Full Text of HR0077 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Illinois is home to nearly 23,000 thousand | 3 | | licensed engineers and surveyors and hundreds of companies | 4 | | that employ them, and Illinoisans rely on these licensed | 5 | | professionals to protect the public health, life, and safety; | 6 | | and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Engineers serve as the backbone of our public | 8 | | infrastructure, protecting our drinking water and ensuring | 9 | | that our buildings are safe and our roadways and bridges are | 10 | | secure; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Illinois has set it to be the law of the land to | 12 | | utilize qualifications first when determining which | 13 | | professionals and firms should provide these critical services | 14 | | to our citizens; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, The Qualifications-Based Selection process | 16 | | outperforms the national performance in cost growth (3% growth | 17 | | versus 6% growth) and in schedule growth (7% growth versus 10% | 18 | | growth); based on the analysis of the projects in a recent | 19 | | study, there is a strong association between the use of | 20 | | Qualifications-Based Selection and the quality of construction | 21 | | documents developed by the design team and the final cost and | 22 | | schedule performance; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, While there are specific value-added benefits | 2 | | from the application of Qualifications-Based Selection | 3 | | procurement methods to all projects, the advantage, in | 4 | | addition to cost and schedule savings, is particularly evident | 5 | | for complex projects; these are projects that can especially | 6 | | benefit from experienced and stable design teams comprised of | 7 | | high-quality providers; complexity can emerge from numerous | 8 | | points in a project, including community engagement, political | 9 | | or social sensitivities, technical challenges in design or in | 10 | | constructions, or management and collaboration of project | 11 | | participants; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, From the agency-client perspective, | 13 | | Qualifications-Based Selection projects achieve a greater | 14 | | degree of consistency in terms of project success than | 15 | | non-Qualifications-Based Selection projects; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Qualifications-Based Selection leads to increased | 17 | | innovation on projects; innovation is a cornerstone of | 18 | | advancing project solutions and developing better solutions | 19 | | for clients; innovation can occur on projects of any size or in | 20 | | any sector; a recent study found that projects incorporating | 21 | | Qualifications-Based Selection have a greater likelihood of | 22 | | producing innovative solutions; this is often based on firms | 23 | | having greater opportunities to explore innovations and |
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| 1 | | collaborations when cost is not the driving factor in design | 2 | | team selection; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, the | 4 | | Illinois Department of Transportation, the Capital Development | 5 | | Board, and hundreds of county and municipal governments all | 6 | | utilize Qualifications-Based Selection to ensure the highest | 7 | | quality of design and construction and to deliver their | 8 | | programs on-time and on-budget; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Qualifications-Based Selection is proven to | 10 | | develop more diverse engineering teams and provide greater | 11 | | opportunity to diverse companies; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, It is the policy of the State of Illinois to | 13 | | maintain the integrity of these essential professions; | 14 | | therefore, be it
| 15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 16 | | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 17 | | we hereby re-affirm the long-standing policy of the State of | 18 | | Illinois to rely on qualifications first when determining | 19 | | which professionals and firms provide these critical services | 20 | | to our citizens.
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