GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 139

Short Title:  Single Prime/Capital Projects.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Martin of Guilford.
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Referred to:  Rules and Operation of the Senate.
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February 15, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT A RECOMMENDATION OF THE GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AUDIT COMMITTEE TO COLLECT INFORMATION ON CONTRACTING CAPITAL PROJECTS AND TO DEVELOP STRATEGIES AND GOALS FOR USING SINGLE PRIME CONTRACTORS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Section 3 of Chapter 480 of the 1989 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3. The State Construction Office of the Department of Administration, the Division of School Planning of the Department of Public Education, the Division of Facility Services of the Department of Human Resources, the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, the North Carolina League of Municipalities, the School Board Association, and the North Carolina Hospital Association shall monitor and study the separate-prime and single-prime contract systems in the bidding of public building projects and shall compile data on the total verifiable contractual, legal, and administrative cost to the public. 
The State Building Commission shall develop the necessary forms and procedures to survey the public contracts let.  The public bodies responsible for the award of contracts  shall submit all necessary records to the appropriate office, division, association, or individual as directed by the State Building Commission.  The appropriate office, division, association, or individual shall maintain records of public contracts from bodies under their supervision or bodies that are their members.
The State Building Commission shall also develop additional forms and procedures to survey State agencies regarding the definitive and quantifiable impact in terms of State administrative costs, litigation costs, change orders, project completion, and occupancy costs resulting from using the separate-prime and single-prime contract systems.
An executive summary of data shall be submitted to the State Building Commission and such data shall be compiled and analyzed in a report to be made to the 1995 Session of the General Assembly.  If the State Building Commission's analysis of the data on separate-prime and single-prime contracts indicates that it is financially beneficial to use single-prime contracting as the primary method of contracting, the State Building Commission shall recommend to the 1995 Session of the General Assembly that the State use single-prime as the primary method of contracting.  The State Building Commission shall also identify the necessary steps, including statutory changes, that are needed to increase the use of single-prime contracts."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.