§ 4.04.010. Title, purposes and rules of construction.

A.

Title. The ordinance codified in this title may be cited as "The 1992 Procurement Code of the Metropolitan Government" and is sometimes referred to hereafter as the "code."

B.

Interpretation. This code shall be construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.

C.

Purposes and Policies. The underlying purposes and policies of this code are:

1.

To simplify, clarify and modernize the law governing procurements by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, referred to hereafter as metropolitan government";

2.

To permit the continued development of procurement policies and practices;

3.

To provide for increased public confidence in the procedures followed in public procurement;

4.

To ensure the fair and equitable treatment of all persons who deal with the procurement system of the metropolitan government;

5.

To provide increased economy in the metropolitan government's procurement activities and to maximize to the fullest extent practicable the purchasing value of public funds of the metropolitan government;

6.

To foster effective broad-based competition within the free enterprise system while ensuring procurements meeting the needs of the metropolitan government; and

7.

To provide safeguards for the maintenance of a procurement system of quality and integrity.

D.

Singular-Plural and Gender Rules. In this code, unless the context requires otherwise:

1.

Words in the singular number include the plural and those in the plural include the singular, and

2.

Words of a particular gender include any gender and the neuter and when the sense so indicates, words of the neuter gender may refer to any gender.

(Ord. 92-210 § 1 (1-101), 19920