As used in the Oklahoma Online Bidding Act:
1. "Information technology" means data processing, telecommunications, and office systems technologies and services;
2. "Services" means the furnishing of labor, time, or effort by a contractor not required to deliver a specific end product, other than reports which are merely incidental to required performance;
3. "Construction" shall be defined as provided by Section 202 of Title 61 of the Oklahoma Statutes for online bids subject to the Public Building Construction and Planning Act;
4. "Procurement" means buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise acquiring any goods, services, construction, or information services. The term also means all functions that pertain to the obtaining of any goods, services, construction, or information services, including, but not limited to, the description of requirements, selection, and solicitation of sources, preparation and award of contracts, and all phases of contract administration;
5. "State agencies" or "agencies" shall be defined as provided by Section 85.2 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes for online bids subject to the Oklahoma Central Purchasing Act or as defined by Section 202 of Title 61 of the Oklahoma Statutes for online bids subject to the Public Building Construction and Planning Act;
6. "Online bidding" means an electronic procurement process in which state agencies receive bids from vendors for goods, services, construction, or information services over the Internet in a real-time, competitive bidding event;
7. "Internet" means the international computer network of both federal and nonfederal interoperable packet-switched data networks, including the graphical subnetwork called the World Wide Web; and
8. "Solicitation" means a request or invitation by the State Purchasing Director or a state agency for a supplier to submit a priced offer to sell acquisitions to the state. A solicitation may be an invitation to bid, request for proposal, or request for quotation.
Added by Laws 2003, c. 60, § 3, eff. July 1, 2003.
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