purchasing

Michigan Resident Bidder Preference

Revised August 14, 2024

Michigan Compiled Laws

Chapter 18. Department of Management and Budget

The Management and Budget Act

Article 2. Personalty; Realty; Travel; Security; Contracts; Funds; Services

18.1261 . Solicitation, award, amendment, cancellation, and appeal of state contracts; preferences and goals; powers and duties of department; delegation of procurement authority; disclosure of records; inclusion and enforcement of performance-related contract provisions

(1) The department shall provide for the purchase of, the contracting for, and the providing of supplies, materials, services, insurance, utilities, third party financing, equipment, printing, and all other items as needed by state agencies for which the legislature has not otherwise expressly provided. If consistent with federal statutes, in all purchases made by the department, all other things being equal, preference shall be given to products manufactured or services offered by Michigan-based firms or by facilities with respect to which the operator is designated as a clean corporate citizen under part 14 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.1401 to 324.1429, or to biobased products whose content is sourced in this state. The department shall solicit competitive bids from the private sector whenever practicable to efficiently and effectively meet the state's needs. The department shall first determine that competitive solicitation of bids in the private sector is not appropriate before using any other procurement method for an acquisition.

18.1268 . Bidders for state contracts; certification as Michigan business; criteria; preferences; false certification; penalties; applicability

(4) Only a bidder that has certified that it is a Michigan business is entitled to have the department apply a reciprocal preference in its favor against a business that submits a bid from a state which applies a preference law against out-of-state bidders. A bidder that does not certify that it is a Michigan business shall indicate in its bid the state in which it maintains its principal place of business for the purpose of applying that state's preference law against the bidder.

(5) If the low bid for a state procurement exceeds $100,000.00 and is from a business located in a state which applies a preference law against out-of-state businesses, the department shall prefer a bid from a Michigan business in the same manner in which the out-of-state bidder would be preferred in its home state.

Michigan Compiled Laws

Chapter 24. Printing and State Documents

State Printing

24.61 . Printing chargeable to or paid by state; requirements; exceptions; preference

(1) All printing that this state is chargeable, or that is paid for with funds appropriated wholly or in part by this state, excepting printing for primary school districts, counties, townships, cities, villages, or legal publications ordered for or by elective state officers, shall bear the label of the branch of the allied printing trades council of the locality in which it is printed…

(2) For all printing described in subsection (1), all other things being equal, preference shall be given for printing offered by Michigan-based firms or by facilities with respect to which the operator is designated as a clean corporate citizen under part 14 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.1401 to 324.1429.

Michigan Compiled Laws

Chapter 45. Counties

Purchase of Supplies

45.85 . County purchasing agent; duties; estimates of county officers; advertisements for bids; manner of purchase, criteria

…When the same article is estimated for by 2 or more offices, departments or institutions, but of different brands or grades, the purchasing agent may determine which of the brands or grades shall be purchased so as to produce uniformity in use by all the offices, departments and institutions: Provided, That other things being equal, supplies offered by bidders who have an established local business in the county shall have preference.