338.1695 - Ranking of applicants based on final proposals and interviews; negotiations with certain applicants for contract for preconstruction services; availability to applicants and public of certa
338.1695 Ranking of applicants based on final proposals and interviews; negotiations with certain applicants for contract for preconstruction services; availability to applicants and public of certain information. [Effective July 1, 2011.]
1. The panel appointed by the public body pursuant to NRS 338.1693 shall evaluate and assign a score to each of the final proposals received by the public body based on the factors and relative weight assigned to each factor that the public body specified in the request for final proposals. The panel shall interview the two or three applicants whose final proposals received the highest scores. After conducting such interviews, the panel shall rank the applicants based on the final proposals and interviews, which must be given equal weight.
2. Upon receipt of the final rankings of the applicants from the panel, the public body shall enter into negotiations with the most qualified applicant determined pursuant to subsection 1 for a contract for preconstruction services. If the public body is unable to negotiate a contract with the most qualified applicant at an amount of compensation that the public body and the most qualified applicant determine to be fair and reasonable, the public body shall terminate negotiations with that applicant. The public body may then undertake negotiations with the next most qualified applicant in sequence until an agreement is reached or a determination is made by the public body to reject all applicants.
3. The public body shall make available to the applicants and the public the results of the evaluations of final proposals and interviews conducted pursuant to subsection 1 and the final rankings of the applicants.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 2893; A 2009, 440, effective July 1, 2011)