§103D-802  Cooperative purchasingauthorized.  A public procurement unit may either participate in, sponsor,conduct, or administer a cooperative purchasing agreement for the procurementof goods, services, or construction with one or more public procurement units,external procurement units, or nonprofit private procurement units pursuant torules adopted by the policy board and an agreement entered into between theparticipants.  The cooperative purchasing may include, but shall not be limitedto, joint or multi-party contracts between public procurement units, and statepublic procurement unit requirements contracts which are made available tolocal public procurement units.  Cooperative purchasing agreements may beexempt from preferences pursuant to part X. [L Sp 1993, c 8, pt of §2; am L1994, c 186, §13; am L 1997, c 352, §15]