| Passed by the Senate March 12, 2007 YEAS 49 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate Passed by the House April 6, 2007 YEAS 96 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives | I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5798 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. THOMAS HOEMANN ________________________________________ Secretary | |
| Approved April 20, 2007, 2:52 p.m. CHRISTINE GREGOIRE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | April 20, 2007 Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 60th Legislature | 2007 Regular Session |
Read first time 02/01/2007. Referred to Committee on Transportation.
AN ACT Relating to design-build construction for transportation projects; and amending RCW 47.20.780.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1 RCW 47.20.780 and 2001 c 226 s 2 are each amended to read
as follows:
The department of transportation shall develop a process for
awarding competitively bid highway construction contracts for projects
over ten million dollars that may be constructed using a design-build
procedure. As used in this section and RCW 47.20.785, "design-build
procedure" means a method of contracting under which the department of
transportation contracts with another party for the party to both
design and build the structures, facilities, and other items specified
in the contract.
The process developed by the department must, at a minimum, include
the scope of services required under the design-build procedure,
contractor prequalification requirements, criteria for evaluating
technical information and project costs, contractor selection criteria,
and issue resolution procedures.
((This section expires April 30, 2008.))