September LMS Delves into APDM Contracts

By Rebekah Morris for AZBEX  On Wednesday, September 30th, 2020, more than 100 people logged on to the most recent Leading Market Series (LMS) event presented by BEX, which explored the topic of Alternative Project Delivery Methods (APDM) contract usage by public owners. Since 2000, HB2340 enabled the usage of APDM, including Design–Build, Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) and Job Order Contract (JOC). Given these new tools […]

Is Lack of Oversight at Alhambra Leading to Wasteful Contracts?

By Rebekah Morris for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Inefficient contracts… Lack of oversight and documentation… Resistance to market trends… These are a few of the issues plaguing one of the poorest public school districts in a state that Governing.com has ranked 49th in per pupil funding as recently as June 2018. Forty-five million dollars in bond […]

K12 Procurement Changes Coming Courtesy of SUSD

By Rebekah Morris for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Last month the Red for Ed budget bill caught the local building industry completely off-guard when it included a last-minute amendment that has far-reaching impacts on public K12 procurements. (AZBEX, May 8th) This week I had the opportunity to sit down with the Speaker of the Arizona House […]

K12 Procurement Law Change Sends Shocks

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Legislation signed by Governor Doug Ducey last week ended a statewide teacher walkout, increased teacher pay and promised increased funding for K12 education in Arizona. It also sent A/E/C professionals around the state into a tizzy because of one section that has, to date, received little to no […]