Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation for professional services.
Summary
Provides that for competitive negotiation for professional services, except in the case of the procurement of architectural or engineering services, a public body may conduct negotiations simultaneously with the top two ranked offerors if the public body does not request or discuss nonbinding estimates of total project costs at the discussion stage and as long as such process is set forth in the Request for Proposal.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2017
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Dec 29, 2017
Last action Mar 6, 2018
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
13
Key actions
2
Committee
5
Amendments
2
Feb 20, 2018
Legislature · Passed
Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2019 by voice vote
legislature
Feb 13, 2018
Committee
Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
legislature
Jan 31, 2018
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws
legislature
Jan 25, 2018
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended SB188E
legislature
Jan 25, 2018
Legislature · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
legislature
Jan 25, 2018
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
legislature
Dec 29, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
legislature
Dec 29, 2017
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102579D
legislature
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Barbara Favola
DDemocratic
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