Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1136, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require competitive bidding on construction contracts for drilling and soil testing costing less than $25,000.

Specifically, the measure requires that construction procurements of less than $25,000 that contract for drilling work and soil testing be made by competitive sealed bid and that the bid on drilling and soil testing be a separate procurement from the engineering work on the same project.

The measure also requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to advertise the bid request on the Department's website.

Your Committee has amended the measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity and to preserve the consistent use of terms within chapter 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1136, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1136, S.D. 2.