STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1446-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 3373

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 3373, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the deadline for submitting written protests that are based on the content of a solicitation.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Procurement Office and Nan, Inc. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, Department of Budget and Fiscal Services of the City and County of Honolulu, and General Contractors Association of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that the existing law is potentially confusing as to the deadline for submitting written protests that are based on the content of a solicitation. Your Committee further finds that this measure will clearly outline the deadline for written protests.

Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying that a protest of an award shall be submitted in writing within five working days after the posting of an award of a contract for professional services, if no request for debriefing has been made.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3373, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3373, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair