The County may either participate in, sponsor, conduct, administer, or enter into a cooperative purchasing contract for the procurement of any goods, services, or construction, or the cooperative use of goods, services, or construction with a public entity. The cooperative procurement may include joint contracts or multi-party contracts. If the facilities and services of the Procurement Office are made available to another public entity, the Director may require the public entity to pay a fee for the services provided by the Procurement Office.

The County may without competition enter into a contract for the procurement of, use of, or sale of goods, services, or construction, with a public entity when it is in the best interest of the County.

The County may without competition enter into a contract with a person if: (a) the Director determines that: (1) the person has an existing contract with another public entity for the goods, services, or construction which the County would like to procure; (2) a bridge contract is in the best interest of the County; and (3) the contract between the person and the other public entity was awarded as the result of adequate competition; and (b) the person agrees to provide the County: (1) materially the same specifications being provided the other public entity; and (2) the same prices being charged the other public entity.