New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS › Chapter 34 - LOCAL PUBLIC AND PUBLIC SCHOOL CONTRACTS LAWS › Subchapter 7 - COOPERATIVE PURCHASING › Section 5:34-7.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, as used in this subchapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Application" means the forms and all supporting documents for
				  creation, amendment or renewal of a cooperative purchasing system.
"Commodity resale system" means a purchasing system in which a
				  local contracting unit purchases either gasoline, diesel fuel, snow removal
				  chemicals, public works materials and supplies, including road and roadway
				  construction materials, or any other such materials as may be approved by the
				  Director for its own consumption and then sells all or a portion thereof to another
				  local contracting unit.
"Contracting unit" means any county; municipality; board of
				  education; or any board, commission, committee, authority or agency, which is not a
				  State board, commission or committee, authority or agency, and which has
				  administrative jurisdiction over any district, project, or facility, included or
				  operating in whole or in part within the territorial boundaries of any county or
				  municipality which exercises functions which are appropriate for the exercise by one
				  or more units of local government or board of education and which has statutory
				  power to make purchases and enter into contracts awarded by a contracting agent for
				  the provision or performance of goods or services.
"Cooperative pricing system" means a purchasing system in which a
				  local contracting unit advertises for bids and awards a master contract to a
				  successful vendor for its own quantities and the estimated quantities submitted by
				  the individual registered members.
"Cooperative purchasing system" means a cooperative pricing
				  system, joint purchasing system, commodity resale system, county cooperative
				  contract purchasing system or regional cooperative pricing system which has been
				  approved and registered pursuant to this subchapter.
"County cooperative contract purchasing system" means a
				  cooperative purchasing system that shall only be formed by a county and in which the
				  county advertises for bids and awards a contract to the successful vendor.
"Energy" means gas supply service or gas related service or
				  electric generation service or electric related service as set forth in the Electric
				  Discount and Energy Competition Act (
				  P.L.
				  1999, c. 23 ) and the
				  Interim Government Energy Aggregation Program Standards promulgated by the Board of
				  Public Utilities on June 24, 1999.
"Form CCCP-1917" means Request For Registration Or Modification of
				  a County Cooperative Contract Purchasing System which contains the following
				  information: action requested; name of the county cooperative contract purchasing
				  system; name of contract, address, and phone number of lead agency; and
				  certification of compliance with
				  40A:11-1 et seq.
"Form CP-2001" means Request For Registration Or Modification of a
				  Cooperative Purchasing System which contains the following information: action
				  requested; name of cooperative purchasing system; name of contact, address, and
				  phone number of lead agency; name of participating contracting units affected by
				  request; and certification of compliance with
				  40A:11-1 et seq. and 18A:18A-1 et
				  seq., as appropriate.
"Form CP-2060" means a Request for Registration or Modification of
				  a Commodity Resale System which contains the following information: action
				  requested, identification of the lead agency (seller), participating contracting
				  units (purchaser) and commodity being resold.
"Joint purchasing system" means a cooperative purchasing system in
				  which the lead agency serves as the purchasing agent for the membership of the
				  system with all of the duties and responsibilities attendant thereto. The lead
				  agency advertises for bids and awards a single contract to a vendor providing for
				  the payment to the contractor for its own needs and for the needs of the
				  participating registered members of the system. The only contractual relationship is
				  between the lead agency and the vendor.
"Lead agency" means the contracting unit which is responsible for
				  the management of the cooperative purchasing system.
"Regional cooperative pricing system" means a cooperative pricing
				  system composed of two or more registered cooperative pricing systems and their
				  participating contracting units which have agreed to join together for the provision
				  and performance of goods and services, including the purchase of energy.
"Registered member" means a contracting unit which has been
				  approved by the Director for participation in a cooperative purchasing
				  system.
"Snow removal chemicals" means snow grits, calcium chloride (rock
				  salt), sand or similar substance used for deicing or improving vehicular traction on
				  snow or ice covered roadways.