STAND. COM. REP. NO.  610-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1963

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1963 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Allow two or more separate entities to submit single joint offers in response to solicitation, subject to certain conditions;

 

     (2)  Allow purchasing agencies to award single contracts to two or more separate entities that submit joint offers; and

 

     (3)  Require the Procurement Policy Board to adopt administrative rules that set forth procedures for joint offers and contract awards to joint offerors.

 

     The State Procurement Office opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1963, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1963, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair