D.C. Mun. Regs. r. 27-1999
When used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed:
Appraisal services - services performed by an expert licensed by a state, city, county, or other governmental unit which are associated with the purchase and lease of real property relating to the determination of the value of real property.
Consultant - a firm or individual with knowledge and special abilities not generally available to an agency who renders services of a purely advisory nature relating to governmental functions or agency administration and management.
Consulting services - services of a purely advisory nature relating to governmental functions, agency administration and management, or program management which are normally provided by persons that are considered to have knowledge and expertise not generally available within the agency.
Customer - a recipient of human care services.
Expert - a person with excellent qualifications and a high degree of attainment in a professional, scientific, technical, or other field, whose knowledge and mastery of the principles, practices, problems, methods, and techniques of his or her field of activity, or of a specialized area in the field, are clearly superior to those usually possessed by ordinarily competent persons in that activity, and whose attainment is such that he or she usually is regarded as an authority or as a practitioner of unusual competence and skill by other persons in the profession, occupation, or activity.
Human care services - education or special education, health, human, or social services, to be provided directly to individuals who are disabled, disadvantaged, displaced, elderly, indigent, mentally ill, physically ill, unemployed, or minors in the custody of the District of Columbia.
Pre-qualification - the process by which the contracting officer determines whether a prospective service provider under a human care agreement is responsible.
Voucher - a written authorization, to a service provider who has been awarded a human care agreement, to provide the services authorized in the agreement and described in the voucher directly to a customer identified in writing.
D.C. Mun. Regs. r. 27-1999