Bill Text: HI HCR204 | 2015 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Comprehensive review of the State Procurement process
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-01 - Received notice of Adoption in House (Hse. Com. No. 650). [HCR204 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2015-HCR204-Amended.html
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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HOUSE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
REQUESTING THE STATE PROCUREMENT ADMINISTRATOR TO COLLECT INFORMATION ON EACH OF THE INDIVIDUAL PROCUREMENT JURISDICTIONS.
WHEREAS, Hawaii's decentralized State procurement system consists of the State Procurement Administrator who assists, advises, and guides governmental bodies in matters relating to procurement for twenty-one procurement jurisdictions; and
WHEREAS, each of the twenty-one procurement jurisdictions is under the direction of an individual chief procurement officer who administers all contracts with city, county, state, and federal governments throughout the State; and
WHEREAS, each individual procurement jurisdiction has numerous assigned employees with different job titles and experience; and
WHEREAS, each individual procurement jurisdiction has a variety of contracts to award and monitor with different degrees of detail and associated tasks; and
WHEREAS, each individual procurement jurisdiction may not be adequately staffed to meet the mandates of the contract award and contract monitoring requirements; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2015, the Senate concurring, that the State Procurement Administrator is requested to collect information on each of the individual procurement jurisdictions including but not limited to the following areas:
(1) A breakout of each procurement jurisdiction to identify activities of each division within a large state department;
(2) The current number of staffed positions and job titles within each procurement jurisdiction;
(3) The identification of vacant positions within each procurement jurisdiction and status of recruitment;
(4) The average annual number of contracts assigned to each procurement jurisdiction;
(5) The current level of contract oversight required during the entire procurement process; and
(6) The staffing recommendations needed to bring each procurement jurisdiction up to satisfactory performance levels; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the State Procurement Administrator submit findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2016; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor and the State Procurement Administrator.
Comprehensive review of the State Procurement process
