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Dallas Water Utilities seeks flexibility on price weighting for large procurements; committee discussion asks for safeguards
Summary
Dallas Water Utilities asked the committee to allow project-by-project deviation from the statutory 50% price-weight baseline in competitive sealed proposals; council members asked about cost controls, past contractor performance and debarment safeguards.
Dallas Water Utilities and committee members discussed a proposed change that would allow competitive sealed-proposal procurements to use a price weighting below the statutory 50% baseline on a project-by-project basis.
Utility representatives explained the statute sets 50% as the baseline weight for price in best-value procurements but that governing bodies may lower it to as little as 36.9 percent where public interest…
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