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91_HB0274
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1 AN ACT to amend the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
2 District Act by changing Section 11.4.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
6 Act is amended by changing Section 11.4 as follows:
7 (70 ILCS 2605/11.4) (from Ch. 42, par. 331.4)
8 Sec. 11.4. Contracts which by their nature are not
9 adapted to award by competitive bidding, such as, but not
10 only, contracts for the services of individuals possessing a
11 high degree of professional skill where the ability or
12 fitness of the individual plays an important part, contracts
13 for the purchase or sale of utilities and contracts for
14 materials economically procurable only from a single source
15 of supply, and leases of real property where the sanitary
16 district is the lessee, and contracts that combine design and
17 construction shall not be subject to the competitive bidding
18 requirements of this Act. The sanitary district is expressly
19 authorized to procure from any federal, state or local
20 governmental unit or agency such surplus materials, as may be
21 made available without conforming to the competitive bidding
22 requirements of this Act. Regular employment contracts,
23 whether classified in civil service or not, shall not be
24 subject to the competitive bidding requirements of this Act.
25 Contracts that combine design and construction, if not
26 competitively bid, shall be let according to a formal
27 selection process established by rule. That selection
28 process shall: (i) require a published request for proposals
29 (RFP); (ii) require consideration of price, but may not
30 require that price be the sole consideration; and (iii)
31 provide that the final selection process may include
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1 negotiation.
2 (Source: Laws 1963, p. 2498.)