Chapter 7C - CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE

Section 7C:1 - Definitions for this chapter and chapter 29
Section 7C:2 - Commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance; appointment; duties and responsibilities; staff
Section 7C:3 - Coordination of capital facility project programs and plans
Section 7C:4 - Jurisdiction over capital facility projects
Section 7C:5 - Control and supervision of building projects undertaken by state agencies; delegation of project control and supervision to agency or building authority
Section 7C:6 - Affirmative marketing program; participation goals for minority-owned and women-owned businesses
Section 7C:7 - Responsibility for acquisition, control and disposition of court facilities; director of court facilities
Section 7C:8 - Duties of commissioner relating to proper management of operation of division of capital asset management and maintenance and coordination of offices; uniform contract conditions; administrative units; performance measures; audits
Section 7C:9 - Comprehensive reports on progress of capital facility projects; analysis of real property acquired for use of state agencies; reporting of projects completed, in process or scheduled; proposed capital repair and maintenance plan for state buildings
Section 7C:10 - Advisory council on capital asset management and maintenance
Section 7C:11 - Office of programming; director of programming
Section 7C:12 - Director of programming; duties and responsibilities; staff
Section 7C:13 - Office of project management; director of project management
Section 7C:14 - Director of project management; duties and responsibilities; staff
Section 7C:15 - Submission of building project plans and specifications to director of project management for approval; advertisement for applications for bids
Section 7C:16 - Project managers
Section 7C:17 - Change orders or contract modifications
Section 7C:18 - Request for change orders; approval; disapproval; appeal
Section 7C:19 - Equitable adjustment in contract price due to change order
Section 7C:20 - Contractor to submit cost and pricing data for use in negotiating adjustments for change orders; cost estimators
Section 7C:21 - General priniciples applicable to equitable adjustments to contract
Section 7C:22 - Resident engineers; cost estimators; project managers
Section 7C:23 - Federal funds or assistance for financing cost of plans and specifications
Section 7C:24 - Office of facilities management; director of facilities management; inventory of buildings
Section 7C:25 - Control of project supervision by director of facilities management
Section 7C:26 - Standards and guidelines applicable to maintenance and repair; compliance inspections; transfer of supervision and control over maintenance of repair operations from state agency or building authority to office of facilities management or commissioner
Section 7C:27 - Building projects performed at using agencies and controlled and supervised by office of facilities management
Section 7C:28 - Duties and responsibilities of director of facilities management
Section 7C:29 - Criteria for minimizing life-cycle costs of facilities by utilizing energy efficiency, water conservation or renewable energy technologies; life-cycle cost analysis
Section 7C:30 - [Effective Until 2/18/2025] Evaluation of energy consumption
Section 7C:30 - [Effective 2/18/2025] Evaluation of energy consumption
Section 7C:31 - Evaluation of potential for increasing energy efficiency
Section 7C:32 - Real property deemed to be real property of commonwealth; exercise of eminent domain by commonwealth on behalf of state agency; delegation to state agency of power to acquire, control and dispose of real property
Section 7C:33 - Commissioner's responsibility for acquisition, control and disposition of real property
Section 7C:34 - Procedure for disposal of real property by sale, rental or otherwise
Section 7C:35 - Rental of premises outside state house or other buildings owned by commonwealth
Section 7C:35A - Termination of lease for nonappropriation or nonallotment in case of insufficient funds; renegotiation of existing lease
Section 7C:36 - Advertisement of need for or availability of real property for use of state agencies
Section 7C:37 - Notification of purchase, sale, rental, lease, transfer, or significant change in use of real property; hearing
Section 7C:38 - Disclosure statement to be filed by lessor, lessee, seller or purchaser or duly authorized officer of corporation for rental or sale or purcase of real property to or from public agency
Section 7C:39 - Comprehensive inventory of real property owned, rented or occupied by public agencies; publication and distribution; central depository of records
Section 7C:40 - Establishment of rules and regulations for acquisition, utlization and disposition of real property
Section 7C:41 - Unauthorized occupation or expenditure for maintenance of real property prohibited; penalties
Section 7C:42 - Report of negotiated leases or agreements providing for tenancy at will or other rental space
Section 7C:43 - Procedure upon notice of site evaluation to determine presence of skeletal remains of American Indians; designation of representative to be present when site evaluation made
Section 7C:44 - Purpose of Secs. 44 to 58 relating to procurement and quality of design services; definitions
Section 7C:45 - Designer selection board
Section 7C:46 - Jurisdiction of designer selection board; exemptions
Section 7C:47 - Public notice requirements for contracts for design services
Section 7C:48 - Written application and disclosure statements required for designers, programmers or construction managers filling application for project; designer application form
Section 7C:49 - Selection of semifinalists and finalists; applicant selection criteria; disqualification of board member from participation in selection of designer
Section 7C:50 - Selection of finalists and semifinalists when fee set or negotiated; criteria for selection; statement of fee in contract; withholding fees
Section 7C:51 - Applicants' list of consultants; truth-in-negotiations certificate; special conditions or requirements; contract specifications; requirement of professional liability insurance; disqualification for provoding false statements or information; continuation of design work by designer conducting feasibility study
Section 7C:52 - Appointment of designer or interior designer to perform continued or extended services
Section 7C:53 - Expedited procedures upon declaration of emergency situations
Section 7C:54 - Adoption of selection procedure prior to award of contract for design services
Section 7C:55 - Record keeping requirements for board and agencies not subject to board jurisdiction
Section 7C:56 - Annual report by board listing all finalists and awards
Section 7C:57 - Adoption of procedures and regulations to implement Secs. 7C:44 to 58
Section 7C:58 - Procurement of architectural, engineering and related services; statement of qualifications and performance; notice of project; definitions
Section 7C:59 - Completion of study or program required prior to contract for design or construction services
Section 7C:60 - Design of capital facility projects; certification that design work comports with appropriation, authorization or project cost limits and any study or program
Section 7C:61 - Construction of capital facility projects; certification that construction work can be accomplished within appropriation or authorization for project and comports with program or study
Section 7C:62 - Contigencies accounts or funds
Section 7C:63 - Capital facility planning fund
Section 7C:64 - Long-range capital facilities development plans
Section 7C:65 - Content of long-range capital facilities development plans
Section 7C:66 - Capital facility budget requests; public notice of proposed long-range development plan and annual capital facility budget; required contents and format
Section 7C:67 - Submission of proposed plans and requests; reporting by executive offices and by directors of programming, project management or facilities management
Section 7C:68 - Study and review of long-range capital facility development plans and budget requests by commissioner and governor; recommendations for study or program and mode of procurement; required statements to be included in budget request
Section 7C:69 - Design and construction contingency reserve account
Section 7C:70 - Emergency repair reserve account
Section 7C:71 - Commissioner to study requests and recommendations for appropriations or authorizations for expenditures with reference to current long-range capital facility development plans and effects upon policies, programs and priorities; review by commissioner of petition, motion or amendment introduced by general court relating to capital facility projects
Section 7C:72 - Commissioner's annual report to governor and general court
Section 7C:73 - [Effective 2/18/2025] [Repealed Effective 8/4/2027] Embodied carbon intergovernmental coordinating council