Public contracts: procurement: small business, microbusiness, and disabled veteran business enterprises.

The Small Business Procurement and Contract Act requires the directors of the Department of General Services and other state agencies entering into contracts for the provision of goods, information technology, and services to the state, and in the construction of state facilities, to provide for a preference, as specified, for any bid to small businesses and microbusinesses, under specified circumstances. The act permits a state agency to award a contract of a specified limited amount for the acquisition of goods, services, or information technology, to a certified small business, including a microbusiness, or to a disabled veteran business enterprise if the agency receives certain other…