Section 4.1501  Illinois Procurement Bulletin − Higher Education

a)         The Illinois Procurement Bulletin consists of four volumes, one for each of the Chief Procurement Officers designated in the Code.  Each volume  will contain  information relating to procurements under the authority  of the appropriate CPO. In relation to the CPO-HE volume, the official title of the volume is The Illinois Procurement Bulletin/Public Institutions for Higher Education.  In common use, this Bulletin may be referred to as the Public Higher Education Bulletin or as otherwise designated by the CPO-HE.  References in this Part to Bulletin mean the Higher Education volume unless the context indicates a different meaning.

b)         The CPO-HE shall consult with the universities regarding the Bulletin as necessary, but the CPO-HE shall have all rights in and to his or her volume of the Bulletin and shall publish this volume of the Bulletin.  The CPO-HE shall determine the content, design, form, function, organization and structure of this volume of the Illinois Procurement Bulletin and shall make revisions as necessary or desirable.  To the extent the universities provide funding for the Bulletin, any decisions regarding the Bulletin may not exceed these funds.  University personnel assigned to work on the Bulletin remain employees of the university and the CPO-HE will exercise no personnel authority regarding these employees.

c)         The CPO-HE may, through agreement with one or more other Chief Procurement Officers, publish the Higher Education volume of the Bulletin jointly with one or more other volumes of the Illinois Procurement Bulletin, in accordance with the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act [5 ILCS 220].

(Source:  Amended at 40 Ill. Reg. 456, effective January 15, 2016)