When used in this chapter, unless the context indicates a different meaning:

1. (1) “State agency” includes any officer, department, board, council, commission, institution or other agency of the Executive Department of the state government;
2. (2) “Supplies”, “materials” and “equipment” mean any and all articles of personal property furnished to or used by any state agency, including all printing, binding, publication of laws, stationery, forms, and reports;
3. (3) “Contractual services” means any and all laundry and cleaning service, pest control service, janitorial service, security service, the rental and repair, or maintenance, of equipment, machinery and other state-owned personal property, advertising and photostating, mimeographing, and other service arrangements where the services are provided by persons other than state employees;
4. (4) “Competitive bidding” means the submission of prices by persons, firms or corporations competing for a contract to provide supplies, materials, equipment or contractual services, under a procedure in which the contracting authority does not negotiate prices;
5. (5) “Competitive negotiation” means a procedure for contracting for supplies, materials, equipment or contractual services, in which (A) proposals are solicited from qualified suppliers by a request for proposals, and (B) changes may be negotiated in proposals and prices after being submitted;
6. (6) “Bidder” means a person, firm or corporation submitting a competitive bid in response to a solicitation; and
7. (7) “Proposer” means a person, firm or corporation submitting a proposal in response to a request for proposals.

(1949 Rev., S. 250; March, 1950, S. 90d; 1963, P.A. 66, S. 2; 1967, P.A. 257; P.A. 77-444, S. 1; P.A. 82-99, S. 1, 3; P.A. 88-297, S. 2; P.A. 90-252, S. 1, 10; P.A. 93-42, S. 2, 4; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9, S. 18, 50; P.A. 00-66, S. 10.)

History: 1963 act deleted telephone service from definition of contractual services; 1967 act redefined “contractual services” to include advertising photostating, mimeographing, key punching and other machine service arrangements not provided by state employees; P.A. 77-444 included janitorial and security services in definition of “contractual services”, excluded purchase of space or time from consideration as advertising contractual service and deleted gas, water, electric light and power services from definition; P.A. 82-99 removed former exception of advertising space or time from definition of contractual services; P.A. 88-297 substituted “data entry, data processing” for “keypunching” and added definitions for “competitive bidding”, “competitive negotiation”, “bidder” and “proposer”; Sec. 4-109 transferred to Sec. 4a-50 in 1989; P.A. 90-252 extended applicability of definitions in this section to Sec. 4a-59a; P.A. 93-42 redefined “supplies”, “materials” and “equipment” to include electronic data processing equipment and telecommunications equipment and added “telecommunications” to definition of contractual services, effective May 5, 1993; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9 redefined “supplies”, “materials” and “equipment” by deleting “electronic data processing equipment and telecommunications equipment” and redefined “contractual services” by deleting “data entry, data processing, telecommunications”, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 00-66 divided section into Subdivs.