Tennessee Code Title 4. State Government § 4-15-107

(1) “Commission” means the state building commission;

(2) “Improvement to real property” means:

(3) “Major maintenance” means the repair or renovation of a building or structure or a portion thereof in which this state or a department, institution, or agency thereof has an interest and that:

(4) “Renovation” means the change in the functional use or operation of space in existing buildings or structures in which the state of Tennessee or any of its departments, institutions or agencies have an interest; and

(5) “State procurement agency” means, as appropriate, the department of general services, state of Tennessee real estate asset management; University of Tennessee, department of capital projects; Tennessee board of regents, department of facilities development; East Tennessee State University, office of facilities management, planning, and construction; Austin Peay State University, capital planning, design and construction; Tennessee Technological University, office of capital projects and planning; Middle Tennessee State University, department of campus planning; and University of Memphis, department of campus planning and design, or the successors-in-interest to such departments, or any additional state entities, or subdivisions thereof, as determined by the commission.