You are receiving this because you have a requestor, approver or contract management role in CAPPS Financials, or you are a supervisor of someone who does. Please review the following and share with anyone you think might be interested or impacted.
On March 13, Gov. Greg Abbott declared a State of Disaster in Texas due to COVID-19. At that time, purchases that clearly related to the COVID-19 disaster were expedited to ensure HHS could respond to the public health crisis under the authority of the Governor’s declaration of a disaster.
Getting back to normal purchasing
While there still may be limited instances when a qualifying COVID-related good or service purchase is needed, at this point those purchases should be rare. All declaration purchases will be scrutinized appropriately, and approvals should not be anticipated or relied upon in procurement planning.
Program areas may have a need for continuing, as a normal business process, service-related purchases procured initially as part of the COVID response. In those instances, when the current contract or purchase order expires, program areas should plan on making the purchase following normal purchasing processes and timelines as the authority used to make the declaration purchase will not apply to non-COVID response purchases.
Please refer to and follow the procurement lead times in the Procurement Action Lead Time Schedule (PALTS). You can find this schedule on the front page of our PCS SharePoint site in the EOY Resources section, listed just below news and events.
If you have any questions about COVID-related purchasing, email PCS Customer Support.
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