Arizona Administrative Code › Title 7 - EDUCATION › Chapter 2 - STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION › Article 10 - SCHOOL DISTRICT PROCUREMENT › Part I - IN GENERAL › Section R7-2-1001 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In Articles 10 and 11, unless the context otherwise
					 requires:
1. "Acceptance period" means
				  the period of time specified in the solicitation that a bid or proposal is
				  irrevocable, except as specified in
				  R7-2-1030.
2. "Actual energy production" means the
				  actual amount of energy that flows from the energy production measure on an
				  annual basis as measured by a meter in kilowatt hours alternating
				  current.
3. "Advantageous to the
				  school district" means in the best interest of the school district, but does
				  not necessarily mean lowest bid/ cost.
4. "Affiliate" means any person whose
				  governing instruments require it to be bound by the decision of another person
				  or whose governing board includes enough voting representatives of the other
				  person to cause or prevent action, whether or not the power is exercised. It
				  also may include persons doing business under a variety of names, or where
				  there is a parent-subsidiary relationship between persons.
5. "Alternative project delivery methods for
				  construction" means construction-manager-at-risk, design-build, and
				  job-order-contracting construction services.
6. "Architect services," "engineer services,"
				  "land surveying services," "geologist services" and "landscape architect
				  services" mean those professional services within the scope of the practice of
				  those services as provided in A.R.S. Title 32, Chapter 1, Article 1.
7. "Award" means a determination by the
				  school district that it is entering into a contract with one or more bidders or
				  offerors.
8. "Bid" means a response
				  to an invitation for bids and includes an offer to contract with the school
				  district.
9. "Bidder" means a
				  person submitting a bid in response to an invitation for bids.
10. "Brand name or equal specification" means
				  a written description that uses one or more manufacturers' names or catalog
				  numbers to describe the standard of quality, performance, and other
				  characteristics needed to meet the school district's requirements, and that
				  provides for the submission of equivalent products.
11. "Brand name specification" means a
				  written description limited to one or more items by manufacturers' names or
				  catalog numbers.
12. "Business"
				  means any corporation, partnership, individual, sole proprietorship, joint
				  stock company, joint venture or any other private legal entity.
13. "Change order" means a written order that
				  is approved by the governing board and that directs the contractor to make
				  changes that the changes clause of the contract authorizes the governing board
				  to order.
14. "Clergy" means a
				  minister of a religion.
15.
				  "Coefficient" means the contractor's price adjustment to the unit price in a
				  job order contract. Several coefficients may apply to the unit price
				  book.
16. Construction:
a. Means the process of building, altering,
				  repairing, improving or demolishing any school district structure or building,
				  or other public improvements of any kind to any public real property.
b. Construction does not include:
i. The routine operation, routine repair or
				  routine maintenance of existing facilities, structures, buildings or real
				  property.
ii. The investigation,
				  characterization, restoration or remediation due to an environmental issue of
				  existing facilities, structures, buildings or real property.