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CT Gen Stat § 4-212 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 55a - Consultants and Personal Service Agreements|Section 4-212 - Definitions.

 As used in sections 4-212 to 4-219, inclusive:(1) “Competitive negotiation” means a procedure for contracting for services in which (A) proposals are solicited from qualified persons, firms or corporations by a request for proposals, and (B) changes may be negotiated in proposals and prices after being submitted.(2) “Personal service contractor” means any person, firm or corporation not employed by the state, who is hired by a state agency for a fee to provide services to the agency. The term “personal service contractor” shall not include (A) a person, firm or corporation providing “contractual services”, as defined in section 4a-50, to the state, (B) a “consultant”, as defined in section 4b-55, (C) a “consultant”, as defined in section 13b-20b, (D) an agency of the federal government, of the state or of a political subdivision of the state, or (E) a person, firm or corporation providing consultant services for information and telecommunications systems authorized under subdivision (3) of subsection (b) of section 4d-2.(3) “Personal service agreement” means a written agreement defining the services or end product to be delivered by a personal service contractor to a state agency, excluding any agreement with a personal service contractor that the state accounting manual does not require to be submitted to the Comptroller.(4) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management.(5) “State agency” means a department, board, council, commission, institution or other executive branch agency.(P.A. 93-336, S. 1, 13; P.A. 96-235, S. 7, 19; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7, S. 97; P.A. 04-58, S. 4; P.A. 09-210, S. 1; P.A. 11-51, S. 113.)History: P.A. 93-336 effective June 29, 1993; P.A. 96-235 substituted “consultant” for “design professional” in Subdiv. (2)(B), effective June 6, 1996; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7 added Subdiv. (2)(E) re exclusion for certain consultant services, effective August 15, 2002; P.A. 04-58 amended Subdiv. (2)(E) by adding “a person, firm or corporation providing”; P.A. 09-210 amended Subdiv. (2)(C) by deleting “providing services to the Department of Transportation” and made technical changes in Subdivs. (1) and (5), effective July 8, 2009; P.A. 11-51 amended Subdiv. (2) to change “subdivision (5) of subsection (c)” to “subdivision (3) of subsection (b)” re reference to Sec. 4d-2, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 4-213 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 55a - Consultants and Personal Service Agreements|Section 4-213 - Personal service agreement required when hiring personal service contractor.

 On and after July 1, 1994, no state agency may hire a personal service contractor without executing a personal service agreement with such contractor.(P.A. 93-336, S. 2, 13.)History: P.A. 93-336 effective June 29, 1993.
CT Gen Stat § 4-214 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 55a - Consultants and Personal Service Agreements|Section 4-214 - Personal service agreements having cost of not more than twenty thousand dollars and term of not more than one year.

 Each personal service agreement executed on or after July 1, 1994, and having a cost of not more than twenty thousand dollars and a term of not more than one year shall be based, when possible, on competitive negotiation or competitive quotations.(P.A. 93-336, S. 3, 13; P.A. 94-188, S. 19; P.A. 09-210, S. 2.)History: P.A. 93-336 effective June 29, 1993; P.A. 94-188 changed the applicable amount of the personal service agreement from $10,000 to $20,000; P.A. 09-210 deleted former Subsec. (b) re state agency reports and made a conforming change, effective July 8, 2009.
CT Gen Stat § 4-217 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 55a - Consultants and Personal Service Agreements|Section 4-217 - Standards. Written procedures. Requests for proposals.

 (a) Not later than March 1, 1994, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall establish standards for state agencies to follow in entering into personal service agreements. The standards shall include, but not be limited to, provisions for: (1) Evaluating the need to use a personal service agreement, (2) developing a request for proposals, (3) advertising for personal service contractors, (4) evaluating submitted proposals, (5) selecting a personal service contractor, including compliance with section 4a-60g, (6) systematically monitoring and evaluating personal service contractor performance, (7) documenting the entire process for selecting and managing personal service contractors and (8) carrying out any other aspect of such process.(b) Not later than May 1, 1994, each state agency shall: (1) Establish written procedures for implementing the standards established by the secretary under subsection (a) of this section, and (2) submit such procedures to the secretary for his approval. If the secretary disapproves an agency's procedures he shall return the procedures to the agency with recommendations for revisions. On and after July 1, 1994, no state agency may execute a personal service agreement unless the secretary has approved procedures established by the agency under this section.(c) A request for proposals issued under section 4-214, 4-215 or 4-216 shall include, but not be limited to, an outline of the work to be performed, the required minimum qualifications for the personal service contractor, criteria for review of proposals by the state agency, the format for proposals and the deadline for submitting proposals. Each state agency which prepares a request for proposals shall establish a screening committee to evaluate the proposals submitted in response to the request for proposals. The screening committee shall rank all proposals in accordance with the criteria set forth in the request for proposals and shall submit the names of the top three proposers to the executive head of the agency, who shall select the personal service contractor from among such names.(P.A. 93-336, S. 6, 13.)History: P.A. 93-336 effective June 29, 1993.
CT Gen Stat § 4-219 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 55a - Consultants and Personal Service Agreements|Section 4-219 - Amendments to personal service agreements.

