Fla. Stat. 337.02
Purchases by department subject to competitive bids; advertisement; emergency purchases; bid specifications

(1)

Except as provided herein, purchase by the Department of Transportation of commodities, including the advertising and awarding of competitive bids, shall be governed by chapters 283 and 287 and rules adopted by the Department of Management Services pursuant thereto. However, the provisions of s. 287.057 notwithstanding, the department may purchase parts and repairs valued at up to the threshold amount provided in s. 287.017 for CATEGORY TWO for the repair of mobile road maintenance equipment, marine vessels, permanent vehicle scales, and mechanical and electrical equipment for movable bridges, toll facilities including the Florida Turnpike, and up to the threshold amount provided in s. 287.017 for CATEGORY THREE for treatment plants and lift stations for water and sewage, and major heating and cooling systems without receiving competitive bids.

(2)

If the department determines that an emergency exists in regard to the purchase of materials, machinery, tools, equipment, or supplies, so that the delay incident to giving opportunity for competitive bidding would be detrimental to the interests of the state, the provisions for competitive bidding do not apply; and the department may authorize or purchase such materials, machinery, tools, equipment, or supplies without giving opportunity for competitive bidding thereon. The department shall, within 10 days after such determination and purchase, file with the head of the Department of Management Services a written statement of the materials, machinery, tools, equipment, or supplies purchased and a certificate as to the conditions and circumstances constituting such emergency.

(3)

When the department advertises for bids on a contract for supplies, materials, equipment, or other items needed by the department, specifications shall be drafted in such manner as will afford adequate protection to the state as to quality and performance, but specifications shall not be drafted in any manner which will preclude competition in bidding.

Source: Section 337.02 — Purchases by department subject to competitive bids; advertisement; emergency purchases; bid specifications, https://www.­flsenate.­gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/0337.­02 (accessed Aug. 7, 2025).

337.02
Purchases by department subject to competitive bids 337.03
Authority of department to purchase surplus properties from the Federal Government 337.11
Contracting authority of department 337.14
Application for qualification 337.015
Administration of public contracts 337.16
Disqualification of delinquent contractors from bidding 337.17
Bid guaranty 337.18
Surety bonds for construction or maintenance contracts 337.19
Suits by and against department 337.023
Sale of building 337.25
Acquisition, lease, and disposal of real and personal property 337.025
Innovative transportation projects 337.26
Execution and effect of instruments of sale, lease, or conveyance executed by department 337.026
Authority of department to enter into agreements for construction aggregate materials 337.27
Exercise of power of eminent domain by department 337.027
Authority to implement a business development program 337.29
Vesting of title to roads 337.105
Qualifications of professional consultants and other providers of contractual services 337.106
Professional service providers 337.107
Contracts for right-of-way services 337.108
Hazardous materials and pollutants 337.111
Contracting for monuments and memorials to military veterans at rest areas 337.125
Socially and economically disadvantaged business enterprises 337.135
Socially and economically disadvantaged business enterprises 337.139
Efforts to encourage awarding contracts to disadvantaged business enterprises 337.141
Payment of construction or maintenance contracts 337.145
Offsetting payments 337.162
Professional services 337.164
Legislative intent with respect to integrity of public contracting process 337.165
Contract crime 337.166
Moneys recovered for violations of antitrust laws 337.167
Administrative procedures 337.168
Confidentiality of official estimates and bid analysis and monitoring system 337.169
Effect of ch. 83-4 on existing remedies 337.175
Retainage 337.185
State Arbitration Board 337.195
Limits on liability 337.221
Claims settlement process 337.242
Acquisition of rail corridors 337.243
Notification of land use changes in designated transportation corridors 337.251
Lease of property for joint public-private development and areas above or below department property 337.0261
Construction aggregate materials 337.0262
Purchase and use of clay, peat, gravel, sand, or any other solid substance extracted from borrow pits 337.273
Transportation corridors 337.274
Authority of department agent or employee to enter lands, waters, and premises of another in the performance of duties 337.276
Issuance of bonds for right-of-way land acquisition and state bridge construction 337.401
Use of right-of-way for utilities subject to regulation 337.402
Damage to public road caused by utility 337.403
Interference caused by utility 337.404
Removal or relocation of utility facilities 337.405
Trees or other vegetation within rights-of-way of State Highway System or publicly owned rail corridors 337.406
Unlawful use of state transportation facility right-of-way 337.407
Regulation of signs and lights within rights-of-way 337.408
Regulation of bus stops, benches, transit shelters, street light poles, waste disposal receptacles, and modular news racks within rights-of-way 337.409
Willfully or maliciously removing, damaging, destroying, altering, or appropriating benches, transit shelters, waste receptacles, or advertising displayed thereon 337.1075
Contracts for planning services 337.1101
Contracting and procurement authority of the department 337.2505
Donations for landscape projects 337.02611
Phosphogypsum as a construction aggregate material 337.2735
Recording of municipal maps of reservation for transportation corridors and transportation facilities 337.4061
Definitions

Current through Fall 2025

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