Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF1335

2E Regulating state construction contracts; modifying certain competitive
bidding procedures for state government procurement purposes; granting the
commissioner of administration and the Minnesota state colleges and universities
system (MnSCU) certain authority relating to the use of design build or
construction manager at risk methods of project delivery or job order
contracting, specifying certain limits and defining certain terms; specifying
certain authority of the commissioner relating to solicitation and award of
contracts and selection of contractors, limits; requiring a commissioner report
to the legislature by a certain date on the number and total cost of projects
delivered under the contracts; placing certain conflict of interest restrictions
on members of the designer selection board; specifying certain design builder
licensing requirements and regulating the solicitation of qualifications or
proposals; authorizing and providing for the university of Minnesota to use the
design build method of project delivery for certain larger construction or
remodeling projects, limits; prescribing the design build qualification based
selection process and specifying certain requirements for commissioner
acceptance; enumerating certain specific requirements for selection of design
and price based proposals, requiring board review and after acceptance a fixed
price contract between the commissioner and the design builder; providing for
the solicitation of qualifications for construction managers at risk and for
contract negotiations; authorizing and providing for commissioner use of job
order contracting for certain smaller projects, requiring selection of the
contractor submitting the lowest price bid without unduly restricting
competition or imposing conditions beyond reasonable requirements to ensure
maximum participation of qualified contractors, requiring commissioner
development of a system to ensure a reasonable opportunity for qualified
contractors to bid on construction services on a periodic basis
(ra, ja)