(a) Auxiliary services.— Shall be understood to be printing and transportation services, purchase; furnishing storage; filing system counseling; preservation and disposal of documents; electronic data processing; repair of equipment and office furniture; programming, planning, design, construction, repair, maintenance and conservation of public buildings; advice to departments and dependencies on office space rental; and any other service that the Administration may render to enable the agencies to carry out their fundamental functions and which is not in conflict with other laws.
(b) Administrator.— Is the Administrator of the General Services Administration.
(c) Executive Branch.— Shall mean all the departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Executive Branch, except public corporations and political subdivisions of the Government of Puerto Rico, Office of Government Ethics, the University of Puerto Rico, the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, the Planning Board, and the State Elections Commission.
(d) Administration.— Shall mean the General Services Administration.
(e) Supplies.— Shall mean expendable or nonexpendable property needed in all Government agencies under the Administration’s jurisdiction to carry out their respective programs.
(f) Certificate of eligibility.— Certificate issued by the General Services Administration accrediting compliance by the bidder of the requirements established through regulations to appear in the Exclusive Register of Bidders.
(g) Bidder.— Any natural or juridical person registered in the Exclusive Register of Bidders of the General Services Administration that is available and interested in contracting and appearing at the presentation of offers for Government bidding.
(h) Exclusive Register of Bidders.— Register which lists the natural or juridical persons that are qualified by the Administration to contract with the Government for having met the requirements established by the Administrator.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 164, Part 1, p. 752, § 2; Aug. 4, 1979, No. 196, p. 566, § 1; June 18, 2002, No. 85, § 1; Dec. 12, 2007, No. 187, § 1; Dec. 1, 2010, No. 181, § 1.