Bill Text: HI HB2072 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Procurement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-04 - The committee(s) on GVR recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2072 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-HB2072-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
The purposes of this Act are to improve procurement efficiency, minimize risks, and save taxpayer dollars by:
(1) Streamlining the nomination process for the procurement policy board;
(2) Adjusting the membership of the procurement policy board;
(3) Defining procurement automation system;
(4) Authorizing the administrator of the state procurement office to develop and administer procurement automation systems and to charge and collect a transaction fee from all vendors using the procurement automation systems to fund the development, implementation, and maintenance of the systems;
(5) Creating a procurement automation system special fund;
(6) Amending section 103D-1010 to conform with the amendment made to section 103D-1001 by Act 55, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021; and
(7) Adding one position to manage the procurement automation systems and another four positions to ensure oversight over state and county procurement and complex procurement issues.
The state procurement office is responsible for reviewing the solicitation, award, and administration of contracts, advising government agencies on procurement issues, and providing procurement training to the State's decentralized procurement staff.
The state procurement office also supports the procurement policy board, which has the authority to adopt rules governing procurement and consider applicants for the position of the state procurement administrator. The procurement policy board has been unable to meet because it cannot achieve quorum due to a number of vacant positions. This Act streamlines the nomination process for procurement policy board applicants by eliminating the procurement policy board nominating committee and changing the membership of the procurement policy board from seven to five members.
The state procurement office administers statewide, multi-agency contracts that take advantage of the State's aggregated purchasing power to leverage better pricing and value for the State and the counties. In fiscal year 2018-2019, these contracts saved the State of Hawaii and its political subdivisions approximately $19,000,000 in goods and services, plus savings in personnel, purchasing, and subject matter expert hours.
Government purchasing offices for several states operate using a self-funded model derived from a transaction fee ranging from one per cent to two-and-a-half per cent charged to all contracts in their respective procurement automation systems. Beginning in fiscal year 2022-2023, the Hawaii state procurement office would assess all vendors a transaction fee not to exceed two-and-a-half per cent on each order the vendor receives on the procurement automation systems. This transaction fee will be used to pay for the development, implementation, legacy transition, maintenance, system training, configuration, and management of procurement automation systems. To manage the systems, the state procurement office requests the addition of one position.
The special committee on State of Hawaii procurement, which has been reviewing state procurement policies and procedures, informally informed the state procurement office that additional oversight over complex procurement issues, such as construction procurement for the State, is necessary. To provide adequate guidance and oversight to state and county agencies, the state procurement office will require qualified procurement personnel and thus seeks the addition of four positions.
SECTION 2. Chapter 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding to part II a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§103D- State
procurement automation system special fund. (a)
There is established in the state treasury the state procurement
automation system special fund to be administered by the state procurement
office, into which shall be deposited:
(1) All revenues
from the operation of the state procurement automation systems, including transaction
fees collected from all vendors using the procurement automation systems;
(2) Interest earned
on money in the state procurement automation system special fund; and
(3) Appropriations
made by the legislature to the fund.
(b) Moneys in the state procurement automation system special fund shall be used by the state procurement office for the development, implementation, management, and operation of the state procurement automation systems."
SECTION 3. Section 103D-104, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a definition:
""Procurement automation system" means an eProcurement, accounting-oriented, multi-module, data-based system that integrates procurement activities from solicitation to contract management."
SECTION 4. Section 103D-201, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§103D-201
Creation and membership of the procurement policy board. (a)
There is hereby created an autonomous state procurement policy
board. The policy board shall be [assigned,]
placed, for administrative purposes only, [to] within
the department of accounting and general services.
(b) The policy board shall consist of [seven]
five members. Notwithstanding the
limitations of section 78-4, the members of the board shall include:
(1) The comptroller;
(2) A county employee with significant high-level procurement experience; and
(3) [Five] Three persons who
shall not otherwise be full-time employees of the State or any county; provided
that [at least] one member shall be a [certified] professional in
the field of procurement, [at least] one member shall have significant [high-level]
federal procurement experience, and [at least two members] one member
shall have significant experience in the field of health and human services.
Each
appointed member shall have demonstrated sufficient business or professional
experience to discharge the functions of the policy board. The initial and subsequent members of the
policy board, other than the comptroller, shall be [appointed by the governor
from a list of three individuals for each vacant position, submitted by a
nominating committee composed of four individuals chosen as follows: two persons appointed by the governor; one
person appointed by the president of the senate; and one person appointed by
the speaker of the house.] nominated and, by and with the advice and
consent of the senate, appointed by the governor for terms of four years each,
provided that each member shall hold office until the member
's successor is appointed and qualified. Except as provided in this section, the
selection and terms of the policy board members shall be subject to the requirements
of section 26-34. No member of the
policy board shall act concurrently as a chief procurement officer. The members of the policy board shall devote
such time to their duties as may be necessary for the proper discharge thereof."
SECTION 5. Section 103D-206, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§103D-206 Additional duties of the administrator of the procurement office. In addition to the duties referred to in section 103D-205, the administrator shall:
(1) Perform periodic
review of the procurement practices and procedures of all governmental bodies,
in collaboration with the state procurement policy board, for compliance with
the procurement code;
(2) Assist, advise, and guide governmental bodies in matters relating to procurement;
(3) Determine corrective actions; provided that if a procurement officer under the jurisdiction of
the administrator of the state procurement office or a chief procurement
officer of any of the other state entities under section 103D-203, fails to
comply with any determination rendered by the administrator within thirty days
from the date of the issuance of the determination, or longer if permitted by
the administrator upon request by the procurement officer or a chief
procurement officer, the procurement officer or chief procurement officer shall
be subject to an administrative fine under section 103D-106, for every day of
noncompliance;
(4) Develop and administer a statewide procurement orientation and training
program;
(5) Develop, distribute,
and maintain a procurement manual for all state procurement officials; [and]
(6) Develop, distribute,
and maintain a procurement guide for vendors wishing to do business with the
State and its counties[.];
(7) Develop and
administer procurement automation systems; and
(8) Assess, charge,
and collect a transaction fee for the use of the procurement automation systems
to cover procurement automation system costs."
SECTION 6. Section 103D-1010, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"[[]§103D-1010[]] Purchases from qualified community
rehabilitation programs. (a) Any governmental body, without advertising or
calling for bids, may purchase goods or services provided by qualified
community rehabilitation programs serving persons with disabilities that have
indicated an interest in supplying the goods or services and on an equitable
basis may apportion the business among the interested programs; provided that
the goods and services meet the specifications and needs of the purchasing
agency and are purchased at a fair market price as determined by the
appropriate public agency; and provided further that the programs [comply
with the following:
(1) Meet] meet
all of the requirements of a qualified community rehabilitation program under
section 103D-1001[; and
(2) Maintain a
disabled to non-disabled employee ratio equal to or greater than three-to-one for
work hours of direct labor at all times on the work contracted]."
SECTION 7. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $350,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022–2023 to fund five purchasing specialist positions, which includes one position to manage the procurement automation system, in the state procurement office.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the state procurement office for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 8. Statutory material to be repealed is
bracketed and stricken. New statutory
material is underscored.
SECTION 9. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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INTRODUCED BY: |
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BY REQUEST |
Report Title:
Procurement; Automation System; Special Fund; Procurement Policy Board
Description:
Amends the nomination process and the number of the members for the Procurement Policy Board; authorizes the State Procurement Administrator to develop and administer procurement automation systems and assess, charge, and collect a transaction fee from all vendors using the procurement automation systems; establish a procurement automation system special fund; and amends section 103D-1010, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to conform with the amendments made to section 103D-1001, HRS.
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