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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘Resolve, Directing the Bureau of General Services To Include Quantitative Analysis in Its Evaluation of Competitive Bids’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1 Inclusion of quantitative analysis in evaluation of competitive bids. Resolved: That the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of General Services shall develop a process to include quantitative analysis as a required criterion in its evaluation of the total value of competitive bids for purchases and for public improvement contracts and of other competitively bid state contracts. The quantitative analysis process must include the use of multipliers for factors including, but not limited to, raw materials from in-state sources, the number of state residents employed and the use of vendors, consultants and subcontractors from the State; and be it further
Sec. 2 Develop recommendations and legislation. Resolved: That, based on its process developed pursuant to section 1, the bureau shall develop recommendations and proposed legislation regarding the incorporation of quantitative analysis in its evaluation of competitive bids. The bureau shall submit its recommendations, together with implementing legislation, to the Joint Standing Committee on State and Local Government by December 15, 2015. After receipt and review of the bureau's recommendations and proposed legislation, the committee may submit a bill to the Second Regular Session of the 127th Legislature.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment is the minority report of the committee. It changes the bill to a resolve and changes its title. It directs the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of General Services to develop a process to include quantitative analysis as a required criterion in its evaluation of the total value of competitive bids for purchases and for public improvement contracts and of other competitively bid state contracts. It also directs the bureau to develop and submit recommendations and proposed legislation regarding the incorporation of quantitative analysis in its evaluation of competitive bids to the Joint Standing Committee on State and Local Government by December 15, 2015 and allows the committee to submit a bill to the Second Regular Session of the 127th Legislature.
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