing Section Standard Specifications -- Advisers From Spending Units
§5A-3-8. Facilities of Division Available to Local Governmental Bodies
§5A-3-9. Examination and Testing of Purchases; Report Required
§5A-3-10b. Best Value Procurement
§5A-3-10c. Direct Award Procurement
§5A-3-10e. Prequalification Agreement; Agency-Delegated Bidding
§5A-3-11a. Negotiation When All Bids Exceed Budget in Requisition
§5A-3-11b. Discussion and Final Offers
§5A-3-13. Contracts to Be Approved as to Form; Filing
§5A-3-15. Emergency Purchases in Open Market
§5A-3-16. Special Fund; Purposes; How Composed
§5A-3-17. Purchases or Contracts Violating Article Void; Personal Liability
§5A-3-18. Substituting for Commodity Bearing Particular Trade Name or Brand
§5A-3-19. Purchases From Federal Government and Other Sources
§5A-3-20. Spending Units to Submit Lists of Expendable Commodities
§5A-3-29. Penalty for Violation of Article
§5A-3-31. Corrupt Actions, Combinations, Collusions or Conspiracies Prohibited; Penalties
§5A-3-32. Power of Director to Suspend Right to Bid; Notice of Suspension
§5A-3-33. Review of Suspension by Secretary
§5A-3-33d. Grounds for Debarment
§5A-3-33e. Debarment Procedure
§5A-3-33f. Effects of Debarment
§5A-3-34. Authority Over Inventories and Property
§5A-3-35. Submission of Annual Inventories
§5A-3-36. Inventory of Removable Property
§5A-3-37. Reciprocal Preference; Preference for Resident Vendors for Certain Contracts
§5A-3-43. State Agency for Surplus Property Created
§5A-3-44. Authority and Duties of State Agency for Surplus Property
§5A-3-46. Warehousing, Transfer, etc., Charges
§5A-3-47. Department of Agriculture and Other Agencies Exempted
§5A-3-48. Travel Rules; Exceptions
§5A-3-50. Acquiring and Disposing of Vehicles and Aircraft
§5A-3-51. Maintenance and Service to Vehicles and Aircraft
§5A-3-53. Enforcement of Travel Management Regulations
§5A-3-57. Buy American Task Force; Study; Report
§5A-3-58. Creation of the Purchasing Improvement Fund
§5A-3-59. Small, Women and Minority-Owned Businesses