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Design, Construction & Compliance
Contractor Pre-qualification Information - General Information
Any Contractor wishing to bid work for the State of Kansas as a prime bidder needs
to become pre-qualified.
- Applicants must fill out the Contractor Pre-qualification Application.
- Check either "New Application" or "Renewal Application" at the top of the form by double clicking on the check box and selecting "Checked"
- After a screening process and submission of all required attachments companies are
notified of their approval via a letter.
- If a company takes more than 60 days to provide all the requried information, their applications
are removed and the company must start the process over.
- Contractors are evaluated after each project by the Architect/Engineer, Agency Rep
and DFM (if applicable)
- Evaluations are logged into the system and the contractor is given a “score” for
each evaluation and an overall score to determine eligibility for bidding. Individual
questions’ scores are multiplied by a weight factor based upon the priority of the
question. The overall score is then divided by the number of questions answered
to determine the average score.
- If a score is below 2.82, the contractors are put on probation until their next completed
project.
- (See FAQ “What
happens if a contractor doesn’t meet the minimum requirements?”)
- 2.85 is the minimum competence level for a company to qualify. If all 17 questions
on the evaluation are answered with a 2.0 (C), the average score is equal to 2.82.
- Once on probation, a company must complete one project before his status is reviewed
and adjusted to meet the recent performance based upon evaluations.
- If the project was successful based upon the evaluations, the company is taken off
probation and the company status approved.
- If the project was unsuccessful based upon the evaluations the contractor disqualified
for a period of 6 months at which time the company may not bid on any State of Kansas
work.
- After the 6-month period is completed the contractor is again on probation for a second
time and will follow the requirements noted above.
- If a contractor's average score for the second probation project is below the average,
he is then disqualified to bid for a period of 3 years.
- At the end of that three-year debarment the contractor must resubmit his Statement
of Qualifications and provide references as requested. He will begin the next period on
probation.
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