AR HB1702

State Highway Commission may establish written procedures for procuring qualifications-based design-build services and administering design-build project contracts

Commission may receive solicited and unsolicited proposals for design-build construction projects and award contracts based on greatest value to the state

Commission may contract with design-builders to acquire, design, construct, finance, improve, maintain, and operate an unlimited number of qualified design-build projects when state highway revenues are not required to fund any portion of project costs

Commission may contract with design-builders for up to two qualified design-build projects within ten years of July 1, 2013, pursuant to Amendment 91 to the Arkansas Constitution, when state highway revenues are required to fund project costs

Each of the two individual contracts involving state highway revenues must exceed $50,000,000 in project costs to qualify as design-build projects