§103D-802  Cooperative purchasing
authorized.  A public procurement unit may either participate in, sponsor,
conduct, or administer a cooperative purchasing agreement for the procurement
of goods, services, or construction with one or more public procurement units,
external procurement units, or nonprofit private procurement units pursuant to
rules adopted by the policy board and an agreement entered into between the
participants.  The cooperative purchasing may include, but shall not be limited
to, joint or multi-party contracts between public procurement units, and state
public procurement unit requirements contracts which are made available to
local public procurement units.  Cooperative purchasing agreements may be
exempt from preferences pursuant to part X. [L Sp 1993, c 8, pt of §2; am L
1994, c 186, §13; am L 1997, c 352, §15]