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Committee advances bill to tighten budget-to-procurement timeline and require pre‑RFP work
Summary
House Bill 301 would add procurement and budget-submission requirements aimed at reducing delays between appropriation and contract award, require intent-to-solicit notices, set review timelines, and require agencies to submit draft RFPs with budget requests; committee voted to send the bill to the floor with a due‑pass recommendation.
Representative Raybould presented House Bill 301 as a package of changes to the State Procurement Act intended to reduce lag time between an appropriation and contract award and to improve market-based budgeting. He said the bill would require agencies to submit a market estimate for budget line items over $250,000 and, where appropriate, provide a draft request for proposal (RFP) at the time of the agency’s budget…
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