STAND. COM. REP. NO.  967

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 1470

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1470 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAII PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CODE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the use of federal funds for state projects by allowing government agencies to contract with an offeror without complying with the bid, request- for-proposals, and professional-services requirements of the Hawaii Public Procurement Code (Procurement Code) when:

     (1)  The procurement is funded by state and federal matching funds; and

     (2)  The offeror is a U.S. General Services Administration-approved sole source vendor that is responsible for obtaining the federal funds.

     A concerned individual submitted comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and inserting provisions that exempt, from the Procurement Code, contracts by government bodies to procure goods, services, or construction from a source approved as the sole source by the federal government under a grant from the federal government in any procurement funded by state and federal matching funds or by federal funds alone.  As amended, this measure also contains an effective date of July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1470, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1470, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair