Title 36 Public Contracts

Chapter 36.30 State Procurement Code

Chapter 102 Common Service Contracts by Article 9 Intergovernmental Relations

36.30.790: Definitions

In AS 36.30.700 – 36.30.790

1) “cooperative purchasing” means procurement conducted by, or on behalf of, more than one public procurement unit, or by a public procurement unit with an external procurement activity;

2) “external procurement activity” means a buying organization not located in this state that, if located in this state, would qualify as a public procurement unit; an agency of the United States is an external procurement activity;

3) “local public procurement unit” means a municipality or other subdivision of the state or other entity that expends public funds for the procurement of supplies, services, professional services, and construction, and any nonprofit corporation operating a charitable hospital;

4) “public procurement unit” means either a local public procurement unit or a state public procurement unit;

5) “state public procurement unit” means the Department of Administration and any other contracting agency of the state.

36.30.700: Cooperative purchasing authorized.

A public procurement unit may either participate in, sponsor, conduct, or administer a cooperative purchasing agreement for the procurement of supplies, services, professional services, or construction with one or more public procurement units or external procurement activities in accordance with an agreement entered into between the participants. Cooperative purchasing may include joint or multi-party contracts between public procurement units and open-ended state public procurement units contracts that are made available to local public procurement units.

TITLE 67
STATE GOVERNMENT AND STATE AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 28
PURCHASING BY POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS
67-2807.JOINT PURCHASING AGREEMENTS — NOT-FOR-PROFIT ASSOCIATIONS.

(1) Political subdivisions may enter into joint purchasing agreements with the state of Idaho or other political subdivisions and may participate in joint purchasing agreements through a joint purchase program established by any not-for-profit association of political subdivisions. Personal property procured pursuant to such joint purchase agreements shall be acquired in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, provided such authority does not preclude or limit political subdivisions from entering into purchase agreements as otherwise provided by statute.

Source: Idaho Statutes

OETC is a contracting agency as defined by ORS 279A.010:

279A.010 Definitions for Public Contracting Code. (1) As used in the Public Contracting Code, unless the context or a specifically applicable definition requires otherwise:
(a) “Bidder” means a person that submits a bid in response to an invitation to bid.
(b) “Contracting agency” means a public body authorized by law to conduct a procurement. “Contracting agency” includes, but is not limited to, the Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and any person authorized by a contracting agency to conduct a procurement on the contracting agency’s behalf. “Contracting agency” does not include the judicial department or the legislative department.

(t) “Person” means a natural person capable of being legally bound, a sole proprietorship, a corporation, a partnership, a limited liability company or partnership, a limited partnership, a for-profit or nonprofit unincorporated association, a business trust, two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest, any other person with legal capacity to contract or a public body.

Contracting agencies are allowed to conduct a variety of cooperative purchasing vehicles as authorized by ORS 279A.205:

279A.205 Cooperative procurements authorized. (1) A contracting agency may participate in, sponsor, conduct or administer a joint cooperative procurement for the procurement of any goods, services or public improvements.
(2) A contracting agency may participate in, sponsor, conduct or administer a permissive or interstate cooperative procurement for the procurement of any goods or services, but not public improvements

Source: Oregon Statutes

39.34.030 Joint powers — Agreements for joint or cooperative action, requisites, effect on responsibilities of component agencies — Financing of joint projects.

(b) The precise organization, composition and nature of any separate legal or administrative entity created thereby together with the powers delegated thereto, provided such entity may be legally created. Such entity may include a nonprofit corporation organized pursuant to chapter 24.03 or 24.06 RCW whose membership is limited solely to the participating public agencies

Source: Washington Statutes