Public works: design-build.

Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services, when authorized by the Legislature to use the design-build procurement process for a specific project, to contract and procure state office facilities, other buildings, structures, and related facilities, as provided. This bill would require the Department of General Services to submit to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, by January 1, 2015, a report containing a description of each public works project procured through the design-build process that is completed after January 1, 2010, and before December 1, 2014. The requirement for submitting a report would become inoperative on January 1, 2019, in accordance with other specified provisions. Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to enter into only 7 design-build contracts pursuant to specified provisions, and requires 2 of these 7 to be for new veterans' homes in Fresno and Shasta counties, as prescribed. This bill would repeal that provision. The bill would also set forth its intent not to void or terminate design-build contracts already executed by the Department of General Services prior to the effective date of the bill.