HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES             H.C.R. NO.188         
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                     HOUSE  CONCURRENT
                        RESOLUTION

  REQUESTING THE PROCUREMENT POLICY BOARD TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES
    THAT LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF PUBLIC CONTRACTS AWARDED TO
    OUT-OF-STATE VENDORS.



 1        WHEREAS, taxpayers' and other resident generated revenues
 2   should be spent in Hawaii, if they are to generate a positive
 3   multiplier effect on our economy; and
 4   
 5        WHEREAS, the state procurement law in part X, of chapter
 6   103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, already contains provisions
 7   incorporating a preference for Hawaii products; and
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 9        WHEREAS, the Procurement Policy Board is charged with the
10   responsibility to adopt rules governing the procurement,
11   management, and control of all goods, services, and
12   construction; and
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14        WHEREAS, each department, agency, or other authority
15   expending taxpayer or other resident revenues has the ability
16   to limit the number of contracts awarded to out-of-state
17   contractors by reorganizing their invitations for bids and
18   requests for proposals under the procurement law by using the
19   preference provisions more extensively; now, therefore,
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21        BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the
22   Twentieth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session
23   of 1999, the Senate concurring, that the Procurement Policy
24   Board is requested to adopt rules and standards that encourage
25   the award of contracts to in-state contractors and ultimately
26   limit the awards of contractors to a total of five per cent of
27   all contracts awarded and not more than one per cent of any one
28   contract awarded; and
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30        BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Comptroller is requested
31   to assist the Procurement Policy Board by monitoring the
32   distribution of contract awards to in-state and out-of-state
33   contractors, in order to determine whether the Policy Board's
34   efforts are having an effect upon the percentage of funds that
35   stay within the State; and
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 1        BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Policy Board is requested
 2   to report on their progress to the Legislature not later than
 3   twenty days before the convening of the Regular Session of
 4   2000; and
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 6        BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this
 7   Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Comptroller and the
 8   Chairperson of the Procurement Policy Board.
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