HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	140
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

REQUESTING THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO CONDUCT A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF EACH OF THE INDIVIDUAL PROCUREMENT JURISDICTIONs.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, Hawaii's decentralized State procurement system consists of the Chief Procurement Officer who oversees twenty-one procurement jurisdictions; and

 

     WHEREAS, each of the twenty-one procurement jurisdictions are under the direction of individual chief procurement officers and administers all contracts with city, state, and federal governments throughout the State; and

 

     WHEREAS, each individual procurement jurisdiction has numerous assigned employees with different job titles and experience; and

 

     WHEREAS, each individual procurement jurisdiction has a variety of contracts to award and monitor with different degrees of detail and associated tasks; and

 

     WHEREAS, each individual procurement jurisdiction may not be adequately staffed to meet the mandates of the contract award and contract monitoring requirements; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2015, that the Chief Procurement Officer is requested to conduct a comprehensive study of each of the individual procurement jurisdictions including, but not limited to, the following areas:

 

     (1)  A breakout of each procurement jurisdiction to identify activities of each division within a large State department;

 

     (2)  The current number of staffed positions and job titles within each procurement jurisdiction;

 

     (3)  The identification of vacant positions within each procurement jurisdiction and status of recruitment;

 

     (4)  The current number of contracts assigned to each procurement office;

 

     (5)  The current level of contract oversight required during the entire procurement process, such as quality monitoring for compliance versus simple bundling and processing of documents with quality compliance oversight assigned to other sections within the applicable State department; and

 

     (6)  The staffing recommendations needed to bring each procurement jurisdiction up to satisfactory performance levels; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Procurement Officer submit findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2016; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Governor and the Chief Procurement Officer.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Comprehensive review of the State Procurement process