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CPARB proposes 10% cap, tighter language for new $300,000 self‑perform allowance under HB 1621
Summary
Capital Projects Advisory Review Board representatives told the Legislature's Local Government Committee that changes to House Bill 1621's self-performance thresholds and bidder-responsibility language are needed to reduce confusion and limit how much public entities can self-perform without bidding.
Representatives of the Capital Projects Advisory Review Board urged the Local Government Committee to clarify and narrow a new category of public self-performance work created under recent legislation.
Lyneth Riley Hall, chair of the Capital Projects Advisory Review Board, told the committee the board has completed stakeholder work and identified recommendations to address confusion that arose after the 2024 changes to bidder-responsibility and self-performance thresholds.
The recommendations would: eliminate alternative bidder-responsibility provisions and instead reference RCW 39.04.350 for consistency; remove exceptions that excluded materials and equipment from a new $300,000 self-perform threshold; replace the phrase "prudent utility management" with a narrower definition, "exigent circumstances;" and…
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