(a) All executive department secretaries, commissioners, deputy commissioners, assistant commissioners, directors, deputy directors, assistant directors, department heads, deputy department heads and assistant department heads are hereby required to take two hours of training on purchasing procedures and purchasing cards annually.
(b) The Director of the Purchasing Division and the Auditor shall offer the two-hour training required by this section at least two times per year and shall develop its substance in accordance with the requirements of this article and other relevant provisions of this code. The training shall be recorded by audio and visual means and shall be made available to the individuals listed in subsection (a) of this section in the event they are unable to attend the training in person.
(c) All individuals listed in subsection (a) of this section shall certify, in writing and on a form developed by the Director of the Purchasing Division, the date, time, location and manner in which they took the training. Completed forms shall be returned to the director and maintained in his or her office.
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