Section 1300.4535  Certified Work Centers for Persons with Significant Disabilities

a)         The Procurement Officer shall refer to information prepared by DCMS regarding qualified not-for-profit agencies' certified work centers for persons with significant disabilities and categories of goods and services set-aside to those work centers by DCMS.  To the extent practicable, the OAG will follow such set-asides.

b)         Pricing Approval

While notice and competition is not required prior to contracting with a certified work center for persons with significant disabilities, prices must be reasonable.  Whether a price is reasonable will be determined based upon current market prices, historical prices, prices received by other State agencies for similar goods or services, the policy of the Code to promote procurements from certified work centers, and other such relevant factors.

(Source:  Amended at 42 Ill. Reg. 13585, effective June 29, 2018)