(a) The chief procurement officer may coordinate the implementation of this part with any similar programs offered by the department of business, economic development, and tourism or any other governmental body.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-903

  • Business: means any corporation, partnership, individual, sole proprietorship, joint stock company, joint venture, or any other private legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Governmental body: means any department, commission, council, board, bureau, authority, committee, institution, legislative body, agency, government corporation, or other establishment or office of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the State, including the office of Hawaiian affairs, and the several counties of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Procurement: means buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise acquiring any good, service, or construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Procurement officer: means any person authorized to enter into and administer contracts and make written determinations with respect thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Small business: means a business that is independently owned and defined by detailed criteria pursuant to rules adopted by the policy board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-901
(b) The chief procurement officer may provide staff to provide service to designated state agencies to assist small businesses in learning how to do business with the State.
(c) In carrying out this part, the chief procurement officer may:

(1) Give special publicity to procurement procedures and issue special publications designed to assist small businesses in learning how to do business with the State;
(2) Compile, maintain, and make available source lists of small businesses for the purpose of encouraging procurement from small business;
(3) Include small businesses on solicitation mailing lists;
(4) Develop and conduct training programs to assist small businesses;
(5) Reduce the level or change the types of bonding normally required or accept alternative forms of security;
(6) Make special provisions for progress payments;
(7) Establish the goal that twenty per cent of the State’s annual purchasing expenditure be awarded to small business; and
(8) Impose mandatory evaluation criteria designed to encourage the use of small business as subcontractors on large contracts not susceptible to performance by small business.
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