2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 279A - Public Contracting - General Provisions › Section 279A.200 - Definitions for ORS 279A.200 to 279A.225.

(1) As used in ORS 279A.200 to 279A.225:
(a) "Administering contracting agency" means a governmental body in this state or in another jurisdiction that solicits and establishes the original contract for the procurement of goods, services or public improvements in a cooperative procurement.
(b) "Cooperative procurement" means a procurement conducted on behalf of more than one governmental body. "Cooperative procurement" includes but is not limited to multiagency contracts and price agreements. "Cooperative procurement" does not include an agreement formed among only governmental bodies under ORS chapter 190 or by a statute, charter provision, ordinance or other authority for establishing agreements between or among governmental bodies or agencies or tribal governing bodies or agencies.
(c) "Cooperative procurement group" means a group of governmental bodies joined through an intergovernmental agreement for the purpose of facilitating cooperative procurements.
(d) "Interstate cooperative procurement" means a permissive cooperative procurement in which the administering contracting agency is a governmental body, domestic or foreign, that is authorized under the governmental body’s laws, rules or regulations to enter into public contracts and in which one or more of the participating governmental bodies are located outside this state.
(e) "Joint cooperative procurement" means a cooperative procurement in which the participating governmental bodies or the cooperative procurement group and the bodies’ or group’s contract requirements or estimated contract requirements for price agreements are identified.
(f) "Original contract" means the initial contract or price agreement solicited and awarded during a cooperative procurement by an administering contracting agency.
(g) "Permissive cooperative procurement" means a cooperative procurement in which the purchasing contracting agencies are not identified.
(h) "Purchasing contracting agency" means a governmental body that procures goods, services or public improvements from a contractor based on the original contract established by an administering contracting agency.
(2) As used in ORS 279A.210 (1)(a), 279A.215 (1)(a) and 279A.220 (1)(a), an administering contracting agency’s solicitation and award process uses source selection methods "substantially equivalent" to those identified in ORS 279B.055, 279B.060 or 279B.085 if the solicitation and award process:
(a) Calls for award of a contract on the basis of a lowest responsible bidder or a lowest and best bidder determination in the case of competitive bids, or on the basis of a determination of the proposer whose proposal is most advantageous based on evaluation factors set forth in the request for proposals in the case of competitive proposals;
(b) Does not permit the application of any geographic preference that is more favorable to bidders or proposers who reside in the jurisdiction or locality favored by the preference than the preferences provided in ORS 279A.120 (2); and
(c) Uses reasonably clear and precise specifications that promote suitability for the purposes intended and that reasonably encourage competition. [2003 c.794 §25; 2007 c.764 §4]