Section R19-3-527. Bid Contract Award

A.      The procurement officer shall award the contract to the lowest responsible and responsive offeror whose offer conforms in all material respects to the requirements and criteria set forth in the solicitation. Unless otherwise provided in the solicitation, an award may be made for an individual line item, any group of line items, or all line items.

B.       The procurement officer shall keep a record showing the basis for determining the successful offeror or offerors in the pro- curement file.

C.      The procurement officer shall notify the Director and the Lot- tery Commission of an award. The award will be final and binding unless rejected by the Lottery Commission at a meet- ing held within 14 calendar days after the award is communi- cated to the Commissioners. The procurement officer shall send notice of the meeting to all offerors.

D.      After an award becomes effective and binding, the procure- ment officer shall return any bid security provided by the offeror.

E.       Within 10 days after an award is effective and binding, the procurement officer shall make the procurement file, including all offers, available for public inspection, redacting informa- tion that is confidential under R19-3-503.

Historical Note

Adopted as an emergency effective June 5, 1985, pursu- ant to A.R.S. § 41-1003, valid for only 90 days (Supp. 85- 3). Adopted as a permanent rule effective August 29, 1985 (Supp. 85-4). Former Section R4-37-527 renum- bered to R4-37-524, new Section R4-37-527 renumbered from R4-37-530 effective May 7, 1990 (Supp. 90-2).

R19-3-527 recodified from R4-37-527 (Supp. 95-1). For- mer Section R19-3-527 renumbered to R19-3-529 and amended; new Section R19-3-527 renumbered from R19- 3-525 and amended effective December 16, 1997 (Supp.

97-4). Section repealed; new Section made by final rulemaking at 12 A.A.R. 4495, effective January 6, 2007

(Supp. 06-4).