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HELP <br /> State of Colorado Solicitation Instructions/Terms and Conditions <br /> STATE OF COLORADO SOLICITATION INSTRUCTIONS/ <br /> TERMS AND CONDITIONS <br /> Requests for Documented Quotes, Invitations for Bids, Requests for Proposals <br /> Effective November 15, 1999 <br /> 1. General <br /> 1.1 Applicability. Except to the extent modified, supplemented, or replaced in any <br /> solicitation by the procuring agency, these provisions and terms and conditions apply to a request <br /> for documented quotes, invitation for bids, or request for proposals issued on the Bid Information <br /> and Distribution System (BIDS) for supplies and services (excluding construction). This version <br /> of these provisions applies to any solicitation published on or after the date above. These <br /> instructions are intended to summarize the State's procurement process and provide instructions <br /> to offerors, but they are not intended to modify procurement statutes and implementing rules. <br /> 1.2 Definitions. <br /> "Contract" includes a State contract executed pursuant to State Fiscal Rules, any <br /> purchase order, and any other informal agreement permitted by State Fiscal Rules, unless the <br /> context clearly requires another meaning. <br /> "Procuring agency" is the State agency or institution that issues the solicitation on <br /> BIDS or, in the case of the executed contract or purchase order,the State agency or institution <br /> executing or issuing the purchase order or contract. <br /> "Solicitation" refers to a request for documented quotes, invitation for bids, or <br /> request for proposals unless the context requires another meaning. <br /> "Unless otherwise specified" and "unless otherwise agreed" refers to the procuring <br /> agencN's terms in the solicitation or instruction to offerors that are inconsistent with these terms <br /> and conditions and, when the context requires, the resulting purchase order or contract that are <br /> inconsistent with or otherwise modify these terms and conditions. <br /> "Vendor" refers to any person or entity responding to a solicitation, and has the <br /> same meaning as "contractor" or "offeror." <br />