This chapter applies to information technology procurements conducted by the department, including information technology procurements the department conducts on behalf of another state agency. When the department is conducting an information technology procurement on behalf of another state agency and the procurement exposes the state to risks for which the contractual limitation of vendor liability outlined in rule 11-120.5 (8A) is not appropriate, the agency head of the other state agency shall make the decisions regarding contractual limitation of vendor liability outlined in subrule 120.4(2). This chapter does not apply to procurements conducted by another state agency on its own behalf.
Iowa Admin. Code r. 11-120.3