 No state agency may, without the approval of the secretary, execute (1) an amendment to a personal service agreement, which agreement has an original cost of more than fifty thousand dollars, or (2) an amendment to any other personal service agreement, which amendment (A) has a cost of one hundred per cent or more of the cost of the original agreement, (B) increases the cost of the agreement to more than fifty thousand dollars, (C) extends the terms of the agreement beyond a one-year period or (D) is the second or subsequent amendment to the agreement. The secretary shall approve or disapprove a proposed amendment within fifteen business days after receiving it and any necessary supporting information, provided if the secretary does not act within such fifteen-day period the application shall be deemed to have been approved.(P.A. 93-336, S. 8, 13; 93-435, S. 85, 95; P.A. 96-268, S. 19, 34.)History: P.A. 93-336 effective June 29, 1993; P.A. 93-435 amended the section by adding “any and necessary supporting information” to Subdiv. (2), effective June 28, 1993; P.A. 96-268 added provisions re expansion of the secretary's authority to review amendments, replaced “ten” with “fifteen” and “ten-day” with “fifteen-day” re time limit for approval or disapproval of agreement amendments and made a technical correction, effective July 1, 1996.
CT Gen Stat § 4-234 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 55b - Single Audits and Program-Specific Audits for Recipients of State Financial Assistance|Section 4-234 - Audits in lieu of financial or financial and compliance audits. Additional audits.

 (a) An audit conducted in accordance with sections 4-230 to 4-236, inclusive, shall be in lieu of any financial or financial and compliance audit of state financial assistance programs which a nonstate entity is required to conduct under any other state law or regulation. To the extent that such audit provides a state agency with the information it requires to carry out its responsibilities under state law or regulations, a state agency shall rely upon and use such information and plan and conduct its own audits accordingly in order to avoid a duplication of effort.(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, a state agency shall conduct any additional audits which it deems necessary to carry out its responsibilities, upon a written determination by the executive authority of the agency, based on evidence of fiscal irregularities or noncompliance with applicable laws and regulations, and after consulting with the cognizant agency. The provisions of sections 4-230 to 4-236, inclusive, do not authorize a cognizant agency or any nonstate entity, or any subrecipient thereof, to constrain, in any manner, such state agency from carrying out such additional audits. As used in this subsection and subsection (d) of this section, “executive authority” shall be construed as defined in section 4-37e.(c) The provisions of sections 4-230 to 4-236, inclusive, do not (1) limit the authority of state agencies to conduct, or enter into contracts for the conduct of, audits and evaluations of state financial assistance programs or (2) limit the authority of any state agency auditor or other state audit official.(d) A state agency that performs or contracts for audits in addition to the audits conducted for recipients of state financial assistance pursuant to sections 4-230 to 4-236, inclusive, shall, consistent with other applicable law, pay for the cost of such additional audits. Such additional audits may include, but shall not be limited to, economy and efficiency audits, program results audits and program evaluations. The state agency shall use the results of the single audit as a basis for any additional requirements, and shall not duplicate the single audit unless the executive authority of such agency determines in writing that such duplication is necessary.(P.A. 91-401, S. 5, 20; P.A. 98-143, S. 21, 24.)History: P.A. 98-143 substituted “nonstate entity” for “municipality, audited agency or nonprofit agency” in Subsecs. (a) and (b), amended Subsec. (a) by substituting “state financial assistance programs” for “an individual state assistance program” and deleted former Subsec. (e) re requirement that audits be conducted in conjunction with federal Single Audit Act, effective June 4, 1998, and applicable to audits conducted for fiscal years commencing on and after July 1, 1998.
CT Gen Stat § 4-236 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 55b - Single Audits and Program-Specific Audits for Recipients of State Financial Assistance|Section 4-236 - Regulations.

 (a) The secretary shall, in consultation with the Auditors of Public Accounts, appropriate state officials and representatives of nonstate entities, adopt regulations pursuant to the provisions of chapter 54 to implement the provisions of sections 4-230 to 4-235, inclusive.(b) The secretary shall also adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, (1) concerning the recovery of grant funds based on audit findings, as the secretary deems appropriate for any grantee which is found as a result of an audit to not be in compliance with the standards established pursuant to section 4-233, and (2) establishing uniform standards which prescribe the cost accounting principles to be used in the administration of state financial assistance by the recipients of such assistance.(P.A. 91-401, S. 7, 20; P.A. 98-143, S. 23, 24; P.A. 00-125, S. 1, 2.)History: P.A. 98-143 amended Subsec. (a) by substituting “state officials and representatives of nonstate entities” for “state, municipal and audited agency officials and representatives of nonprofit agencies” and deleting criteria required to be included in regulations, effective June 4, 1998, and applicable to audits conducted for fiscal years commencing on and after July 1, 1998; P.A. 00-125 amended Subsec. (a) to make a technical change, and amended Subsec. (b) to make existing language re regulations Subdiv. (1) and to add Subdiv. (2) re cost accounting principles, effective May 26, 2000.
CT Gen Stat § 4-250 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 55c - Large State Contracts: Certifications|Section 4-250 - Definitions.

 As used in sections 4-250 to 4-252, inclusive:(1) “Gift” has the same meaning as provided in section 1-79, except that the exclusion in subparagraph (L) of subdivision (5) of section 1-79 for a gift for the celebration of a major life event does not apply;(2) “Quasi-public agency”, “public official” and “state employee” have the same meanings as provided in section 1-79;(3) “State agency” means any office, department, board, council, commission, institution or other agency in the executive, legislative or judicial branch of state government;(4) “Large state contract” means an agreement or a combination or series of agreements between a state agency or a quasi-public agency and a person, firm or corporation, having a total value of more than five hundred thousand dollars in a calendar or fiscal year, for (A) a project for the construction, alteration or repair of any public building or public work, (B) services, including, but not limited to, consulting and professional services, (C) the procurement of supplies, materials or equipment, (D) a lease, or (E) a licensing arrangement. The term “large state contract” does not include a contract between a state agency or a quasi-public agency and a political subdivision of the state;(5) “Principals and key personnel” means officers, directors, shareholders, members, partners and managerial employees; and(6) “Participated substantially” means participation that is direct, extensive and substantive, and not peripheral, clerical or ministerial.(P.A. 04-245, S. 2; P.A. 07-213, S. 2; P.A. 13-244, S. 23.)History: P.A. 04-245 effective June 1, 2004; P.A. 07-213 amended Subdiv. (4) to redefine “large state contract” by replacing “having a total cost to such state agency or quasi-public agency” with “having a total value”, effective July 10, 2007; P.A. 13-244 replaced reference to Sec. 1-79(e)(12) with reference to Sec. 1-79(5)(L) in Subdiv. (1) and made technical changes.
CT Gen Stat § 4-251 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 55c - Large State Contracts: Certifications|Section 4-251 - Gift affidavits.

 Section 4-251 is repealed, effective July 13, 2011.(P.A. 04-245, S. 3; P.A. 11-229, S. 10.)
CT Gen Stat § 4-252a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 55c - Large State Contracts: Certifications|Section 4-252a - Certification re whether making certain investments in Iran.

 (a) For purposes of this section, “state agency” and “quasi-public agency” have the same meanings as provided in section 1-79, “large state contract” has the same meaning as provided in section 4-250 and “entity” means any corporation, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, joint venture, nonprofit organization or other business organization whose principal place of business is located outside of the United States, but excludes any United States subsidiary of a foreign corporation.(b) No state agency or quasi-public agency shall enter into any large state contract, or amend or renew any such contract with any entity who (1) has failed to submit a written certification indicating whether or not such entity has made a direct investment of twenty million dollars or more in the energy sector of Iran on or after October 1, 2013, as described in Section 202 of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act of 2010, or has increased or renewed such investment on or after said date, or (2) has submitted a written certification indicating that such entity has made such an investment on or after October 1, 2013, or has increased or renewed such an investment on or after said date. Each such certification shall be sworn as true to the best knowledge and belief of the entity signing the certification, subject to the penalties of false statement.(c) Each state agency and quasi-public agency shall include in the bid specifications or request for proposals for a large state contract a notice of the certification requirements of this section. Prior to submitting a bid or proposal for a large state contract, each bidder or proposer who is an entity shall submit a certification that such bidder or proposer has or has not made an investment as described in subsection (b) of this section.(d) Any entity who makes a good faith effort to determine whether such entity has made an investment described in subsection (b) of this section shall not be subject to the penalties of false statement pursuant to this section. A “good faith effort” for purposes of this subsection includes a determination that such entity is not on the list of persons who engage in certain investment activities in Iran created by the Department of General Services of the state of California pursuant to Division 2, Chapter 2.7 of the California Public Contract Code. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to impair the ability of the state agency or quasi-public agency to pursue a breach of contract action for any violation of the provisions of the contract.(e) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any contract of the Treasurer as trustee of the Connecticut retirement plans and trust funds, as defined in section 3-13c, provided nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prevent the Treasurer from performing his or her fiduciary duties under section 3-13g.(P.A. 13-162, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 4-257 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 55d - Public-Private Partnerships|Section 4-257 - Prequalification and requirements for private entities.

