CONTRACTING
WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Conference in Detail
Thursday • August 12, 2004

8:00	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30	Introduction and Overview	Richard W. Oehler, Esq. Program Co-Chair Perkins Coie Seattle, WA Hugh D. Spitzer, Esq. Program Co-Chair Foster Pepper & Shefelman PLLC Seattle, WA David O. Thompson, Esq. Program Co-Chair Preston Gates & Ellis, LLP Seattle, WA
8:45	The Latest Developments in the Traditional Public Bid Process and Public Works Contracting
	• Overview - developments in prevailing wages; how to disqualify truly unqualified potential bidders	Rodney Eng, Esq. Director of Contracts Seattle City Attorney’s Office Seattle, WA
	• Contracting with and managing your design professionals	Greg Guedel, Esq. Foster Pepper & Shefelman PLLC Seattle, WA
	• Update on recent legislation and/or cases	Deborah L. Cade, Esq. Assistant Attorney General Washington State Office of the Attorney General Olympia, WA
10:15	Break
10:30	Alternative Public Bid Procedures Under RCW 39.10: Design-Build and GCCM
	• Process overview and discussion of recent examples; practical problems and how to overcome them; RFP structure and content; negotiations with private sector participants	Hugh D. Spitzer, Esq. Program Co-Chair
	• GCCM—General Contractor Construction Management	Ken Johnsen Principal Shiels Obletz Johnsen Seattle, WA
	• The Design-Build process	Erin Fletcher Project Engineering and Construction Coordinator Seattle Monorail Project Seattle, WA
12:00	Lunch (on your own)
1:15	Public-Private Partnerships: Alternatives that Substantially Shift Risk and Returns to Private Sector Developer-Builder Teams The pros and cons of financing leases, lease-leaseback transactions, “63-20s,” and build-to-lease both on an operating lease and financing lease basis	David O. Thompson, Esq. Program Co-Chair Thomas Kuffel, Esq. Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office Seattle, WA Richard C. Yarmuth, Esq. Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo PLLC Seattle, WA
3:00	Break
3:15	Procurement of Goods and Services
	• Procurement of goods including information technology acquisition; intergovernmental purchase “piggybacking”	Richard W. Oehler, Esq. Program Co-Chair
	• Special issues and considerations in contracting for services	James F. Nagle, Esq. Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker LLP Seattle, WA
4:45	Adjourn

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