STAND. COM. REP. NO.  441

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 985

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 985 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to preserve creativity and competition in the construction contract procurement process by establishing and incorporating the design-build process as an alternative procurement method into the Hawaii Public Procurement Code, to be employed at the discretion of the procurement officer.  The two-tiered process requires offerors to submit a statement of qualification, from which no more than five will be selected to submit proposals for the contract.  At the onset of the request for proposals a fee will be determined to reimburse those offerors with responsive designs.   

 

     Kennedy/Jenks Consultants; Fukunaga & Associates; ECS, Inc.; Gray, Hong, Nojima & Associates, Inc.; Coalition of Hawaii Engineering and Architectural Professionals; American Society of Civil Engineers; American Council of Engineering Companies; Consulting Structural Hawaii, Inc.; Engineering Concepts, Inc.; Okahara & Associates, Inc.; Ronald N.S. Ho & Associates, Inc.; and The Limtiaco Consulting Group testified in support of this measure.  The State Procurement Office supported the intent of this bill.

 


     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Defining "design-build" to apply to the Hawaii Public Procurement Code;

 

     (2)  Deleting unnecessary language regarding rulemaking provisions for procurement procedures;

 

     (3)  Changing the process for design-build procurement to conform to the 2000 Model Procurement Code for State and Local Governments, as issued by the American Bar Association as a nondiscretionary process; and

 

     (4)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2112, to promote further discussions.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 985, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 985, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business,

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair