E Relating to state procurement; codifying the provisions regulating the competitive bidding process for state building and construction or repair contracts; requiring standard requirement price contracts for building and construction to be established by competitive bids, authorizing the contracts to contain escalation clauses and to provide for negotiated price increases or decreases and limiting the contract term; specifying certain requirements for expenditures over and under a certain amount and certain standard specifications and security requirements; encouraging state agencies to contract with small targeted group businesses for contracts not subject to competitive bidding procedures; exempting contracts limited to a single source of supply, certain negotiated contracts and emergency purchases from the competitive bidding process; specifying certain lowest responsible bidder contract award requirements; providing for correction of alterations or erasures; authorizing the commissioner of administration to reject the bids of bidders failing to perform previous contracts with the state and authorizing the commissioner to use negotiated procurement methods with tied low bidders under certain price conditions; specifying certain recordkeeping requirements; contract preferences not to be cumulative, prohibiting the total percentage of preference granted on a contract from exceeding the highest percentage of preference allowed for the contract; requiring the commissioner to develop procedures to audit agency personnel delegated contracting authority to ensure compliance with laws and guidelines governing issuance of contracts including laws and guidelines governing conflicts of interest (ra, ja)