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# 19 CAR section 1-801 - Cooperative purchasing > *Archived legal-authority source. The public original was independently acquired and preserved on 2026-08-10.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher or court:** Code of Arkansas Rules / Arkansas Office of State Procurement - **URL:** https://codeofarrules.arkansas.gov/Rules/Rule?chapterID=259&levelType=section&partID=1264&sectionID=61735&subChapterID=325&subPartID=9209&titleID=19 - **Resolved URL:** https://codeofarrules.arkansas.gov/Rules/Rule?chapterID=259&levelType=section&partID=1264&sectionID=61735&subChapterID=325&subPartID=9209&titleID=19 - **Archived:** 2026-08-10, from unauthenticated public access - **Wayback snapshot:** save failed 2026-08-10; retry pending - **Source class:** primary public record or court opinion ## Proposition boundary Approved individual contracts, best-interest analysis, and non-blanket treatment. ## Extract / Title 19 / Chapter I / Subchapter A / Part 1 / Subpart 8 PREVIOUS NEXT 19 CAR § 1-801. Cooperative purchasing Content Notes 19 CAR § 1-801. Cooperative purchasing. (a) When an agency that is subject to the Arkansas Procurement Law, Arkansas Code § 19-61-101 et seq., seeks to participate in a cooperative purchasing agreement that is administered by a public procurement unit or external procurement activity that is not subject to the Arkansas Procurement Law, it will first need to submit the cooperative purchasing agreement to the State Procurement Director for a determination as required by Arkansas Code § 19-61-809(b) and this part. (b)(1) In seeking the determination from the director, the agency must include a verifiable economic justification as to why using the cooperative purchasing agreement is more cost effective or likely to realize savings than conducting a solicitation. (2) A verifiable economic justification includes a comparison of current state contract pricing and the pricing under a cooperative purchasing agreement, or a comparison of information obtained from a request for information and pricing under a cooperative purchasing agreement, or a comparison of current contract pricing for a nearby comparable state and the pricing under a cooperative purchasing agreement if there is not current state contract pricing. (3) The justification should include a comparison of a sufficient proportion of the spend to extrapolate an expected overall savings. (c) If a determination has already been made with respect to a cooperative purchasing agreement, any other public procurement unit may rely on that determination. <style type="text/css"> .csDB566D4C{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;line-height:1.65} .csC9003E48{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Tahoma,Arial;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;} .csE593D8A7{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Tahoma,Arial;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;} </style> 19 CAR § 1-801. Cooperative purchasing. (a) When an agency that is subject to the Arkansas Procurement Law, Arkansas Code § 19-61-101 et seq., seeks to participate in a cooperative purchasing agreement that is administered by a public procurement unit or external procurement activity that is not subject to the Arkansas Procurement Law, it will first need to submit the cooperative purchasing agreement to the State Procurement Director for a determination as required by Arkansas Code § 19-61-809(b) and this part. (b)(1) In seeking the determination from the director, the agency must include a verifiable economic justification as to why using the cooperative purchasing agreement is more cost effective or likely to realize savings than conducting a solicitation. (2) A verifiable economic justification includes a comparison of current state contract pricing and the pricing under a cooperative purchasing agreement, or a comparison of information obtained from a request for information and pricing under a cooperative purchasing agreement, or a comparison of current contract pricing for a nearby comparable state and the pricing under a cooperative purchasing agreement if there is not current state contract pricing. (3) The justification should include a comparison of a sufficient proportion of the spend to extrapolate an expected overall savings.   (c) If a determination has already been made with respect to a cooperative purchasing agreement, any other public procurement unit may rely on that determination. Codification Notes: This section was promulgated as R1:19-11-249 of the Procurement Rules prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules. History: Ark. R. 2026-76 (eff. July 2, 2026) Authority: Arkansas Code § 19-61-117 **Wayback failure**: Save Page Now did not return a response during the bounded 2026-08-10 capture pass. Retry pending. ## Notes - Tier: 2 - primary public record or court opinion. - Cited by: [[Arkansas Municipal County and State Cooperative Procurement Law]], [[Cooperative Purchasing Vehicle]].