95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB1621


 
Introduced 2/9/2007, by Sen. Jeffrey M. Schoenberg
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














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    Amends the Illinois Procurement Code.  Permits a State agency to renew or extend a lease of real property or capital improvements without using the request for information selection process if it is in the State's best interest and the Procurement Policy Board does not object (now, permitted only for renewal or extension of leases in effect before July 1, 2002).  Effective July 1, 2007.
















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    AN ACT concerning finance.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Illinois Procurement Code is amended  by 
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changing Section 40-15 as follows:
 



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    (30 ILCS 500/40-15)


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    Sec. 40-15. Method of source selection. 

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    (a) Request for information.  Except as provided in

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subsections (b) and (c), all State
contracts for leases of real 
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property or capital improvements
shall be awarded by a request 
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for
information process in accordance with Section 40-20.

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    (b) Other methods.  A request for information process need

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not be used in procuring any
of the following leases:


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        (1) Property of less than 10,000 square feet.


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        (2) Rent of less than $100,000 per year.


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        (3) Duration of less than one year that cannot be

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    renewed.


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        (4) Specialized space available at only one location.


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        (5) Renewal or extension of a lease
in effect before 
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    July 1, 2002;
provided that: (i) the chief procurement 
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    officer determines in writing that the
renewal or extension 
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    is in the best interest of the State; (ii) the chief

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    procurement officer submits his or her written 
 


 






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    determination and the renewal or
extension to the Board; 
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    (iii) the Board does not object in writing to the
renewal 
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    or extension within 30 days after its submission; and (iv) 
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    the chief
procurement officer publishes the renewal or 
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    extension in the appropriate
volume of the Procurement 
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    Bulletin.

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    (c) Leases with governmental units.  Leases with other

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governmental units may be
negotiated without using the request 
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for information process when
deemed by the chief procurement 
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officer to be
in the best interest of the State.

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(Source: P.A. 93-133, eff. 1-1-04; 93-839, eff. 7-30-04.)

 

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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 
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2007.