6-24-19: Procurement; competitive proposals.

The authority shall enter into a contract for a procurement after evaluating competitive proposals and shall not design requests for proposals to provide only for sole source contracts. The authority shall conduct its own procurement, but the authority shall conduct all procurement in accordance with the Procurement Code [13-1-28 to 13-1-199 NMSA 1978]. In all procurement decisions, the authority shall take into account the particularly sensitive nature of the lottery and shall act to promote and ensure security, honesty, fairness and integrity in the operation and administration of the lottery and the objectives of raising revenue for the public purposes of the New Mexico Lottery Act. Procurements shall not be artificially divided to reduce the cost of the procurement below the procurement thresholds provided in the Procurement Code.