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Secondary Purchases - Types of Purchasers and Purchases
Secondary purchases are purchases made by a state purchasing agency utilizing the competitive procurement of another state agency.
Purpose:
To coordinate and streamline the purchase of health and human services. Secondary purchases accomplish this by:
- Enabling purchasing agencies to coordinate purchases of health and human services by combining their requirements as primary and secondary purchasers.
- State purchasing agencies issue a single RFP and applicants respond with a single proposal.
Two Purchaser roles: Primary and Secondary Purchasers
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Primary Purchaser: requires the largest share of the services.
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Secondary Purchaser: requires the lesser share of the services
Two Kinds of Secondary Purchases
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Planned Secondary Purchase
When two or more purchasing agencies need to procure substantially the same health and human services they may issue a single RFP. -
After-the-Fact Secondary Purchase
A purchasing agency may purchase a competitively procured service already procured by another purchasing agency.
| Planned Secondary Purchase |
After-the-Fact Secondary Purchase |
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Used when the purchasers knows they are likely to need the service. |
Used when an unanticipated need for a service arises that another state agency has procured by the competitive method of procurement. |
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Quantity of services purchased by secondary purchaser is less than the primary purchaser. |
Quantity of services purchased by secondary purchaser must be no greater than 30% or $75,000, (whichever is lesser) of the total services purchased by the primary and secondary purchasers. |
See
HAR 3-143-608
Procedures for Planned Secondary Purchases
Procedures for After-the-Fact Secondary Purchases
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