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House Bill 2581 |
House Author: Kacal |
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Effective: 9-1-21 |
Senate Sponsor: Hancock et al. |
House Bill 2581 amends the Government Code to make applicable to all governmental entities the requirement to publish a detailed methodology for scoring each selection when using a method other than competitive bidding in a request for proposals or qualifications for a construction contract. The bill authorizes an offeror who submits a bid, proposal, or response to a request for qualifications for a government construction contract to make a written request to the governmental entity after the contract is awarded to provide documents related to the evaluation of the offeror's submission and requires the entity to deliver those documents to the offeror, including, if applicable, its ranking of the submission.
Among other provisions, House Bill 2581 requires the weighted value assigned to price for civil works projects included in a governmental entity's request for competitive sealed proposals to be at least 50 percent of the total weighted value of all selection criteria. The bill authorizes a governmental entity whose governing body determines that assigning a lower weighted value to price is in the public interest to assign to price a weighted value of at least 36.9 percent of the total weighted value of all selection criteria. The bill requires a governmental entity selecting an offeror using a competitive sealed proposal method to make the evaluations, including any scores, public and provide them to all offerors.