Connecticut General Statutes Title 4. Management of State Agencies § 4-70b. Definitions. Secretary's budget, finance and management duties. Report to the General Assembly. Secretary's authority to waive competitive procurement requirements re purchase of service contracts

(a) For purposes of this section:

(b) The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall establish an Office of Finance under the direction of an executive financial officer. The secretary shall assist the Governor in his duties respecting the formulation of the budget and the correlating and revising of estimates and requests for appropriations of all budgeted agencies and shall also assist the Governor in his duties respecting the investigation, supervision and coordination of the expenditures and other fiscal operations of such budgeted agencies.

(c) Said secretary shall direct internal management consultant services to state agencies in such areas as administrative management, facility planning and review, management systems and program evaluation and such other special studies and analyses as he deems necessary. The secretary shall annually report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the General Assembly concerning the state's purchase of service contracting activity. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, an assessment of the aggregate financial condition of nonprofit, community-based health and human services agencies that enter into purchase of service contracts.

(d) The secretary shall establish uniform policies and procedures for obtaining, managing and evaluating the quality and cost effectiveness of direct health and human services purchased from a private provider organization or municipality. The secretary shall require all state agencies which purchase direct health and human services to comply with such policies and procedures.

(e) Purchase of service contracts shall be subject to the competitive procurement provisions of sections 4-212 to 4-219, inclusive. The secretary may waive the competitive procurement requirements set forth in chapter 55a  1 with respect to any purchase of service contract between a state agency and a private provider of human services.

(f) No state agency may hire a private provider organization or municipality to provide direct health or human services to agency clients without executing a purchase of service contract with such private provider organization or municipality.