STAND. COM. REP. NO. 964

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 

 

RE:     S.B. No. 1465

        S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1465, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to improve the expediency and efficiency of professional services procurements.

 

     Specifically, this measure allows agencies to:

 

     (1)  Rank fewer than three persons when procuring professional services when fewer than three qualified persons respond to a solicitation; and

 

     (2)  Request to use alternative procurement procedures when no qualified person responds to a solicitation.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of the Mayor of the County of Maui and  Division of Purchasing of the County of Kauai.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the State Procurement Office, AIA Hawaii State Council, and American Council of Engineering Companies of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that current state law does not allow for an alternative procedure if less than three qualified persons respond to a professional services notice.  Your Committee further finds that this measure will provide state agencies with an option to proceed when the requisite number of responses to a procurement solicitation are not received.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1465, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1465, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair