23-19 Agreement.pdf

performance and for items ordered and received by it and none assumes any additional responsibility or liability. 12. The provisions of Paragraphs 9, 10 and 11 above shall be quoted or referred to and sufficiently described in all specifications so that each bidder shall be on notice as to the respective responsibilities and liabilities of the participating contracting units. 13. No participating contracting unit in the Cooperative Pricing System shall issue a purchase order or issue a contract for a price which exceeds any other price available to it from any other such system in which it is authorized to participate or from bids which it has itself received. 14. All matters relating to the financial and contractual details of the Cooperative Pricing System shall be in accordance with N.J.A.C. 5:34-7.11 15. The County of Union and the participating contracting units shall be responsible for compliance with the change order requirements of N.J.A.C. 5:34-4. 16. When applicable, each participating contracting unit may, by resolution, provide for and authorize payment in advance for estimated administrative costs to be paid to the County of Union for a cooperative pricing system. Such administrative costs shall be budgeted by the County of Union as a Special Item of Revenue offset with appropriations. 17. The County of Union reserves the right to exclude any item or commodity from said system if, in its opinion, the pooling of purchasing requirements or needs of the participating contracting units is either not beneficial or not workable. 18. The Director of the Division of Local Government Services within the State Department of Community Affairs shall be notified within thirty (30) days of any change in the designated purchasing agent.