HOUSE BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL 186

50th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2011

AN ACT

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT; REQUIRING EVALUATORS TO SIGN AND RETAIN BID AND PROPOSAL SCORING DOCUMENTS AS PUBLIC RECORDS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. A new section of Chapter 13 NMSA 1978 is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] SCORING DOCUMENTS--SIGNATURES--PUBLIC RECORD.--

          A. A document used to score a bid or proposal for contracts over fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) issued pursuant to the Procurement Code or any other public works project shall be signed by the individual evaluators on the selection committee and retained for the length of the contract.

          B. The scoring documents shall be maintained as a public record subject to the Inspection of Public Records Act."