Report Title:

Procurement Code; Professionals

Description:

Includes certificated cost engineers in the public procurement of professional services for asbestos abatement projects.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2907

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO PUBLIC PROCUREMENT.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 103D-304, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Professional services shall be procured in accordance with [sections] section 103D-302, 103D-303, 103D-305, 103D-306, or 103D-307, or this section; provided that [design]:

(1) Design professional services furnished by licensees under chapter 464 shall be procured pursuant to this section or section 103D-307[.]; and

(2) Cost estimating, cost management, value engineering, and change order review or negotiation for asbestos abatement projects under chapter 342P may also be furnished by persons holding a certificate issued by the International Cost Engineering Council or the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering and a baccalaureate degree in quantity surveying, civil engineering, or construction science or its equivalent shall be procured pursuant to this section or section 103D-307.

Contracts for professional services shall be awarded on the basis of demonstrated competence and qualification for the type of services required, and at fair and reasonable prices."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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