2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 39.10.117: Public hospital district project review board — Established — Procedures. (Effective until July 1, 2007.)

(1) The public hospital district project review board is established to review public hospital district proposals submitted by public hospital districts to use alternative public works contracting procedures. The board shall select and approve qualified projects based upon an evaluation of the information submitted by the public hospital district under subsection (2) of this section. Any appointments for full terms or to fill a vacancy shall be made by the governor and shall include the following representatives, each having experience with public works or commercial construction: One representative from the department of health; one representative from the office of financial management; two representatives from the construction industry, one of whom works for a construction company with gross annual revenues of twenty million dollars or less; one representative from the specialty contracting industry; one representative from organized labor; one representative from the design industry; one representative from a public body previously authorized under this chapter to use an alternative public works contracting procedure who has experience using such alternative contracting procedures; one representative from public hospital districts with total revenues greater than fifteen million dollars per year; and one representative from public hospital districts with total revenues equal to or less than fifteen million dollars per year. Each member shall be appointed for a term of three years, with the first three-year term commencing after July 27, 2003. Any member of the public hospital district project review board who is directly affiliated with any applicant before the board must recuse him [himself] or herself from consideration of the application.

     (2) A public hospital district seeking to use alternative contracting procedures authorized under this chapter pursuant to RCW 39.10.068 shall file an application with the public hospital district project review board. The application form shall require the district to submit a detailed statement of the proposed project, including the public hospital district's name; the current projected total budget for the project, including the estimated construction costs, costs for professional services, equipment and furnishing costs, off-site costs, contract administration costs, and other related project costs; the anticipated project design and construction schedule; a summary of the public hospital district's construction activity for the preceding six years; and an explanation of why the public hospital district believes the use of an alternative contracting procedure is in the public interest and why the public hospital district is qualified to use an alternative contracting procedure, including a summary of the relevant experience of the public hospital district's management team. The applicant shall also provide in a timely manner any other information concerning implementation of projects under this chapter requested by the public hospital district project review board to assist in its consideration.

     (3) Any public hospital district whose application is approved by the public hospital district project review board shall comply with the public notification and review requirements in RCW 39.10.030.

     (4) Any public hospital district whose application is approved by the public hospital district project review board shall not use as an evaluation factor whether a contractor submitting a bid for the approved project has had prior general contractor/construction manager procedure experience.

[2003 c 300 § 7.]