In awarding contracts and leasing spaces, the Port of Portland may establish best value standards and criteria, taking into account factors that include:

1. (1) Experience, technical capability and past performance.
2. (2) The qualifications, compensation and retention policies of bidding contractors and lessees with respect to the staff and subcontractors operating at the port.
3. (3) Potential local and regional benefit within the port, the surrounding community, the region and the state.

[2013 c.689 §3]