Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1603 – Limitations on consultants competing for contracts
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1603
- Agency: as used in this Chapter shall have the same meaning ascribed to it as provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
- Data: means recorded information, regardless of form or characteristic. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
- Person: means any business, individual, union, committee, club, or other organization or group of individuals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
- Procurement: means the buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise obtaining any supplies, services, or major repairs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
- Services: means the furnishing of labor, time, or effort by a contractor whose primary purpose is to perform an identifiable task rather than to furnish an end item of supply. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
- Specification: means any description of the physical or functional characteristics, or of the nature of a supply, service, or major repair. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
A. Any person contracting with an agency for the purposes of developing bidding documents, requests for proposals, or any other type of solicitation related to a specific procurement shall be prohibited from bidding, proposing, or otherwise competing for award of that procurement. Such persons shall further be prohibited from participating as subcontractors related to the award of that procurement.
B. For the purposes of this Section, the following activities shall not be considered “developing bidding documents, requests for proposals, or any other type of solicitation”:
(1) Architectural and engineering programming.
(2) Master planning.
(3) Budgeting.
(4) Feasibility analysis.
(5) Constructability review.
(6) Furnishing specification data or other product information.
(7) Any other services that do not establish selection qualifications or evaluation criteria for the procurement of an architect or engineer.
Acts 2008, No. 598, §2, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2009, No. 433, §2; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
NOTE: Redesignated in part and amended by Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.