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SF 1109 Senate Long Description

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)