Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF1109

E Providing for use of the design build method of construction for state
transportation projects; authorizing and providing for commissioner of
transportation (DOT) solicitation and award of design build contracts on a best
value selection process basis for certain transportation projects using the
competitive process for design build services solicitation, limit, requiring
commissioner notice to the legislature of decisions to use the design build
method and the reason for choosing the method, subjecting the design build
method of state transportation project delivery to state law relating to
municipal consent to highways in municipalities; specifying certain general and
specific criteria for awarding the contracts; requiring commissioner summary
reports of reasons for using the design build construction contracting
procedure; specifying certain contracting personnel licensing or registration
requirements, liability retention provision; requiring and providing for the
commissioner to establish a phased procedure for awarding the contracts,
requiring appointment of a technical review committee and preparation of
requests for qualifications, specifying certain RFQ content requirements;
requiring selection team (technical review committee) evaluation of the
qualifications of responding firms and compilation of a short list of qualified
firms based on the required criteria; requiring commissioner issuance of
requests for proposals (RFP) to the design builders on the list, specifying
certain request content requirements, regulating team member replacement and
specifying certain duties of the commissioner and the technical review committee
relating to proposals received, prescribing a scoring procedure and authorizing
and providing for bid adjustments under certain time factor conditions,
requiring commissioner selection of the design builder with the lowest adjusted
score, authorizing the rejection of all proposals; providing an alternative
contracting process for certain lower priced projects; requiring and providing
for the commissioner to award a stipulated fee to proposers providing
unsuccessful proposals; authorizing the commissioner to use low bid design build
procedures to award design build contracts for certain projects, specifying
certain process requirements and restrictions; requiring the commissioner to
annually submit to the governor and the legislature a listing of all executed
design build contracts, specifying certain report content requirements (mk, ja)