Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 7 - MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Division 10 - Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission
Chapter 10 - Contractor Performance Rating to Determine Responsibility
Section 7 CSR 10-10.020 - Explanation of Contractor Performance Rating System

(1) The commission has the obligation to award its contracts to only responsive and responsible bidders. The commission also has the duty to supervise and control the construction and maintenance of its state highway system. Inherent in these concepts, and in the commission's general obligation to the traveling public of this state, is that the commission must regulate those who construct the finished highway product. Therefore, it requires a system for evaluating the performance of those contractors working on commission projects.

(2) This contractor rating system is intended to help the commission periodically determine those contractors who are responsible or are nonresponsible and those responsible contractors whose outstanding or superior performance merits recognition by the commission. In the process, the rating system is intended to provide the contractors with evaluations of their work and information they can use to improve their performance.

(3) These regulations also set forth the procedures governing how contractors who render unsatisfactory performance may be determined nonresponsible and ineligible to bid for work on commission projects and how nonresponsible contractors may be reinstated as responsible bidders or responsible contractors.