Excluded from the requirement of procurement through the state purchasing agent but not from the requirements of the Procurement Code are the following:

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A. procurement of professional services;

B. small purchases having a value not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500);

C. emergency procurement;

D. procurement of highway construction or reconstruction by the department of transportation;

E. procurement by the judicial branch of state government;

F. procurement by the legislative branch of state government;

G. procurement by the boards of regents of state educational institutions named in Article 12, § 11 of the constitution of New Mexico;

H. procurement by the state fair commission of tangible personal property, services and construction under twenty thousand dollars ($20,000);

I. purchases of instructional materials;

J. procurement by all local public bodies;

K. procurement by regional education cooperatives; L. procurement by charter schools;

M. procurement by each state health care institution that provides direct patient care and that is, or a part of which is, medicaid certified and participating in the New Mexico medicaid program; and

N. procurement by the public school facilities authority.