{"id":4037,"date":"2021-02-16T15:14:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/?post_type=news&amp;p=4037"},"modified":"2021-02-16T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:14:48","slug":"buy-michigan-first-procurement-legislation-introduced","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/news\/buy-michigan-first-procurement-legislation-introduced\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy Michigan First Procurement Legislation Introduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Advocacy News &#8211; February 16, 2021<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Last week,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislature.mi.gov\/(S(xp1p2erclvsmnpzt0mgygmdo))\/mileg.aspx?page=getObject&amp;objectname=2021-SB-0117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\"><b>Senate Bill 117<\/b><\/a>\u00a0was introduced by Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich to encourage more state government purchasing contracts go to Michigan businesses.\u00a0\u00a0<b>The Michigan Chamber is seeking input from members on this policy to develop the organization\u2019s official position.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The legislation states that if the lowest bidder on a contract is not a Michigan business, then all bidders on that contract that are Michigan businesses will have\u00a0seven\u00a0days to resubmit their bid to match or beat the bid from the bidder who is not a Michigan business.\u00a0 If only\u00a0one\u00a0Michigan business resubmits their bid at a lower rate than the non-Michigan business, the bid must be accepted.\u00a0 If\u00a0two\u00a0or more Michigan businesses resubmit their bid at a lower rate then, the lowest bidder will be awarded the contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan Chamber wants to ensure government procurement dollars are spent responsibly and as much economic benefit as possible remains in our State.<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions, concerns or comments on this legislation, please contact Dan Papineau at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dpapineau@michamber.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\"><b>dpapineau@michamber.com<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocacy News &#8211; February 16, 2021 Last week,\u00a0Senate Bill 117\u00a0was introduced by Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich to encourage more state government purchasing contracts go to Michigan businesses.\u00a0\u00a0The Michigan Chamber is seeking input from members on this policy to develop the organization\u2019s official position. The legislation states that if the lowest bidder on a contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14416,"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4037\/revisions\/14416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}