12-3-808 - Annual report.
12-3-808. Annual report.
(a) The commissioner shall annually report, on or before each December 31, to the governor and to each member of the general assembly concerning the awarding of purchases to minority owned, woman owned and small businesses and the total value of awards made during the preceding fiscal year under the provisions of this part. The commissioner shall also include in such annual report the number, by category, of minority owned, woman owned and small businesses solicited; the number of bids received, by category, from minority owned, woman owned and small businesses; and the dollar amount of purchases awarded, by category, to minority owned, woman owned and small businesses.
(b) In annually reporting the information on minority owned, woman owned and small businesses, based upon information provided by vendors, the commissioner shall, in a separate section of the report, indicate the number of businesses solicited within each of the four (4) subcategories enumerated within § 12-3-802(3), the number of bids received from each of the four (4) subcategories enumerated within § 12-3-802(3), and the total number and dollar amount of all purchases awarded within each of the four (4) subcategories enumerated within § 12-3-802(3). For purposes of evaluation, the report shall also indicate the total number and dollar amount of all purchases by all state agencies during the reporting period.
[Acts 1980, ch. 888, § 10; T.C.A., § 12-3-608; Acts 1988, ch. 818, § 8; 1994, ch. 981, § 5; 2004, ch. 569, § 1.]