Okla. Stat. tit. 57, § 57-549.1

A. The Department of Corrections is authorized to purchase in

the manner prescribed by law, facilities, equipment, raw materials

and supplies, and to engage the supervisory personnel necessary to

establish and maintain for this state at the penal institutions, now

or hereafter under the control of the State Board of Corrections,

industries and agricultural programs for the utilization of services

of prisoners in the manufacture, production, processing or assembly

of the articles or products as may be needed for the construction,

operation, maintenance or use of any office, department, institution

or agency supported in whole or in part by this state and the

political subdivisions thereof. Upon the request of the Oklahoma

Historical Society or the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation

Department, the Department of Corrections shall provide labor for

and shall produce or manufacture articles, products or materials

needed for the repair, construction and maintenance of historical

sites and state parks including, but not limited to, the production

of materials and products needed for the reconstruction of historic

forts in the state.

B. All articles and services provided by the Department of

Corrections in the state correctional institutions, and not required

for use therein, shall be purchased as required by all offices,

departments, institutions, agencies, counties, schools, colleges,

universities, or political subdivisions or any agency thereof of

this state which are supported in whole or in part by this state, if

such article or service is the lowest and best bid, and no such

article or product may be purchased by any such office, department,

institution, agency, county, school, college, university, or

political subdivisions or agency thereof from any other source

unless excepted from the provisions as hereinafter provided.

Purchases made by the above-described state agencies may be made by

submitting the proper requisition through the Office of Management

and Enterprise Services or by direct order to the prison industries

program of the Department of Corrections.

C. If a requisition is received by the Office of Management and

Enterprise Services or a direct order is received by the Prison

Industries Program of the Department of Corrections from a state

agency for any product or service provided by the Department of

Corrections and such product or service is also available from a

severely handicapped person or a qualified nonprofit agency for the

severely handicapped as provided in Section 3001 et seq. of Title 74

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of the Oklahoma Statutes at a comparable price, then the product or

service shall be purchased from such severely handicapped person or

qualified nonprofit agency for the severely handicapped. If the

product or service is not available within the time period required

by the purchasing state agency, then such product or service shall

be purchased from the Department of Corrections under the provisions

of this section.

D. All offices, departments, institutions, agencies, counties,

cities, districts or political subdivisions, schools, colleges, or

universities, or any agency thereof, or any agencies of the state,

which are supported in whole or in part by this state, may purchase

the goods or services manufactured, produced, processed or assembled

by the prison industries of the Department of Corrections through

their properly authorized purchasing authority, or they may place a

direct order without competitive bid, with the prison industries of

the Department of Corrections.

E. Not-for-profit corporations or charitable agencies chartered

in Oklahoma or other states may purchase such goods and services.

Units of the federal government and units of government in other

states may also purchase such goods and services. All entities

which contract with the state, its political units, its agencies,
tive bid, with the prison industries of

the Department of Corrections.

E. Not-for-profit corporations or charitable agencies chartered

in Oklahoma or other states may purchase such goods and services.

Units of the federal government and units of government in other

states may also purchase such goods and services. All entities

which contract with the state, its political units, its agencies,

its public institutions, not-for-profit corporations or charitable

agencies chartered in Oklahoma may purchase goods or services from

the Department of Corrections which are used in the performance of

such contracts. Any church located in the State of Oklahoma may

also purchase goods and services manufactured, produced, processed

or assembled by the prison industries of the Department of

Corrections. Any community action agency or council of governments

within this state may purchase housing components produced by the

prison industries of the Department of Corrections. Nothing shall

prohibit the Department from bidding on portions of a state contract

which are subcontracted by the primary contractor.

F. Others are prohibited from purchasing such goods and

services, with the exception that all surplus agricultural products

may be sold on the open market or bartered and exchanged for other

food, feed or seed products of comparable value. The Department of

Corrections shall keep complete and accurate records of any such

barters or exchanges in such form and manner as the Office of

Management and Enterprise Services may prescribe. A copy of such

records shall be filed with the Office of Management and Enterprise

Services no later than March 1 of each year for all barters or

exchanges occurring in the previous calendar year. When

practicable, the Department of Corrections may accept and process

agricultural products from the public and may export the resulting

products to foreign markets.

G. Products manufactured, produced, processed or assembled by

the Department of Corrections shall be of styles, patterns, designs

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and quantities specified by the Department of Corrections except

where the same have been or may be specified by the Office of

Management and Enterprise Services. Products shall be provided at a

fair market price for comparable quality.

H. State agencies shall make maximum utilization of such

products and no similar products shall be purchased by state

agencies from any other source than the Department of Corrections

except as provided in subsection C of this section, unless the

Department of Corrections certifies to the State Purchasing Director

that it is not able to provide products, and no claim therefor shall

be paid without such certification.

I. Exceptions from the mandatory provisions hereof may be made

in any case where, in the opinion of the Office of Management and

Enterprise Services, the article or product does not meet the

reasonable requirements of or for such offices, departments,

institutions or agencies, or in any case where the requisitions made

cannot be reasonably complied with. No such offices, departments,

institutions or agencies, shall be allowed to evade the intent and

meaning of this section by slight variations from standards adopted

by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, when the

articles, services or products produced, manufactured, processed or

assembled by the Department of Corrections, in accordance with

established standards, are reasonably adapted to the actual needs of

such offices, departments, institutions or agencies.

J. In the event of disagreement between the Department of

Corrections and the State Purchasing Director on fairness of price,

ability to comply to specifications, reasonableness of

specifications and timeliness of delivery of products the matter

will be resolved by the Purchasing Director of the Office of
bly adapted to the actual needs of

such offices, departments, institutions or agencies.

J. In the event of disagreement between the Department of

Corrections and the State Purchasing Director on fairness of price,

ability to comply to specifications, reasonableness of

specifications and timeliness of delivery of products the matter

will be resolved by the Purchasing Director of the Office of

Management and Enterprise Services.

K. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall

cooperate with the Department of Corrections in seeking to promote

for use in state agencies and by all other eligible customers, the

products manufactured and services provided by the prison

industries.

L. The Department of Corrections shall prepare catalogs

containing the description of all goods and services provided, with

the pricing of each item. Copies of such catalog shall be sent by

the Department of Corrections to all offices, departments,

institutions and agencies of this state, and shall be available for

distribution to all other eligible customers. In lieu of preparing

and distributing catalogs, the Department of Corrections may

maintain a website that contains a description of all goods and

services provided, with the pricing of each item.

M. The Department of Corrections may keep confidential:

1. Business plans, feasibility studies, financing proposals,

marketing plans, financial statements or trade secrets submitted by

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a person or entity seeking a corrections industries partnership with

the Department of Corrections;

2. Proprietary information of the business submitted to the

Department for the purposes of a corrections industries partnership,

and related confidentiality agreements detailing the information or

records designated as confidential; and

3. The Department of Corrections may not keep confidential

information when and to the extent that the person or entity

submitting the information consents to disclosure.