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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §1743, as amended by PL 1989, c. 596, Pt. N, §3, is
repealed and the following enacted in its place:

 
§1743.__Competitive bids

 
1.__Competitive bids.__A contract for any public improvement
that the State or any of its agencies hold in fee involving a
total cost in excess of $100,000, except contracts for
professional, architectural and engineering services, may be
awarded by the Department of Administrative and Financial
Services through the Bureau of General Services, under a system
of competitive bidding in accordance with chapters 141 to 155 and
other conditions and restrictions the Governor may prescribe.

 
2.__Methods of construction.__A public improvement under
subsection 1 may be undertaken using the design-build,
construction-manager-at-risk or construction-manager-advisor
method of construction or the services of an owner's
representative.

 
A.__The design-build method must generally follow those
guidelines developed by a national architects, general
contractors or design-build organization or a combined or
modified version of those entities, with the final design-
build procedures and documents to be determined at the sole
discretion of the Bureau of General Services.__The Bureau of
General Services is permitted to prequalify design-build
teams using criteria that must include at a minimum those
set forth in section 1747 but may also include criteria
considered appropriate by the Director of General Services,
in the director's sole discretion.__The Director of General
Services shall adopt policies and procedures to implement
this paragraph.__Such policies and procedures may include
payment of a stipend to any design-build team that has been
qualified to submit and does submit a proposal.

 
B.__The construction-manager-at-risk method must generally
follow the concepts set forth in a standard form of
agreement between an owner and a construction manager when
the construction manager is also the constructor as
established by national architects or general contractor
organizations, with the final documents to be determined at
the sole discretion of the Director of General Services.

 
C.__The construction-manager-advisor method, sometimes
referred to as the "agent-construction-manager method," must
generally follow the standard scope of services employed by
the Bureau of General Services.


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