Counties: cities: construction projects: alternative bidding procedures: design-build.

Existing law authorizes counties to use alternative procedures, known as design-build, for bidding on construction projects in the county in excess of $2,500,000, in accordance with specified procedures. These procedures include a requirement for contracts awarded, as specified, that a county board of supervisors pay a fee into the State Public Works Enforcement Fund, which funds are continuously appropriated for the Department of Industrial Relations' enforcement of prevailing wage requirements on public works projects. Each county that elects to use the design-build method on a public works project is required to submit a report to the Legislative Analyst's Office before December 1, 2009, containing a description of each public works project procured through the design-build process and completed after November 1, 2004, and before November 1, 2009. Existing law also requires the Legislative Analyst, on or before January 1, 2010, to report to the Legislature on the use of the design-build method by counties. This bill would make various changes in the procedures required for the use of design-build by those counties, as specified. The bill would also revise and expand those reporting provisions to require each county electing to use the design-build method on a public works project to submit to the Legislative Analyst's Office before September 1, 2013, a report containing a description, as specified, of each public works project procured through the design-build process and completed after November 1, 2009, and before August 1, 2013. This bill would require the Legislative Analyst, on or before January 1, 2014, to submit a report to the Legislature, as specified. Existing law authorizing design-build contracts for county construction projects repeals these provisions on January 1, 2011. This bill would extend the repeal date until July 1, 2014. By extending the repeal date, the bill would make an appropriation. Existing law also authorizes cities, until January 1, 2016, to use alternative procedures, known as design-build, for bidding on construction projects in the city in excess of $1,000,000. These procedures also require a city council to pay a fee into the State Public Works Fund, a continuously appropriated fund for the Department of Industrial Relation's enforcement of prevailing wage requirements on public works projects. This bill would make various changes in the procedures required for the use of design-build by those cities, as specified.