{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-50-5-50","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 50-5-50","heading":"Purposes and policies of part.","body":"The underlying purposes and policies of this part are:\n(1) To permit the continued development of centralized procurement policies and practices;\n(2) To control and reduce the cost of purchasing, leasing, renting, or otherwise procuring supplies, materials, services, and equipment through the use of centralized purchasing;\n(3) To ensure openness and accessibility by all qualified vendors to the state’s purchasing processes so as to achieve the lowest possible costs to the state through effective competition among such vendors;\n(4) To provide for timely, effective, and efficient service to using agencies and to vendors doing business with the state;\n(5) To ensure the fair and equitable treatment of all persons who deal with the procurement system of the state;\n(6) To provide for increased public confidence in the procedures followed in public procurement; and\n(7) To provide safeguards for the maintenance of a procurement system of quality and integrity.","path":["TITLE 50 State Government","CHAPTER 5 Department of Administrative Services","Article 3 State Purchasing","PART 1 General Authority, Duties, and Procedure"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.50.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:58Z","sha256":"c10a2e09c86aedb51e5fc9ef7618c70033718b7abf3d211c87c84bfc1168df1d","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-50-5-30-through-50-5-39","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-50-5-51"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}