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                         SENATE BILL 5611

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senators Morton, Haugen, Hochstatter, Prince, Wood, McCaslin, Long and Winsley

Read first time 01/30/95.  Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce & Trade.

Limiting the time period for submitting protests that bids on public works do not list subcontractors.

    AN ACT Relating to bids on public works; and amending RCW 39.30.060.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 39.30.060 and 1994 c 91 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    Every invitation to bid on a contract that is expected to cost in excess of one hundred thousand dollars for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work of the state or a state agency or municipality as defined under RCW 39.04.010, an institution of higher education as defined under RCW 28B.10.016, or a school district shall require each bidder to submit as part of the bid, or within one hour after the published bid submittal time, the names of the subcontractors whose subcontract amount is more than ten percent of the contract price with whom the bidder, if awarded the contract, will subcontract for performance of the categories of work designated on the list to be submitted with the bid or to indicate by naming itself that a category of work on the list shall not be subcontracted.  Failure to name such subcontractors or itself shall render the bidder's bid nonresponsive and, therefore, void.  A protest claiming that a bid did not contain the listing of subcontractors required by this section must be submitted within twenty-four hours of the bid award.

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