SENATE BILL 490
52nd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2015
INTRODUCED BY
Mimi Stewart
AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC PURCHASES; AMENDING THE PROCUREMENT CODE TO PROVIDE FOR GENDER EQUITY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. Section 13-1-21 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1979, Chapter 72, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:
"13-1-21. APPLICATION OF PREFERENCES.--
A. For the purposes of this section:
(1) "business" means a commercial enterprise carried on for the purpose of selling goods or services, including growing, producing, processing or distributing agricultural products;
(2) "formal bid process" means a competitive sealed bid process;
(3) "formal request for proposals process" means a competitive sealed proposal process, including a competitive sealed qualifications-based proposal process;
(4) "gender equity of wages and salaries" means a compilation of data from a business seeking to provide goods or services to a public body that includes information sufficient to determine if the business's wages and salaries paid to its employees are equitable in terms of gender;
[(4)] (5) "public body" means a department, commission, council, board, committee, institution, legislative body, agency, government corporation, educational institution or official of the executive, legislative or judicial branch of the government of the state or a political subdivision of the state and the agencies, instrumentalities and institutions thereof, including two-year post-secondary educational institutions, school districts, local school boards and all municipalities, including home-rule municipalities;
[(5)] (6) "recycled content goods" means supplies and materials composed twenty-five percent or more of recycled materials; provided that the recycled materials content meets or exceeds the minimum content standards required by bid specifications;
[(6)] (7) "resident business" means a business that has a valid resident business certificate issued by the taxation and revenue department pursuant to Section 13-1-22
NMSA 1978 but does not include a resident veteran business; and
[(7)] (8) "resident veteran business" means a business that has a valid resident veteran business certificate issued by the taxation and revenue department pursuant to Section 13-1-22 NMSA 1978.
B. Except as provided in Subsection C of this section, when a public body makes a purchase using a formal bid process, the public body shall deem a bid submitted by a:
(1) resident business to be five percent lower than the bid actually submitted;
(2) resident veteran business with annual revenues of one million dollars ($1,000,000) or less to be ten percent lower than the bid actually submitted;
(3) resident veteran business with annual revenues of more than one million dollars ($1,000,000) but less than five million dollars ($5,000,000) to be eight percent lower than the bid actually submitted subject to the limitation provided in Subsection [G] H of this section; and
(4) resident veteran business with annual revenues of five million dollars ($5,000,000) or more to be seven percent lower than the bid actually submitted subject to the limitation provided in Subsection [G] H of this section.
C. When a public body makes a purchase using a formal bid process and the bids are received for both recycled content goods and nonrecycled content goods, the public body shall deem:
(1) bids submitted for recycled content goods from any business, except a resident veteran business, to be five percent lower than the bids actually submitted;
(2) bids submitted for recycled content goods from a resident veteran business with annual revenues of one million dollars ($1,000,000) or less to be ten percent lower than the bids actually submitted;
(3) bids submitted for recycled content goods from a resident veteran business with annual revenues of more than one million dollars ($1,000,000) but less than five million dollars ($5,000,000) to be eight percent lower than the bids actually submitted subject to the limitation provided in Subsection [G] H of this section; and
(4) bids submitted for recycled content goods from a resident veteran business with annual revenues of five million dollars ($5,000,000) or more to be seven percent lower than the bids actually submitted subject to the limitation provided in Subsection [G] H of this section.
D. When a public body makes a purchase using a formal request for proposals process, not including contracts awarded on a point-based system, the public body shall award an additional:
(1) five percent of the total weight of all the factors used in evaluating the proposals to a resident business;
(2) ten percent of the total weight of all the factors used in evaluating the proposals to a resident veteran business that has annual revenues of one million dollars ($1,000,000) or less;
(3) eight percent of the total weight of all the factors used in evaluating the proposals to a resident veteran business that has annual revenues of more than one million dollars ($1,000,000) but less than five million dollars ($5,000,000) subject to the limitation provided in Subsection [G] H of this section; and
(4) seven percent of the total weight of all the factors used in evaluating the proposals to a resident veteran business that has annual revenues of five million dollars ($5,000,000) or more subject to the limitation provided in Subsection [G] H of this section.
E. When a public body makes a purchase using a formal request for proposals process, and the contract is awarded based on a point-based system, the public body shall award [an] additional [of the] points equivalent [of] to:
(1) five percent of the total possible points to a resident business;
(2) ten percent of the total possible points to a resident veteran business that has annual revenues of one million dollars ($1,000,000) or less;
(3) eight percent of the total possible points to a resident veteran business that has annual revenues of more than one million dollars ($1,000,000) but less than five million dollars ($5,000,000) subject to the limitation provided in Subsection [G] H of this section; and
(4) seven percent of the total possible points to a resident veteran business that has annual revenues of five million dollars ($5,000,000) or more subject to the limitation provided in Subsection [G] H of this section.
F. When a public body makes a purchase using a formal request for proposals process, the public body shall award an additional equivalent of five percent of the total possible points to a business that demonstrates gender equity in its payment of wages and salaries to its employees.
[F.] G. When a joint bid or joint proposal is submitted by a combination of resident veteran, resident or nonresident businesses, the preference provided pursuant to Subsection B, C, D or E of this section shall be calculated in proportion to the percentage of the contract, based on the dollar amount of the goods or services provided under the contract, that will be performed by each business as specified in the joint bid or proposal.
[G.] H. The preference pursuant to Paragraphs (3) and (4) of Subsection B of this section, Paragraphs (3) and (4) of Subsection C of this section, Paragraphs (3) and (4) of Subsection D of this section and Paragraphs (3) and (4) of Subsection E of this section shall be limited, in any calendar year, to an aggregate of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) in purchases by public bodies from all resident veteran businesses receiving preferences pursuant to the provisions of those paragraphs.
[H.] I. A public body shall not award a business both a resident business preference and a resident veteran business preference.
[I.] J. The procedures provided in Sections 13-1-172 through 13-1-183 NMSA 1978 or in an applicable purchasing ordinance apply to a protest to a public body concerning the awarding of a contract in violation of this section.
[J.] K. This section shall not apply when the expenditure includes federal funds for a specific purchase."
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