Sec. 2-71q. Procedures for selection of design professional services or construction manager.
Sec. 2-71q. Procedures for selection of design professional services or construction manager. Whenever a design professional or design professional services or
a construction manager are required by the Joint Committee on Legislative Management
for any purpose other than in fulfilling its obligation under section 4b-60, the following
procedures shall be followed:
(1) The committee shall invite responses from design professionals or construction
managers by advertisements inserted at least once in one or more newspapers having a
general circulation in the state. The responses received shall be considered by the committee which shall select from among those responding the five professionals or managers which in its opinion are most qualified to perform the required design professional
or management services.
(2) The committee may negotiate a contract with the most qualified design professional or construction manager on the list, in its judgment, at compensation which it
determines is both fair and reasonable. If the committee is unable to conclude a contract
with any of the design professionals or construction managers selected, it shall issue a
finding giving the reasons for such inability and may negotiate with any design professional or construction manager which it determines to be most qualified to perform
the services at fair and reasonable compensation. In determining fair and reasonable
compensation, the committee shall consider, in the following order of importance, the
professional competence of the design professional or construction manager, the technical merits of the proposal, the ability of the firm to perform the required services within
the time and budgetary limits of the contract and the price for which the services are to
be rendered.
(3) As used in this section, "design professional" means any architect, professional
engineer, landscape architect, land surveyor or interior designer who is registered to
practice his profession in accordance with the applicable provisions of the general statutes; and "design professional services" means those professional services rendered
by architects, professional engineers, landscape architects, land surveyors or interior
designers, as well as incidental services that members of such professions and those in
their employ are authorized to perform.
(P.A. 84-48, S. 7, 17; P.A. 98-235, S. 7.)
History: P.A. 98-235 redefined "design professional" to include interior designers and redefined "design professional
services" to include services rendered by interior designers.