Fifty-fourth Legislature                                                Education

First Regular Session                                                   S.B. 1256

 

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1256

(Reference to printed bill)

 


Page 8, strike lines 4 through 36, insert:

"Sec. 3.  School procurement consulting pilot program; qualifications; report; definition; delayed repeal

A.  On or before September 1, 2019, the school facilities board shall select three school districts with ongoing or planned procurements of construction services using alternative project delivery methods for the purpose of establishing a school procurement consulting pilot program.  One of the schools selected must have an average daily membership of two thousand or more but less than eight thousand and two must have an average daily membership of less than two thousand.  Each school district selected shall agree to participate in the pilot program.  Each of the selected school districts shall have ongoing or planned procurements of construction services and alternative project delivery methods either as a school facilities board-approved project or as a locally procured project that is not submitted to or paid for through the school facilities board.

B.  The school facilities board shall provide technical assistance and procurement consulting services for the selected school districts, including drafting specifications, developing solicitations, managing the procurement and construction processes and reviewing all bids, proposals, responses to requests for information, technical offers, statements of qualifications, specifications and protests.  The school facilities board shall provide guidance and advice to the school district's procurement evaluation committee, if any, but may not serve as a voting member of the committee.

C.  On or before September 1, 2020, the school facilities board shall submit a report of its findings to the governor, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the chairperson of the house of representatives education committee, or its successor committee, and the chairperson of the senate education committee, or its successor committee, and shall provide a copy of the report to the secretary of state.

D.  For the purposes of this section, "construction" has the same meaning prescribed in section 41‑2503, Arizona Revised Statutes.

E.  This section is repealed from and after February 15, 2021."

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02/18/2019

11:32 AM

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