The Kansas Qualifications Based Selection Award was established to recognize outstanding contributions to and support for obtaining the highest level of quality and the greatest public good through the procurement of architectural, engineering, surveying, mapping, and landscape architecture services. Any public, private, or other individual or group who meets the selection criteria can be nominated by a Kansas Consulting Engineers member firm. Nominations are to be submitted to the Kansas Consulting Engineers Board of Directors. Nominees should have made a significant contribution to promoting the highest quality of services consistent with the requirements of the public in Kansas. The contribution, whether in the form of legislation, policy and regulation, public affairs, advocacy programs, publications, or by example, must embody the commitment to obtaining the h ighest level of quality and the g reatest public good through extended support and promotion of Qualifications Based Selection in the procurement of architectural and engineering services.
Nominees mandated by law to use qualifications based selection are eligible.
The 1999 QBS Award winner was announced at the city commission meeting on July 27, 1999. Maurice Bowersox, P.E., announced that the winner was the city of Pittsburg . Pittsburg follows the QBS process by establishing evaluation criteria and then soliciting statements of qualifications from interested design firms. These firms are reviewed for references, previous jobs, and facilities. Potential firms are interviewed and then ranked.