CODE OF VIRGINIA PROSCRIBED PARTICIPATION BY PUBLIC EMPLOYEES IN PROCUREMENT TRANSACTIONS (§ 2.2-4369) Except as may be specifically allowed by subdivisions A 2, 3 and 4 of § 2.2-3112, no public employee having official responsibility for a procurement transaction shall participate in that transaction on behalf of the public body when the employee knows that: 1. The employee is contemporaneously employed by a bidder, offeror or contractor involved in the procurement transaction; 2. The employee, the employee’s partner, or any member of the employee’s immediate family holds a position with a bidder, offeror or contractor such as an officer, director, trustee, partner or the like, or is employed in a capacity involving personal and substantial participation in the procurement transaction, or owns or controls an interest of more than five percent; 3. The employee, the employee’s partner, or any member of the employee’s immediate family has a pecuniary interest arising from the procurement transaction; or 4. The employee, the employee’s partner, or any member of the employee’s immediate family is negotiating, or has an arrangement concerning, prospective employment with a bidder, offeror or contractor. HISTORY: 1982, c. 647, § 11-74; 1985, c. 565; 1987, Sp. Sess., c. 1; 1997, c. 83; 2001, c. 844; 2003, c. 694.