STAND. COM. REP. 1457

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1262

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1262, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to amend the State's procurement policies and procedures by, among other things:

(1) Removing architects, landscape architects, professional engineers, surveyors, and land surveyors from the definition of "professional services" and designating them instead as "design professional services";

(2) Establishing procedures for the procurement of design professional services that involve review and selection committees to evaluate and rank qualified parties;

(3) Ranking the selection criteria for professional services and design professional services to be used by the selection committees;

(4) Requiring that only professional service contracts exceeding $25,000 be posted electronically;

(5) Allowing nonselected professional and design professional service providers and unsuccessful competitive sealed bid offerors to request a debriefing;

(6) Requiring the Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS), with the State Procurement Office and Procurement Policy Board, to conduct a study of the small business and qualified rehabilitation program provisions; and

(7) Establishing the Hawaii Procurement Institute, in cooperation with the William S. Richardson School of Law, to provide education and training for Hawaii’s contractors and to promote and develop a professional acquisition workforce through education and training.

Testifying in support of this bill were: the American Institute of Architects Hawaii State Council, Building Industry Association – Hawaii, Pacific Geotechnical Engineers, Inc., Paul Louie & Associates, Inc., Kauahikaua & Chun/Architects, Group 70 International, Inc., Austin Tsutsumi & Associates, Inc., Clifford Projects Inc., Parsons Brinckerhoff, Earth Tech, Inc., Consulting Structural Hawaii, Inc., and three concerned individuals.

The American Council of Engineering Companies of Hawaii, American Public Works Association – Hawaii Chapter, Hawaii Society of Professional Engineers, Miyasato Kuniyoshi Engineers LLC, Pacific Structural Consultants, Inc., and one concerned individual supported this bill with amendments.

The State Procurement Office and DAGS supported the intent of this measure with amendments. The City and County of Honolulu, County of Hawaii, and the County of Kauai Department of Water opposed portions of this bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1262, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

 

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair