(B) For purposes of this section, a finding for recovery is unresolved unless one of the following criteria applies:

1. (1) The money identified in the finding for recovery is paid in full to the state agency or political subdivision to whom the money was owed;
2. (2) The debtor has entered into a repayment plan that is approved by the attorney general and the state agency or political subdivision to whom the money identified in the finding for recovery is owed. A repayment plan may include a provision permitting a state agency or political subdivision to withhold payment to a debtor for goods, services, or construction provided to or for the state agency or political subdivision pursuant to a contract that is entered into with the debtor after the date the finding for recovery was issued.
3. (3) The attorney general waives a repayment plan described in division (B)(2) of this section for good cause;
4. (4) The debtor and state agency or political subdivision to whom the money identified in the finding for recovery is owed have agreed to a payment plan established through an enforceable settlement agreement.

5. (5) The state agency or political subdivision desiring to enter into a contract with a debtor certifies, and the attorney general concurs, that all of the following are true:

   1. (a) Essential services the state agency or political subdivision is seeking to obtain from the debtor cannot be provided by any other person besides the debtor;
   2. (b) Awarding a contract to the debtor for the essential services described in division (B)(5)(a) of this section is in the best interest of the state;
   3. (c) Good faith efforts have been made to collect the money identified in the finding of recovery.
6. (6) The debtor has commenced an action to contest the finding for recovery and a final determination on the action has not yet been reached.

(F) The prohibition of division (A) of this section and the requirement of division (E) of this section do not apply with respect to the companies, payments, or agreements described in divisions (F)(1) and (2) of this section, or in the circumstance described in division (F)(3) of this section.

1. (1) A bonding company or a company authorized to transact the business of insurance in this state, a self-insurance pool, joint self-insurance pool, risk management program, or joint risk management program, unless a court has entered a final judgment against the company and the company has not yet satisfied the final judgment.
2. (2) To medicaid provider agreements under the medicaid program.
3. (3) When federal law dictates that a specified entity provide the goods, services, or construction for which a contract is being awarded, regardless of whether that entity would otherwise be prohibited from entering into the contract pursuant to this section.

(G)

1. (1) This section applies only to contracts for goods, services, or construction that satisfy the criteria in either division (G)(1)(a) or (b) of this section. This section may apply to contracts for goods, services, or construction that satisfy the criteria in division (G)(1)(c) of this section, provided that the contracts also satisfy the criteria in either division (G)(1)(a) or (b) of this section.

   1. (a) The cost for the goods, services, or construction provided under the contract is estimated to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars.
   2. (b) The aggregate cost for the goods, services, or construction provided under multiple contracts entered into by the particular state agency and a single person or the particular political subdivision and a single person within the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year within which a contract is being entered into by that same state agency and the same single person or the same political subdivision and the same single person, exceeded fifty thousand dollars.
   3. (c) The contract is a renewal of a contract previously entered into and renewed pursuant to that preceding contract.
2. (2) This section does not apply to employment contracts.

(H) As used in this section:

1. (1) "State agency" has the same meaning as in section 9.66 of the Revised Code.
2. (2) "Political subdivision" means a political subdivision as defined in section 9.82 of the Revised Code that has received more than fifty thousand dollars of state money in the current fiscal year or the preceding fiscal year.
3. (3) "Finding for recovery" means a determination issued by the auditor of state, contained in a report the auditor of state gives to the attorney general pursuant to section 117.28 of the Revised Code, that public money has been illegally expended, public money has been collected but not been accounted for, public money is due but has not been collected, or public property has been converted or misappropriated.
4. (4) "Debtor" means a person against whom a finding for recovery has been issued.
5. (5) "Person" means the person named in the finding for recovery.
6. (6) "State money" does not include funds the state receives from another source and passes through to a political subdivision.