Buy IT Manual - Spring 2025 Update
This update is pending through the guidance document process on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall Website.
- BUY IT Manual - Spring 2025 (PDF)
- Appendices to BUY IT (PDF)
- Document update forum (visit here to track progress and/or submit public comment)
Buy IT Manual - Table of Contents 2023
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- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - VITA's Purpose and Scope
- Chapter 2 - How Is Procuring Information Technology Different?
- Chapter 3 - VITA's Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- Chapter 4 - Reserved
- Chapter 5 - Ethics in Public Procurement
- Chapter 6 - Fair and Open Competition in IT Procurement
- Chapter 7 - Promoting the Commonwealth's Socio-Economic Initiatives
- Chapter 8 - Describing the Need - Specifications and Requirements
- Chapter 9 - Determining Fair and Reasonable Pricing
- Chapter 10 - General IT Procurement Policies
- Chapter 11 - IT Procurement Planning and Strategic Sourcing
- Chapter 12 - Statements of Work for IT Procurements
- Chapter 13 - The IT Procurement Project Team
- Chapter 14 - Selecting the IT Procurement Method
- Chapter 15 - Small IT Purchase Procedures
- Chapter 16 - Sole Source IT Procurements
- Chapter 17 - Emergency IT Procurements
- Chapter 18 - Requests for Information, Prequalification of Suppliers, Unsolicited Proposals
- Chapter 19 - Public, Online and Reverse Auctions
- Chapter 20 - Joint and Cooperative and GSA Contracts
- Chapter 21 - Performance-Based Contracting and Service Level Agreements
- Chapter 22 - IT Competitive Sealed Bidding / Invitation for Bid
- Chapter 23 - Two-Step Competitive Sealed Bidding
- Chapter 24 - Requests for Proposals and Competitive Negotiations
- Chapter 25 - IT Contract Formation
- Chapter 26 - Negotiating IT Contracts
- Chapter 27 - Software Licensing and Maintenance Contracts
- Chapter 28 - Agency IT Procurement Security and Cloud Requirements for Solicitations and Contracts
- Chapter 29 - Award and Post-Award of IT Contracts
- Chapter 30 - High Risk IT Solicitations and Contracts
- Chapter 31 - Reserved
- Chapter 32 - Protest Procedures
- Chapter 33 - Reserved
- Chapter 34 - IT Contract Administration
- Chapter 35 - Reserved
- Chapter 36 - Reserved
- Chapter 37 - Reserved
- Bibliography
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