Sec. 4a-50. (Formerly Sec. 4-109). Definitions.
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When used in this chapter, unless the context indicates a different meaning:
(1)“State agency” includes any officer, department, board, council, commission, institution or other agency of the Executive Department of the state government;
(2)“Supplies”, “materials” and “equipment” mean any and all articles of personal property furnished to or used by any state agency, including all printing, binding, publication of laws, stationery, forms, and reports;
(3)“Contractual services” means any and all laundry and cleaning service, pest control service, janitorial service, security service, the rental and repair, or maintenance, of equipment, machinery and other state-owned personal property, advertising and photostating, mimeographing, and other service arrangements where the services are provided by persons other than state employees;
(4)“Competitive bidding” means the submission of prices by persons, firms or corporations competing for a contract to provide supplies, materials, equipment or contractual services, under a procedure in which the contracting authority does not negotiate prices;
(5)“Competitive negotiation” means a procedure for contracting for supplies, materials, equipment or contractual services, in which
(A)proposals are solicited from qualified suppliers by a request for proposals, and
(B)changes may be negotiated in proposals and prices after being submitted;
(6)“Bidder” means a person, firm or corporation submitting a competitive bid in response to a solicitation; and
(7)“Proposer” means a person, firm or corporation submitting a proposal in response to a request for proposals.