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...The life insurance investment fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of amounts from state agencies, life insurance premium refunds received by the state, and other receipts related to the state's life insurance benefit program. The fund shall be used to pay the costs of the state's life insurance benefit program. All investment earnings of the life insurance investment fund shall ...

...There is hereby created the state employee child support fund. The fund shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state, but shall not be part of the state treasury. The fund shall consist of all money withheld or deducted from salaries and wages of state officials and employees pursuant to a withholding or deduction notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code for forwarding to the office of child...

...The department of administrative services may provide for regular deductions from the salary or wages of each state officer or employee for an individual retirement arrangement intended to obtain deferral of income for income tax purposes, provided that an officer or employee requesting such deductions is one of a group that constitutes at least ten per cent of all the officers and employees of the same state agency ...

...(A) The director of administrative services may debar a vendor from consideration for contract awards upon a finding based upon a reasonable belief that the vendor has done any of the following: (1) Abused the selection process by repeatedly withdrawing bids or proposals before purchase orders or contracts are issued or failing to accept orders based upon firm bids; (2) Failed to substantially perform a contract ac...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the building improvement fund. The fund shall retain the interest earned. (B) The fund shall consist of any money transferred or deposited into the fund pursuant to section 125.28 of the Revised Code. (C) The fund shall be used for major maintenance or improvements required in facilities maintained by the department of administrative services.

...(A) The director of administrative services shall determine the reimbursable cost of space in state-owned or state-leased facilities and shall collect reimbursements for that cost. (B) The director may provide building maintenance services and tenant improvement services to any state agency and may collect reimbursements for the cost of providing those services. (C) All money collected by the department of administ...

...Notwithstanding section 125.28 of the Revised Code, the department of administrative services may operate or contract for child care services in any facility owned or maintained by the department or any other state agency if the director of administrative services determines such space is available; such space shall be used to provide child care services to a group of individuals of whom at least fifty per cent...

...The department of administrative services shall create and administer an online computer network system that allows persons to electronically file business reply forms and, as authorized in the Revised Code, tax information with state agencies or political subdivisions.

...(A) The department of administrative services shall have supervision of all public printing except as follows: (1) Printing for the general assembly shall be the sole responsibility of the clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives unless the clerk of the senate or the clerk of the house of representatives chooses either of the options specified in section 101.523 or 101.524 of the Revised Cod...

...(A) The department of administrative services may establish an enterprise data management and analytics program to gather, combine, and analyze data provided by one or more agencies to measure the outcome of state-funded programs, develop policies to promote the effective, efficient, and best use of state resources, and to identify, prevent, or eliminate the fraudulent use of state funds, state resources, or state pr...

...If the department of administrative services is of the opinion that any bids or proposals should be rejected in the interest of the state, it may reject any or all bids or proposals and advertise the invitation to bid or the request for proposals a second time. If after the second advertisement for bids or proposals the department determines that any or all bids or proposals are not in the interest of the state, it m...

...If required by the department of administrative services, a bid or proposal for a term contract for printing goods and services, including final printed product, shall be accompanied by a bond to the state, in a sum specified in the invitation to bid or request for proposals, executed by the offeror, with either one corporate or two personal sureties, satisfactory to the department, conditioned for the performance of...

...If the contractor fails to furnish printing goods and services according to the terms of the contract, the department of administrative services shall purchase the required printing goods and services on the open market after notifying the contractor in writing of such action, and the cost in excess of the contract shall be collected from the contractor or the posted bond, if a bond was provided.

...(A) No agency, officer, board, or commission, except the clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives, shall print or cause to be printed at the public expense, any report, bulletin, document, or pamphlet, unless such report, bulletin, document, or pamphlet is first submitted to, and the printing thereof approved by, the department of administrative services. If the department approves the printi...

...The department of administrative services shall see that any printing services are executed in accordance with law. The printing of all publications approved by the department of administrative services shall be ordered through it and it shall see that the number of copies ordered is received from the printer and delivered to the proper department.

...The department of administrative services shall keep detailed accounts of all state office reproduction services, printing and binding.

...(A) The department of administrative services shall maintain facilities to perform office reproduction services for all boards, commissions, or departments. Upon written application to the department of administrative services, permission may be granted to a board, commission, or department to perform such services outside the central facility and such permission shall state the extent of the services which the depar...

...Each bid or proposal for state printing shall state specifically the price at which the offeror will undertake to provide the finished product as specified in the invitation to bid or request for proposals, including the necessary binding covered by such bid or proposal.

...After careful examination and computation of each bid, within thirty days the department of administrative services shall award the contract for such printing to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, in accordance with section 9.312 of the Revised Code, having proper facilities to ensure prompt performance of the work. No contract shall be awarded unless it contains an agreement for the completion of the work...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, all printing under sections 125.43 to 125.76 of the Revised Code, shall be executed pursuant to section 125.11 of the Revised Code. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to printing contracts requiring special, security paper of a unique nature if compliance with division (A) will result in an excessive price for the product or acquiring a disproporti...

...The department of administrative services shall promptly notify each successful offeror of the acceptance of the offeror's bid or proposal for state printing. If such offeror fails to execute the contract because of death or other cause, or if the offeror fails to execute the work required by the contract in a proper manner and with reasonable promptness, or the contract is abandoned, or its execution is temporarily ...

...As used in sections 125.60 to 125.6012 of the Revised Code: (A) "Community rehabilitation program" means an agency that: (1) Is organized under the laws of the United States or this state such that no part of its net income inures to the benefit of any shareholder or other individual; (2) Is certified as a sheltered workshop, if applicable, by the wage and hour division of the United States department of labor; (...

...The director of administrative services shall establish the office of procurement from community rehabilitation programs within the department of administrative services. The director shall designate an employee of the department to serve as administrator of the office.

...(A) The department of developmental disabilities, the department of mental health and addiction services, the department of job and family services, the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency, and any other state or governmental agency or community rehabilitation program responsible for the provision of rehabilitation and vocational educational services to persons with work-limiting disabilities ma...

...(A) The office of procurement from community rehabilitation programs shall do the following in addition to other duties specified in sections 125.60 to 125.6012 of the Revised Code: (1) Establish, maintain, and periodically update a procurement list of approved supplies and services available from qualified nonprofit agencies; (2) Monitor the procurement practices of government ordering offices to ensure com...