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With certain exceptions, the State Purchasing Act governs the purchasing of services, supplies, materials and equipment by agencies of the Executive Department of the State Government, which are known as using agencies under the Act. (Chapter 333 of NRS) Unless the Administrator of the Purchasing Division of the Department of Administration is responsible for administering the contract, each proposal received for a request for a contract of a using agency under the Act is required under existing law to be evaluated by the chief of the using agency, or a committee appointed by the chief of the using agency. Under existing law, the chief of the using agency or the committee, if appointed, is required to: (1) consider and assign a score for each factor disclosed in the request for proposals; and (2) award the contract based on the total assigned scores. (NRS 333.335) Existing law also creates the Board of the Public Employees' Benefits Program and requires the Board to establish the Public Employees' Benefits Program to provide a program of group life, accident or health insurance for the benefit of state officers and employees and other authorized participants. (NRS 287.041, 287.043) Under existing law, the Program is subject to the provisions of the State Purchasing Act and the Board is required to act as the chief of the using agency for the purposes of the evaluation of proposals for and award of contracts of the Program under the Act. (NRS 287.04345) Because the Boa