La. Admin. Code tit. 4 § V-5105

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 8, August 20, 2024

Section V-5105 - Procedures

A. Professional Services. An agency head may present a request to the state chief procurement officer to classify an independent contractor who has a professed knowledge of a department of learning or science used by its practical application to the affairs of others or in the practice of an art founded on it, as a professional in addition to those professions listed in R.S. 39:1556(42). Upon a showing that the profession advocated is a vocation founded upon prolonged and specialized intellectual training which enables particular service to be rendered, and that such professed attainments in special knowledge are distinguishable from mere skill, the state chief procurement officer may define, classify and add the profession to a table of professions which are exempt from competitive solicitation.

B. Social Services

1. An agency head may present a request to the state chief procurement officer to enumerate additional services other than those enumerated in R.S. 39:1619 which shall qualify as social services under the following categories:

a. rehabilitation and health support services;

b. habilitation and socialization services;

c. protection for adults and children services;

d. improvement of living conditions and health services; and

e. evaluation, testing, and remedial educational services (for exceptional nonpublic school students with disabilities).

2. Upon a showing that an additional service is needed, is properly within the scope of an agencys mission to provide, and is substantially similar, comparable or a logical extension of an enumerated service, the state chief procurement officer may define, classify and add the service to the appropriate category of services enumerated under R.S. 39:1619.

La. Admin. Code tit. 4, § V-5105

Promulgated by the Office of the Governor, Division of Administration, Office of State Procurement, 41:2762 (December 2015), amended LR 43:1109 (June 2017).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 39:1561, R.S. 39:1556(42), and R.S. 39:1619.