CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 6283

 

 

                   Chapter 106, Laws of 2002

 

 

                        57th Legislature

                      2002 Regular Session

 

 

PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICTS--COMPETITIVE BIDDING REQUIREMENTS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/13/02

 

Passed by the Senate February 13, 2002

  YEAS 42   NAYS 5

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House March 6, 2002

  YEAS 93   NAYS 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 6283 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

            TONY M. COOK

                            Secretary

 

 

 

 

 

 

Approved March 22, 2002 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.    

                                FILED          

 

 

           March 22, 2002 - 1:03 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                         SENATE BILL 6283

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             Passed Legislature - 2002 Regular Session

 

State of Washington   57th Legislature        2002 Regular Session

 

By Senators Gardner, Swecker, T. Sheldon, Haugen and Rasmussen

 

Read first time 01/14/2002.  Referred to Committee on State & Local Government.

Changing the monetary threshold for competitive bidding requirements for public hospital districts.  


    AN ACT Relating to competitive bidding requirements for public hospital districts; and amending RCW 70.44.140.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 70.44.140 and 2000 c 138 s 213 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) All materials purchased and work ordered, the estimated cost of which is in excess of ((five)) fifty thousand dollars, shall be by contract.  Before awarding any such contract, the commission shall publish a notice at least thirteen days before the last date upon which bids will be received, inviting sealed proposals for such work.  The plans and specifications must at the time of the publication of such notice be on file at the office of the public hospital district, subject to public inspection:  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That the commission may at the same time, and as part of the same notice, invite tenders for the work or materials upon plans and specifications to be submitted by bidders.  The notice shall state generally the work to be done, and shall call for proposals for doing the same, to be sealed and filed with the commission on or before the day and hour named therein.  Each bid shall be accompanied by bid proposal security in the form of a certified check, cashier's check, postal money order, or surety bond made payable to the order of the commission, for a sum not less than five percent of the amount of the bid, and no bid shall be considered unless accompanied by such bid proposal security.  At the time and place named, such bids shall be publicly opened and read, and the commission shall proceed to canvass the bids, and may let such contract to the lowest responsible bidder upon plans and specifications on file, or to the best bidder submitting his or her own plans and specifications:  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That no contract shall be let in excess of the estimated cost of the materials or work, or if, in the opinion of the commission, all bids are unsatisfactory, they may reject all of them and readvertise, and in such case all bid proposal security shall be returned to the bidders.  If the contract is let, then all bid proposal security shall be returned to the bidders, except that of the successful bidder, which is retained until a contract shall be entered into for the purchase of such materials for doing such work, and a bond to perform such work furnished, with sureties satisfactory to the commission, in an amount to be fixed by the commission, not less than twenty-five percent of contract price in any case, between the bidder and commission, in accordance with the bid.  If such bidder fails to enter into the contract in accordance with the bid and furnish such bond within ten days from the date at which the bidder is notified that he or she is the successful bidder, the bid proposal security and the amount thereof shall be forfeited to the public hospital district.  A low bidder who claims error and fails to enter into a contract is prohibited from bidding on the same project if a second or subsequent call for bids is made for the project.

    (2) As an alternative to the requirements of subsection (1) of this section, a public hospital district may let contracts using the small works roster process under RCW 39.04.155.

    (3) Any purchases with an estimated cost of up to fifteen thousand dollars may be made using the process provided in RCW 39.04.190.

    (4) The commission may waive the competitive bidding requirements of this section pursuant to RCW 39.04.280 if an exemption contained within that section applies to the purchase or public work.


    Passed the Senate February 13, 2002.

    Passed the House March 6, 2002.

Approved by the Governor March 22, 2002.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 22, 2002.