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2025 · Regular session · House bill

HB4748

HB4748 creates a multiple-award purchasing procedure for the comptroller and state agencies: they may award a contract to more than one vendor for similar goods or services when needed for adequate delivery, service or product co…

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Official caption: Relating to state agency purchasing methods and procedures, including a state agency multiple award contract purchasing procedure.

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HB4748 creates a multiple-award purchasing procedure for the comptroller and state agencies: they may award a contract to more than one vendor for similar goods or services when needed for adequate delivery, service or product compatibility.
The agency must keep a written explanation of why it is using multiple awards in the contract file.
The agency must still solicit, evaluate and award through the specified existing purchasing methods: Chapter 2156's contract-purchase procedure, its competitive-sealed-proposal procedure, or the comptroller's request-for-offers rules under Section 2157.006.
Each later order must also provide best value under the referenced state purchasing laws.
The act separately excludes professional-services contracts as defined by Section 2254.002 from all of Chapter 2156, not merely from this new subchapter.

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What does it do?

The agency must keep a written explanation of why it is using multiple awards in the contract file. Its solicitation must disclose both the intent to use the procedure and the award criteria. Each selected contractor must provide, or be capable of providing, best value to the state.

The agency must still solicit, evaluate and award through the specified existing purchasing methods: Chapter 2156’s contract-purchase procedure, its competitive-sealed-proposal procedure, or the comptroller’s request-for-offers rules under Section 2157.006. This is not authority to bypass procurement requirements simply by choosing several suppliers.

Each later order must also provide best value under the referenced state purchasing laws. If needed to determine best value, the agency may run an additional competition among the selected vendors before placing an order. It must document and retain how it determined best value. Being selected as a vendor is not a promise that every vendor will receive an equal share or a specified amount of orders; the incorporated multiple-award-contract definition concerns an indefinite amount of goods or services.

The act separately excludes professional-services contracts as defined by Section 2254.002 from all of Chapter 2156, not merely from this new subchapter. That definition covers specified professions such as engineering, architecture, accounting and medicine, plus specified other professional services. Their separate selection law uses demonstrated competence and qualifications and a fair, reasonable price rather than competitive bids. This exclusion does not mean those contracts are unregulated.

What changed along the way?

The introduced bill already proposed multiple awards, written reasons, disclosed criteria and documented best-value ordering. The House committee substitute added the chapter-wide professional-services exclusion, incorporated the existing statutory multiple-award-contract definition, reorganized the provisions and clarified the comptroller’s and agencies’ roles.

The House-passed, Senate committee and enrolled operative texts match the substitute. The amendment index lists no floor amendments; the substitute is a committee version, not a floor amendment. See the history and text-version index.

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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

Agencies may gain supply and service flexibility, and multiple vendors may qualify for orders. Vendors still face competition and no guaranteed order share. Agencies must perform and retain the required justification and best-value work, supporting later review of purchasing decisions.

The latest indexed fiscal note, May 22, 2025, anticipated no significant state fiscal impact, assuming both costs and savings would be insignificant, and no local-government fiscal impact. It does not promise a particular savings amount or appropriate new purchasing funds.

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