Haw. Rev. Stat. § 103D-311: Prequalification of suppliers.

(a) The policy board may adopt rules to prequalify prospective suppliers for particular types of goods, services, and construction or to limit a solicitation to prequalified vendors to meet statutory or licensing requirements applying to the solicitation or when the time necessary to verify vendor qualifications would jeopardize timely award of contracts.

(b) A prospective supplier may be prequalified for a particular type of goods or services. Solicitation mailing lists of potential contractors shall include, but shall not be limited to, prequalified suppliers.