Earlier today the General Assembly passed H142 (S.L. 2017-4), Reset of S.L. 2016 repealing HB2 (S.L. 2016-3), the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, which was enacted during a special session held in March 2016. In repealing HB2, H142 enacts a new statute preempting state agency and local governments from regulating access to multiple occupancy […]
Posts Tagged ‘bidders’
HB2 Reset Beyond Bathrooms . . . Local Government Contracting Limitations Repealed
Thursday, March 30th, 2017New Design-Build Construction Method – No Local Act Required
Wednesday, January 29th, 2014Those familiar with local government construction contracting know the drill – put out an RFQ to hire an architect or engineer to design the project and then bid the construction work. But what if a local government wants to hire both its design professional and its contractor at the beginning of the project to work […]
E-Verify Requirements Apply to Public Contracts – NOW!
Wednesday, September 4th, 2013UPDATE: The General Assembly amended the E-Verify contracting prohibition for cities and counties during the 2014 legislative session. Under Section 13 of S.L. 2014-119, which went into effect on October 1, 2014, the E-Verify contracting prohibition now ONLY applies to purchase and construction or repair contracts in the formal bidding ranges (i.e., those subject to […]
2013 Public Purchasing and Contracting Legislative Update – What’s Hot and What’s Not
Thursday, June 6th, 2013The General Assembly’s crossover deadline has come and gone, so now is a good time to pause and take stock of pending legislation affecting public purchasing and contracting. Bills proposing changes to our state’s public contracting statutes include authorizing design-build and public private partnership construction contracts, authorizing local preferences, and requiring E-Verify by construction contractors. […]
Rejecting Bids – Who Can and When Can They?
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011Pauline Purchaser has advertised a contract and is pleased by the number of bids she’s received. When she opens the bids, much to her dismay, she discovers that all are way over budget. As Pauline regroups to figure out what went wrong, she realizes there was a flaw in the specifications. She decides to reject […]
Counting the Days
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011Paul Purchaser is putting the final touches on his first Invitation for Bids (IFB) for Carolina City, and he’s trying to figure out when he has to place the advertisement for the IFB in the newspaper. He knows the formal bidding statute says something about 7 days between the advertisement and the bid opening, but […]
Local Preferences in Public Contracting, Part 6
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010This is the final post in a series on local preference policies. (Earlier posts can be found here, here, here, here, and here.) Once again, we find ourselves listening in on the Emerald City Council meeting where the Council is discussing local preference policies. The Council has just heard from Mr. Green Apple, a representative […]
Local Preferences in Public Contracting, Part 5
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010This is the fifth installment in a series of posts discussing the efforts of the City Council of Emerald City, North Carolina, to support its local businesses by adopting a local preference policy. (You can find the earlier installments here, here, here, and here.) In the last post, City Attorney Tin Man explained the constitutional […]
Local Preferences in Public Contracting, Part 4
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010This is the fourth installment of a series of posts discussing the efforts of the City Council of Emerald City, North Carolina, to support its local businesses by adopting a local preference policy. (You can find the earlier installments here, here, and here.) In the last post, City Attorney Tin Man gave the City Council […]
Local Preferences in Public Contracting, Part 3
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010In my last two posts (here and here), I’ve discussed the efforts of the City Council of Emerald City, North Carolina, to support its local businesses by adopting a local preference policy. Purchasing Officer Scarecrow has just finished reviewing the Council’s goals for the policy: reducing local unemployment, supporting local businesses, increasing Emerald City’s tax […]
Local Preferences in Public Contracting, Part 2
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010In my last post, I talked about the efforts of the City Council of Emerald City, North Carolina, to support its local businesses by adopting a local preference policy. We now rejoin our friends in Emerald City, where the City Council has asked Purchasing Officer Scarecrow to research what goals a preference policy might achieve. […]
Local Preferences in Public Contracting, Part 1
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010Hard times have come to Emerald City, North Carolina. People are out of work, no one is buying or building anything, and it doesn’t look like things will get better anytime soon. The Emerald City Council has decided that they need to take action to help out their local businesses, so they decide to pass […]
Conflicts of Interest and Subcontractors
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010One of your city council members, Georgia Peach, is a plumber, and owns her own plumbing business, Peaches & Plumbs, LLP. Peaches & Plumbs often subcontracts with one of the bigger and more reputable general contractors in town, Constructive Construction, Inc. Your city is getting ready to renovate the town hall, and, as it turns […]
All For One and One For All: Competitive Bidding Group Purchasing Programs
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010Have you heard of U.S. Communities? What about National IPA? Or HGAC? WSCA? TCPN? NJPA? This alphabet soup of organizations (and others like them) can provide North Carolina local governments with purchasing flexibility and efficiency through an exception to the bidding statutes for “competitive bidding group purchasing programs.” This exception, found in G.S. 143-129(e)(3), was […]
Good Faith Efforts? Prove It!
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010Your local government has just received single-prime bids on the construction of a new civic center. After evaluating the bids you’ve received, you determine that Crafty Contractor Construction Company (“Crafty”) is the apparent lowest responsive, responsible bidder. Crafty identified four historically underutilized businesses (HUBs, that is, minority and women-owned businesses) that it will use on […]