DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
Response To Contract Reporting Impact Statement
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Agency Name
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Department of Transportation
DOT-01
Response to Impact Statement
The data elements that will be required or conditionally required in SCRS total approximately 70, which
significantly exceeds the 12 data elements specifically identified in Chapter 2011-49, Laws of Florida. The
purpose and intent of the contract management system has greatly expanded beyond a public access
system. Much of the extra information does not meet the definition of plain language and will not be readily
understood by the public. The compliance requirement of correlating contract payments to contracts entered
into the reporting system was not addressed in the law.
Response: Chapter 2011-49 established the requirement for the system and stated “The data
collected in the system must include, but need not be limited to…” certain data elements. In the
name of statewide efficiency, the CFO decided to incorporate data requirements in two other systems
into SCRS to eliminate multiple input of the same data. Section 17.03(3), Florida Statutes allows the
CFO to “adopt and disseminate to the agencies procedural and documentation standards for payment
requests…”
DFS – Response To
Policy Impact Statement
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