Tex. Utilities Code § 56.108: SELECTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY ACCESS SERVICE CARRIER.

(a) The commission shall select one telecommunications carrier to provide the statewide telecommunications relay access service.

(b) The commission shall make a written award of the contract to the telecommunications carrier whose proposal is the most advantageous to this state, considering:

(1) price;

(2) the interests of the community of persons with an impairment of hearing or speech in having access to a high quality and technologically advanced telecommunications system; and

(3) any other factor listed in the commission's request for proposals.

(c) The commission shall consider each proposal in a manner that does not disclose the contents of the proposal to a telecommunications carrier making a competing proposal.

(d) The commission's evaluation of a telecommunications carrier's proposal shall include the:

(1) charges for the service;

(2) service enhancements proposed by the carrier;

(3) technological sophistication of the network proposed by the carrier; and

(4) date proposed for beginning the service.

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.