Kan. Stat. § 75-3784
The secretary of administration or state agency is hereby authorized to contract for ancillary technical services for any project for the construction of a building or for repairs or improvements to a building for a state agency which are not provided by any firm or state agency providing architectural services or engineering services for the project. Such ancillary technical services shall include but not be limited to geology services and other soil or subsurface investigation and testing services, surveying, adjusting and balancing of air conditioning, ventilating, heating and other mechanical building systems, testing and consultant services. Such contract shall not be subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 75-3739, and amendments thereto, or to the provisions of the acts contained in articles 54 or 58 of chapter 75 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated. Expenditures for such ancillary technical services shall be made from funds appropriated for the project or available therefor.
K.S.A. 75-3784