Section 5-22-23-6 - Requirements of a system solicitation by certain purchasing agents(a) This section applies to a purchasing agent for the following: (1) A community corrections advisory board.(2) A juvenile detention center.(3) A juvenile detention facility.(4) A county jail. This section does not apply to a purchasing agent for a county with a population less than seventy-five thousand (75,000).
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, a solicitation by a purchasing agent: (1) must include any security and fraud control services considered necessary by the purchasing agency, including the use of collect calling services as the sole means of confined offender communications with the general population; and(2) may not solicit: (A) a per call service charge;(B) a per minute rate; or(C) a commission rate; that exceeds the terms of a contract between the state and a telecommunications provider for the same service under the most recent solicitation submitted by the department under this article.
As added by P.L. 65-2002, SEC.1.