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...As used in this section and sections 125.092 and 125.093 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agricultural materials" means agricultural-based materials or residues, including plant, animal, and marine materials or residues, used in the manufacture of commercial or industrial nonfood products. (B) "Biobased product" means a product determined by the United States secretary of agriculture to be a commercial or industria...

...plies, the department of administrative services, other state agencies, and state institutions of higher education shall purchase biobased products in accordance with the biobased product preference program established by the director of administrative services under this section. (B) Not later than one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this section, the director shall establish a biobased produ...

...eafter, the director of administrative services shall prepare and submit to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives a report that describes the number and types of biobased products purchased under section 125.092 of the Revised Code and the amount of money spent by the department of administrative services and other state agencies for those biobased products.

...(A) The department of administrative services may require that all competitive sealed bids, competitive sealed proposals, and bids received in a reverse auction be accompanied by a performance bond or other financial assurance acceptable to the director of administrative services, in the sum and with the sureties it prescribes, payable to the state, and conditioned that the person submitting the bid or proposal, if t...

...ction, the department of administrative services or the state agency responsible for evaluating a contract for the purchase of products or services shall evaluate the bids and offers received according to the criteria and procedures established pursuant to division (B) of section 125.09 of the Revised Code for determining if a product is mined, excavated, produced, manufactured, raised, or grown in the United States,...

...(A) Every contract for or on behalf of the state or any of its political subdivisions for any purchase shall contain provisions similar to those required by section 153.59 of the Revised Code in the case of construction contracts by which the contractor agrees to both of the following: (1) That, in the hiring of employees for the performance of work under the contract or any subcontract, no contractor or subcontrac...

... (B) The department of administrative services shall establish and maintain a single searchable web site, accessible by the public at no cost, that includes all of the following information for each state award: (1) The name of the entity receiving the award; (2) The amount of the award; (3) Information on the award, the agency or other instrumentality of the state that is providing the award, and the commodi...

...As used in sections 125.12 to 125.14 of the Revised Code: (A) "Excess supplies" means any supplies that have a remaining useful life, but that are no longer needed by the agency that possesses them. (B) "Supplies" means all personal property owned by the state, including, but not limited to, equipment and materials. (C) "Surplus supplies" means any supplies no longer having any use to the state, including obsolete...

...any equipment, materials, supplies, or services from the department of administrative services shall make acquisition in the manner and upon forms prescribed by the director of administrative services and shall reimburse the department for the equipment, materials, supplies, or services, including a reasonable sum to cover the department's administrative costs and costs relating to energy efficiency and conser...

...The director of administrative services shall establish the state information technology investment board within the department of administrative services. The board shall consist of representatives from various state elective offices and state agencies, including the office of budget and management. The board shall identify and recommend to the state chief information officer opportunities for consolidation an...

...wing: (a) The TikTok application and service or any successor application or service developed or provided by ByteDance limited or an entity owned by ByteDance limited; (b) The WeChat application and service or any successor application or service developed or provided by Tencent holdings limited or an entity owned by Tencent holdings limited; (c) Any application or service owned by an entity located in Chin...

...The department of administrative services shall make available to boards of education and local governments all information about energy efficiency and energy conservation purchasing measures developed by the department or other state agency. The department shall develop and conduct orientation and training programs concerning energy efficiency and energy conservation purchasing measures for all state, board of educ...

...tion, the director of administrative services shall establish an electronic site accessible through the internet to publish the following: (1) A database containing each state employee's gross pay from the most recent pay period. The database shall contain the name of the agency, position title, and employee name. (2) A database containing tax credits issued by the director of development to busi...

...The director of administrative services shall process payroll information for the purpose of payment for personal services of state officials and employees on the basis of rates of pay determined by pertinent law, the director, or other competent authority. Calculation of payrolls may be made after the conclusion of each pay period based upon the amount of time served as certified by the appropriate appointin...

...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 ...

...rt in the department of job and family services pursuant to section 3121.19 of the Revised Code. All money in the fund, including investment earnings thereon, shall be used only for the following purposes: (A) Forwarding to the office of child support 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 ...

...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...

...ned 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...

...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...

...red 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 the con...