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SPO corrects cost estimate for contractor past-performance database; committee hears concerns about timing and scope

2225330 · February 5, 2025
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Summary

On Feb. 4 the State Procurement Office said updating the contractors past-performance database will cost up to $30,000 (not $7,500 as earlier reported). Committee members questioned who will input assessments, when updates would occur and whether a one-year post-completion review should be required.

The Senate Committee on Government Operations heard testimony Feb. 4 on Senate Bill 1175, which would add state contractor performance assessments to information required in the State Procurement Office's past-performance database.

Bonnie Kahakui, Administrator of the State Procurement Office, told the committee the office stands on its written testimony in support but that a previously reported development cost of $7,500 was incorrect. "In actuality, that cost is $30,000," Kahakui said, correcting the figure for the committee.

Committee members pressed…

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