Bill Text: MI HB4967 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: State financing and management; purchasing; state contracts; exclude prequalification for seeding, sodding, landscaping, and signage. Amends secs. 1 & 3 of 1933 PA 170 (MCL 123.501 & 123.503).
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-09-17 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 09/17/2019 [HB4967 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB4967-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4967
September 12, 2019, Introduced by Reps.
Mueller, Sneller, Bellino, Miller, O'Malley, Howell, Eisen, Meerman,
Sheppard and Afendoulis and referred to the Committee on Transportation.
A bill to amend 1933 PA 170, entitled
"An act to regulate the practice of taking bids and awarding contracts on public work construction, maintenance or repair work, except public buildings, and to provide a means of prohibiting those not qualified by experience, financial resources or any other valid reason from undertaking such public construction work,"
by amending sections 1 and 3 (MCL 123.501 and 123.503).
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 1. (1) Any officer, board, commission, committee or department of the this state, county, city, village, or township government authorized to receive bids for the construction, maintenance, and/or or repair of public works, except public buildings, may require that any person proposing to bid on any such that work, submit a sworn statement at least 10 days before bids are opened on such a standard form and in such the detail and at such the time as may be deemed determined necessary by said that officer, board, commission, committee, or department, setting forth his or her other qualifications to satisfactorily carry out the work to be performed within the time specified for such performance under the contract. Said The qualifications may be judged by said that officer, board, commission, committee, or department upon the basis of the proposed bidder's past performance on work of a similar nature, his or her financial resources, and his or her construction equipment and facilities which he or she proposes to use on the work advertised for construction as disclosed by such the sworn statement and any other available information. and Based on the sworn statement, the officer, board, commission, committee, or department may make a determination made whether or not the proposed bidder is a suitable person to bid on the work. Any person determined not to be a suitable person to bid on any proposed work shall be notified in writing 5 days before bids are opened of such for that determination.
(2) The prequalification provisions of subsection (1) and section 3 do not apply to contracts for any of the following associated with road or highway construction within this state:
(a) Seeding.
(b) Sodding.
(c) Landscaping.
(d) Signage.
(3) The prequalification provisions of subsection (1) and section 3 apply as follows:
(a) Only to prime contractors if the amount of the contract is $10,000,000.00 or less.
(b) To prime contractors and all other contractors involved with the project if the amount of the contract is more than $10,000,000.00.
(4) As used in this section, "prime contractor" means the entity that holds the contract with the state, county, city, village, or township for the projects described in subsection (1).
Sec. 3. It is further provided that when, Except as otherwise provided in section 1, in the judgment of such an officer, board, commission, committee, or department described in section 1, the volume of work regularly advertised for construction would justify such course, that the prequalification of bidders is necessary, bidders on public work may be rated according to their experience, equipment, and resources and be furnished with proposals, plans, and specifications for only such that type and quantity of work as their qualifications as outlined in section 1 of this act would warrant.
