Bill Text - SB26 (2013)

Authorizing state agencies to enter into audit/cost recovery contracts or shared savings agreements for wireless telecommunications services.


Revision: Jan. 17, 2013, midnight

SB 26-FN – AS INTRODUCED

2013 SESSION

13-0991

05/04

SENATE BILL 26-FN

AN ACT authorizing state agencies to enter into audit/cost recovery contracts or shared savings agreements for wireless telecommunications services.

SPONSORS: Sen. Morse, Dist 22; Sen. Rausch, Dist 19

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

ANALYSIS

This bill authorizes state agencies to enter into audit/cost recovery contracts or shared savings agreements for wireless telecommunications services.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

13-0991

05/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen

AN ACT authorizing state agencies to enter into audit/cost recovery contracts or shared savings agreements for wireless telecommunications services.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Section; Administrative Services; Audit/Cost Recovery Contracts or Shared Savings Agreements for Wireless Telecommunications Services. Amend RSA 21-I by inserting after section 21 the following new section:

21-I:21-a Audit/Cost Recovery Contracts or Shared Savings Agreements for Wireless Telecommunications Services.

I. Any state agency may enter into an audit/cost recovery contract or shared savings agreement for wireless telecommunications services pursuant to which the contractor may be awarded a portion of the savings realized or additional revenue generated as a result of the audit or shared savings agreement.

II. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary relating to the award of public contracts, any agency desiring to enter into an audit/cost recovery contract or shared savings agreement for wireless telecommunications services shall do so in accordance with usual contracting procedures and the following provisions:

(a) The agency shall issue a public request for proposals, advertised in the same manner as other programs, concerning the provision of an audit/cost recovery contract or shared savings agreement. The request for proposals shall contain terms and conditions relating to submission of proposals, evaluation and selection of proposals, financial terms, legal responsibilities, and other matters as may be required by law and as the agency determines appropriate.

(b) Upon receiving responses to the request for proposals, the agency may select the most qualified proposal or proposals on the basis of the experience and qualifications of the proposals, the technical approach, the financial arrangements, the overall benefits to the agency, and other factors determined by the agency to be relevant and appropriate.

(c) Upon the approval by the governor and council, the agency may enter into an audit/cost contract or shared savings agreement with the person or company whose proposal is selected as the most qualified based on the criteria established by the agency.

(d) The term of any audit/cost recovery contract or shared savings agreement entered into pursuant to this section shall not exceed 20 years from the date of project implementation.

(e) Any contract or shared savings agreement entered into shall contain the following annual allocation dependency clause: “The continuation of this contract is contingent upon the appropriation of funds to fulfill the requirements of the contract by the applicable funding authority. If that authority fails to appropriate sufficient funds to provide for the continuation of the contract, the contract shall terminate on the last day of the fiscal year for which allocations were made.”

(f) Contracts awarded under this section shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be performance-based contracts that identify objective outcomes and contain performance standards that will be used to measure achievement and milestones that shall be met before payment is made.

III. As used in this section, an audit/cost recovery contract or shared savings agreement means a contract under which a contractor provides methods of improving agency functions or administrative processes and the agency pays the contractor an amount equal to a portion of the savings achieved or additional revenue generated by implementation of audit recommendations.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

LBAO

13-0991

01/17/13

SB 26-FN - FISCAL NOTE

AN ACT authorizing state agencies to enter into audit/cost recovery contracts or shared savings agreements for wireless telecommunications services.

FISCAL IMPACT:

    Due to time constraints, the Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to provide a fiscal note for this bill, as introduced, at this time. When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the Senate Clerk's Office.