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      Sec. 4d-45. Review of contracts and amendments entered into pursuant to Department of Administrative Services requests for proposals. (a) No contracts or amendments to contracts for information system or telecommunication system facilities, equipment or services, which are entered into by any state agency (1) pursuant to the request for proposal issued by the Department of Administrative Services dated February 21, 1997, or (2) in the event such request for proposal is withdrawn, suspended or superseded, pursuant to any similar request for proposal issued by the Department of Administrative Services or the Department of Information Technology, shall be effective except as provided in this section and sections 4d-46 and 4d-47.

      (b) Upon the execution of any such contract or amendment, and upon the execution of any subsequent contract or amendment, the state agency shall promptly file the contract or amendment with the State Auditors.

      (c) Not later than seventy-five days after any such contract or amendment is filed with the State Auditors, such auditors (1) shall conduct an independent evaluation of the contract or amendment to determine whether the provisions of the contract or amendment serve the best interests of the state, including, but not limited to, (A) efficiency, (B) economy, (C) contractor qualifications, including, but not limited to, capacity for performance and accountability, and (D) effective delivery of services, and (2) shall submit a report on their findings and conclusions, and the contract or amendment, to the General Assembly, through the clerks of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The State Auditors may, at any time before or after receipt of any such contract or amendment, execute contracts with independent consultants for assistance in conducting such evaluation and preparing such report.

      (d) Upon receipt of a report and a contract or amendment from the State Auditors under subsection (c) of this section, the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the Senate shall refer the report and contract or amendment to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies and government administration, for their review. Such contract or amendment shall take effect forty-five days after the State Auditors submit the report and contract or amendment to the General Assembly unless the General Assembly rejects such contract or amendment as a whole by a three-fifths vote of either house.

      (S.A. 97-21, S. 83, 106; P.A. 97-322, S. 2, 9; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9, S. 45, 50.)

      History: S.A. 97-21, P.A. 97-322 and June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9 effective July 1, 1997.