(a) The County Administrator or his designee shall have the discretion to use construction management services, design build services, or turnkey management services as alternatives for construction contracting administration. In exercising such discretion, the County Administrator or his designee shall consider the method which in the Administrator or his designee’s discretion is the most advantageous to the County and will result in the most timely, economical, and successful completion of the construction project. The determination of the method of source selection utilized shall be stated in writing and included as part of the contract file. As a part of this determination, the County Administrator shall determine if the County should prepare the request for proposals for providing such method of construction contracting administration or if the County should retain outside consulting services to prepare such requests for proposals.
(b) If the County Administrator or his designee determines that the use of construction management services, design build services or turnkey management services is the most advantageous means of securing the construction contracting administration set forth in § 7-508(a), and the amount of services to be secured thereby is anticipated to exceed $5 million, the selection of the method of construction contracting administration used by the County and set forth in § 7-508(a) shall be submitted for review to the Committee of the Whole of County Council. Within 15 days after notice of such review, an interested party shall submit to the Committee of the Whole written comments which set forth the position of the party with respect to the decision as to which construction contracting method to use. At the next meeting of the Committee, which shall not occur until after at least 15 days following notice of such review, those who submitted comments may address the Committee. Following the meeting of the Committee of the Whole, if County Council does not reject the selection of this method, the construction contracting administration shall be secured in the manner set forth in § 7-508.
(c) If the method of construction contracting administration is determined under this Section, the Chairman of County Council shall select an independent monitor from an agency of Government who does not report directly or indirectly to the County Administrator to observe the source selection process to determine if the process was fair, open and competitive at the time of source selection. The monitor shall give a written report to the Chairman which sets forth those findings.
(d) If the competitive sealed proposal method of construction contracting administration is determined to be the most advantageous to the County, the County shall use such method set forth in § 7-307 for the purposes of procuring construction management services, design build services, or turnkey management services or any other similar type of construction management contract. The request for proposals for any of these services shall set forth the criteria which the County will be using to select the successful proposal. (Ordinance 3346).
(Ord. 3704, passed 6-17-2003)