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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB1294 Introduced 1/28/2025, by Sen. Christopher Belt SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that the chief procurement officer may not award a contract to a vendor if more than 10% of the services contracted, based on the cost of services, are to be performed outside of the United States. |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning finance.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Procurement Code is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 25-65 as follows:
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| 6 | | (30 ILCS 500/25-65) |
| 7 | | Sec. 25-65. Contracts performed outside the United States. |
| 8 | | Prior to contracting or as a requirement of solicitation of |
| 9 | | any State contracts for services as defined in Section |
| 10 | | 1-15.90, whichever is appropriate, potential contractors shall |
| 11 | | disclose in a statement of work where services will be |
| 12 | | performed under that contract, including any subcontracts, and |
| 13 | | whether any services under that contract, including any |
| 14 | | subcontracts, are anticipated to be performed outside the |
| 15 | | United States. |
| 16 | | In awarding the contract or evaluating the bid or offer, |
| 17 | | the chief procurement officer shall may consider such |
| 18 | | disclosure and the economic impact to the State of Illinois |
| 19 | | and its residents. |
| 20 | | The chief procurement officer may not award a contract to |
| 21 | | a vendor if more than 10% of the services contracted, based on |
| 22 | | the cost of services, are to be performed outside of the United |
| 23 | | States. |
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| 1 | | If the chief procurement officer awards a contract to a |
| 2 | | vendor based upon disclosure that work will be performed in |
| 3 | | the United States and during the term of the contract the |
| 4 | | contractor or a subcontractor proceeds to shift work outside |
| 5 | | of the United States, the contractor shall be deemed in breach |
| 6 | | of contract, unless the chief procurement officer shall have |
| 7 | | first determined in writing that circumstances require the |
| 8 | | shift of work or that termination of the contract would not be |
| 9 | | in the State's best interest. |
| 10 | | Nothing in this Section is intended to contravene any |
| 11 | | existing treaty, law, agreement, or regulation of the United |
| 12 | | States. |
| 13 | | The chief procurement officer appointed pursuant to |
| 14 | | paragraph (4) of subsection (a) of Section 10-20 shall prepare |
| 15 | | and deliver to the General Assembly, no later than September |
| 16 | | 1, 2015, a report on the impact of outsourcing services for |
| 17 | | State agencies subject to the jurisdiction of the chief |
| 18 | | procurement officer. The report shall include the State's cost |
| 19 | | of procurement and shall identify those contracts where it was |
| 20 | | disclosed that services were provided outside of the United |
| 21 | | States, including a description and value of those services. |
| 22 | | Each State agency subject to the jurisdiction of the chief |
| 23 | | procurement officer appointed pursuant to paragraph (4) of |
| 24 | | subsection (a) of Section 10-20 must provide the chief |
| 25 | | procurement officer the information necessary to comply with |
| 26 | | this Section on or before June 1, 2015. The requirement for |