Section 1680-05-04-.11 - CRITERIA FOR PROVIDING A STIPEND(1) At the discretion of the Department, a stipend may be paid to the eligible design-builders who submit responsive but unsuccessful proposals in response to the RFP. The decision to do so shall be based on the Department's analysis of the estimated proposal development costs, the complexity of the project, and the anticipated degree of competition during the procurement process. The purpose of a stipend is to encourage competition by offering to compensate responsive but unsuccessful design-builders for a portion of the estimated proposal development costs.(2) The terms and conditions for stipends shall be included in the RFP.(3) If a stipend is provided to an unsuccessful design-builder, the work produced within that design-builder's proposal for the project shall be provided to the Department for its use in connection with the contract awarded for the project, or in connection with a subsequent procurement, without obligation to pay any additional compensation to the unsuccessful design-builder.(4) Design-builders submitting a response to the RFQ who are considered non-responsive or unqualified, or who are not short-listed by the Design-Build Review Committee, will not be eligible for a stipend.Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1680-05-04-.11
Original rule filed April 16, 2008; effective June 30, 2008.Authority: T.C.A. §§ 54-1-119 and 4-3-2303.