News from the Bidder Responsibility Task Force

CPARB's task force on developing bidder responsibility guidelines for public agencies met on Tuesday morning to review the second draft of the document. There was general consensus about the content of the guidelines with a few relatively minor changes. There was discussion about including in the subcontractor responsibility contract language a provision that the contractor would be required to submit documentation of verification of subcontractor responsibility to the owner upon the owner's request. Members of the task force expressed an interest in talking with others before including this provision.

The appendices still need to be developed further (list of suggested supplemental criteria, examples of actual criteria used by various agencies, resource contact list, and Powerpoint slides of training on bidder responsibility that I did in June).

CPARB's Industry-Wide Subcommittee (to which the task force reports) canceled their August 3rd meeting due to the lack of a quorum. Hopefully, another meeting of the subcommittee will be held on August 6th so that the subcommittee can report back to CPARB at its August 9th meeting.