State contracts: goods and services.

Existing law sets forth requirements for the acquisition of goods and services by state agencies and sets forth the various responsibilities of the Department of General Services and other state agencies in overseeing and implementing state contracting procedures and policies. Specific provisions govern the acquisition of information technology goods and services. This bill would enact the Transportation Sustainability Procurement Program Act to require the department, in consultation with the California Environmental Protection Agency, to develop a sustainability program for the state's procurement of shipping and transportation services for freight, small package delivery, and other forms of cargo. The act would require a contract entered into by a state agency, as defined, for those services, except as specifically exempted in existing law, to require service providers to report specified information relating to energy use and emissions of greenhouse gases to the agency, using generally accepted reporting protocols adopted by the agency for that purpose. The act would impose requirements on the solicitation for the procurement of services to specify how the bidder will be required to report its energy use and associated emissions of greenhouse gases under the contract, and to require a bidder to disclose prescribed information in its responses to the solicitation. The act would require the Director of General Services to adopt rules as specified to encourage all state agencies to use the least costly level of service or mode of transport that can achieve ontime delivery.