Cooperative procurement means procurement conducted by, or on behalf of, more than one (1) public procurement unit.

Public procurement unit means any state, county, city, town, and any other political subdivision, public authority, educational, health or other institution, and to the extent provided by law, any other entity which expends public funds for the procurement of supplies, services and construction, and any not-for-profit entity.

1. Sponsor, conduct or administer a cooperative agreement for the procurement or disposal of any materials, services, or construction.

2. Cooperatively use materials or services.

3. Commonly use or share warehousing facilities, capital equipment and other facilities.

4. Provide personnel, except that the requesting eligible procurement unit may pay the public procurement unit providing the personnel the direct and indirect cost of providing the personnel, in accordance with the agreement.

5. On request, make available to other eligible public procurement units informational, technical or other services that may assist in improving the efficiency or economy of procurement. The public procurement unit furnishing the informational or technical services has the right to request reimbursement for the reasonable and necessary costs of providing such services.

6. All payments received by a public procurement unit supplying personnel or services shall be available to the supplying public procurement unit to defray the cost of the cooperative program.