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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 6419
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AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
C 235 L 88
State of Washington 50th Legislature 1988 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Governmental Operations (originally sponsored by Senators Zimmerman and Rasmussen)
Read first time 2/4/88.
AN ACT Relating to contracts by port districts; and amending RCW 53.08.120.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 2, chapter 348, Laws of 1955 as last amended by section 1, chapter 92, Laws of 1982 and RCW 53.08.120 are each amended to read as follows:
All
material required by a port district may be procured in the open market or by
contract and all work ordered may be done by contract or day labor. All such
contracts for work, the estimated cost of which exceeds ((forty)) one
hundred thousand dollars, shall be let at public bidding upon notice
published in a newspaper in the district at least ten days before the letting,
calling for sealed bids upon the work, plans and specifications for which shall
then be on file in the office of the commission for public inspection. The
same notice may call for bids on such work or material based upon plans and
specifications submitted by the bidder.
Each port district shall maintain a small works roster which shall be comprised of all contractors who have requested to be on the roster and are, where required by law, properly licensed or registered to perform such work in the state of Washington.
Whenever
work is done by contract, the estimated cost of which is ((forty)) one
hundred thousand dollars or less, the managing official of the port
district ((shall)) may invite proposals from all appropriate
contractors on the small works roster: PROVIDED, That not less than five
separate appropriate contractors shall be invited to submit proposals on any
individual contract: PROVIDED FURTHER, That whenever possible, the managing
official shall invite at least one proposal from a minority contractor who
shall otherwise qualify under this section. Such invitation shall include an
estimate of the scope and nature of the work to be performed, and materials and
equipment to be furnished.
When
awarding such a contract for work, ((the estimated cost of which is forty
thousand dollars or less)) when utilizing proposals from the small works
roster, the managing official shall give weight to the contractor
submitting the lowest and best proposal, and whenever it would not violate the
public interest, such contracts shall be distributed equally among contractors,
including minority contractors, on the small works roster.