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SF 1746 Senate Long Description

E Authorizing the commissioner of administration to temporarily use a design build method of project development and construction for state buildings awarding design build contracts on a design based selection process basis without competitive bids or to preselect contractors and negotiate a guaranteed maximum price with optional bidding of subcontracts and sharing of savings, authorizing the commissioner to require designers and preselected contractors to cooperate and function as a team; granting the same authority to the board of regents for university of Minnesota construction projects and to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities for MnSCU construction projects; defining design builder under designer selection board provisions and requiring and establishing a temporary process for the board to select design builders; providing for design build and preselection construction contracts under the state procurement process; specifying the authority and certain requirements of the commissioner under the process, requiring commissioner and university of Minnesota and MnSCU adoption of exempt rules establishing procedures for the solicitation and award of design build contracts or the preselection of contracts; specifying certain designer selection board proposals solicitation restrictions and providing for certain stipends; specifying certain design builder licensing requirements; requiring and providing for the development of design criteria packages; providing for the solicitation, evaluation and acceptance of proposals, specifying certain duties of the board and certain options of the commissioner; establishing the design based selection process; prescribing the process for preselection of contractors, specifying certain request for proposals and contractor response requirements; authorizing the commissioner to require a bid bond; requiring the commissioner to accept the proposal best meeting the weighted evaluation criteria in the request, requiring perceived benefits of higher priced proposals to merit the additional cost; requiring commissioner evaluation of contractor experience, technical competence, performance capability and past performance; authorizing the designer selection board to require clarification or further information; requiring capitol area architectural and planning board (CAAPB) participation in the evaluation process for projects within the capitol area (mk, ja)