Idaho Statutes

(2)  Procurement. Obtaining property for state use by lease, rent, or any manner other than by purchase or gift.

(3)  Property. Goods, services, parts, supplies and equipment, both tangible and intangible, including, but nonexclusively, designs, plans, programs, systems, techniques and any rights and interests in such property.

(4)  Goods. Items of personal property, not qualifying as equipment, parts or supplies.

(5)  Services. Personal services, in excess of personnel regularly employed for whatever duration and/or covered by personnel system standards, for which bidding is not prohibited or made impractical by statute, rules or generally accepted ethical practices.

(6)  Parts. Items of personal property acquired for repair or replacement of unserviceable existing items.

(7)  Supplies. Items of personal property having an expendable quality or during their normal use are consumed and which require or suggest acquisition in bulk.

(8)  Equipment. Items of personal property which have a normal useful life expectancy of two (2) or more years.

(9)  Component. An item of property normally assembled with other items into a unified productive whole at the site of use, which items belong to functional classes that may be interchangeable units of similar function but differing operational or productive capabilities.

(10) Vendor. A person or entity capable of supplying property to the state.

(11) Bidder. A vendor who has submitted a bid on a specific item or items of property to be acquired by the state.

(12) Lowest responsible bidder. The responsible bidder whose bid reflects the lowest acquisition price to be paid by the state; except that when specifications are valued or comparative performance examinations are conducted, the results of such examinations and the relative score of valued specifications will be weighed, as set out in the specifications, in determining the lowest acquisition price.

(13) Contractor. A bidder who has been awarded an acquisition contract.

(14) Agency. All officers, departments, divisions, bureaus, boards, commissions and institutions of the state, including the public utilities commission, but excluding other legislative and judicial branches of government, and excluding the governor, the lieutenant governor, the secretary of state, the state controller, the state treasurer, the attorney general, and the superintendent of public instruction, and, as provided in section 67-5728, Idaho Code, excluding Lewis-Clark State College, Idaho State University, Boise State University and Eastern Idaho Technical College.

(15) Bid. A written offer to perform a contract to purchase or supply property or services in response to an invitation for bid or request for proposal.

(16) Recyclable. Materials that still have useful physical, chemical or biological properties after serving their original purposes and can, therefore, be reasonably reused or recycled for the same or other purposes.

(17) Recycled-content product. A product containing postconsumer waste and/or secondary waste as defined in this section.

(18) Postconsumer waste. A finished material which would normally be disposed of as a solid waste, having completed its life cycle as a consumer item.

(19) Secondary waste. Fragments of products or finished products of a manufacturing process, which has converted a virgin resource into a commodity of real economic value and may include a postconsumer waste.

(20) Open contract. A contract awarded by the state of Idaho through the division of purchasing to one (1) or more vendors who have agreed to allow all agencies to procure or purchase specified property under the terms and conditions set forth in the contract.

(2)  Procurement. Obtaining property for state use by lease, rent, or any manner other than by purchase or gift.

(3)  Property. Goods, services, parts, supplies and equipment, both tangible and intangible, including, but nonexclusively, designs, plans, programs, systems, techniques and any rights and interests in such property.

(4)  Goods. Items of personal property, not qualifying as equipment, parts or supplies.

(5)  Services. Personal services, in excess of personnel regularly employed for whatever duration and/or covered by personnel system standards, for which bidding is not prohibited or made impractical by statute, rules or generally accepted ethical practices.

(6)  Parts. Items of personal property acquired for repair or replacement of unserviceable existing items.

(7)  Supplies. Items of personal property having an expendable quality or during their normal use are consumed and which require or suggest acquisition in bulk.

(8)  Equipment. Items of personal property which have a normal useful life expectancy of two (2) or more years.

(9)  Component. An item of property normally assembled with other items into a unified productive whole at the site of use, which items belong to functional classes that may be interchangeable units of similar function but differing operational or productive capabilities.

(10) Vendor. A person or entity capable of supplying property to the state.

(11) Bidder. A vendor who has submitted a bid on a specific item or items of property to be acquired by the state.

(12) Lowest responsible bidder. The responsible bidder whose bid reflects the lowest acquisition price to be paid by the state; except that when specifications are valued or comparative performance examinations are conducted, the results of such examinations and the relative score of valued specifications will be weighed, as set out in the specifications, in determining the lowest acquisition price.

(13) Contractor. A bidder who has been awarded an acquisition contract.

(14) Agency. All officers, departments, divisions, bureaus, boards, commissions and institutions of the state, including the public utilities commission, but excluding other legislative and judicial branches of government, and excluding the governor, the lieutenant governor, the secretary of state, the state controller, the state treasurer, the attorney general, and the superintendent of public instruction.

(15) Bid. A written offer to perform a contract to purchase or supply property or services in response to an invitation for bid or request for proposal.

(16) Recyclable. Materials that still have useful physical, chemical or biological properties after serving their original purposes and can, therefore, be reasonably reused or recycled for the same or other purposes.

(17) Recycled-content product. A product containing postconsumer waste and/or secondary waste as defined in this section.

(18) Postconsumer waste. A finished material which would normally be disposed of as a solid waste, having completed its life cycle as a consumer item.

(19) Secondary waste. Fragments of products or finished products of a manufacturing process, which has converted a virgin resource into a commodity of real economic value and may include a postconsumer waste.