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 […]

PHX Announces RFQ Process Changes

By Tasha Anderson for Arizona Builder’s Exchange The City of Phoenix is in the process of implementing some new changes to their construction procurement request for qualifications scoring process, in order to “provide the best transparency possible to the public and the industry.” One of the biggest changes, as presented by Kandi Kawolsky, design and […]

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 […]