Section 2161.252 - Agency Determination Regarding Subcontracting Opportunities; Business Subcontracting Plan(a) Each state agency that considers entering into a contract with an expected value of $100,000 or more shall, before the agency solicits bids, proposals, offers, or other applicable expressions of interest for the contract, determine whether there will be subcontracting opportunities under the contract. If the state agency determines that there is that probability, the agency shall require that each bid, proposal, offer, or other applicable expression of interest for the contract include a historically underutilized business subcontracting plan.(b) When a state agency requires a historically underutilized business subcontracting plan under Subsection (a), a bid, proposal, offer, or other applicable expression of interest for the contract must contain a plan to be considered responsive.Tex. Gov't. Code § 2161.252
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1499, Sec. 2.10, eff. 9/1/1999.