 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4b-91 and chapter 242, the agency shall, when it determines appropriate, provide for a process of prequalification for private entities. Any such process shall include public notice of the prequalification process and the requirements and the criteria the agency will use in determining whether the private entity qualifies for prequalification. Any agency that has determined that such a prequalification process is appropriate for the project shall allow only prequalified private entities to be a proposer. The agency may charge a reasonable application fee for prequalification.(b) In addition to any requirements set forth in the request for proposals, request for qualifications or bid solicitation for a public-private partnership project, in order to be prequalified, a private entity shall:(1) Have available such lawful sources of funding, capital, securities or other financial resources that, in the judgment of the agency in consultation with the Department of Economic and Community Development, are necessary to carry out the public-private partnership project if such private entity is selected as the contractor;(2) Possess either through its staff, subcontractors, a consortium or joint venture agreement the managerial, organizational, technical capacity and experience in the type of project for which the proposer is submitting a bid proposal;(3) Be qualified to lawfully conduct business in this state; and(4) Certify that no director, officer, partner, owner or other individual with direct and significant control over the policy of the private entity has been convicted of corruption or fraud in any jurisdiction of the United States.(Oct. Sp. Sess. P.A. 11-1, S. 82.)History: Oct. Sp. Sess. P.A. 11-1 effective October 27, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 4-259 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 55d - Public-Private Partnerships|Section 4-259 - Terms and conditions of partnership agreement. Prohibitions. Liability of contractor.

 (a) Any partnership agreement executed in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-255 to 4-263, inclusive, shall include, but not be limited to, the following terms and conditions:(1) The term of the agreement, which shall be for a period not to exceed fifty years from the date of the full execution of the partnership agreement;(2) A complete description of the facility to be developed and the functions to be performed;(3) The terms of the financing, development, design, improvement, maintenance, operation and administration of the facility;(4) The rights the state, the contractor, or both, have, if any, in revenue from the financing, development, design, improvement, maintenance, operation or administration of the facility;(5) The minimum quality standards applicable to the project for development, design, improvement, maintenance, operation or administration of the facility, including performance criteria, incentives and disincentives;(6) The compensation of the contractor, including the extent to which and the terms upon which a contractor may charge fees to individuals and entities for the use of the facility, but in no event shall such fee extend to the imposition of tolls on the highways of this state unless such tolls are specifically approved by the General Assembly;(7) The furnishing of an annual independent audit report to the agency covering all aspects of the partnership agreement;(8) Performance and payment bonds or other security deemed suitable by the agency;(9) One or more policies of public liability insurance in such amounts determined by the agency to ensure coverage of tort liability for the public and employees of the contractor and to provide for the continued operation of the partnership project;(10) A reverter of the project to the state upon the conclusion or termination of the partnership agreement;(11) The rights and remedies available to the agency for a material breach of the partnership agreement by the contractor or private entity or if there is a material default;(12) Identification of funding sources to be used to fully fund the capital, operation, maintenance or other expenses under the agreement; and(13) Any other provision determined to be appropriate by the agency.(b) No partnership agreement shall contain any noncompete provisions limiting the ability of the state to perform its functions.(c) No user fees may be imposed by the contractor except as set forth in a partnership agreement.(d) The partnership agreement shall not be construed as waiving the sovereign immunity of the state or as a grant of sovereign immunity to the contractor or any private entity.(e) No contractor shall be liable for the debts or obligations of the state or the agency, unless the partnership agreement provides that such contractor is liable under such agreement.(Oct. Sp. Sess. P.A. 11-1, S. 84.)History: Oct. Sp. Sess. P.A. 11-1 effective October 27, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 4-260 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 55d - Public-Private Partnerships|Section 4-260 - Funding of public-private partnerships.

 The state agency or the state may apply for and accept funds from local or federal government and other sources of financial aid to further the purposes of sections 4-255 to 4-263, inclusive, and to fund public-private partnerships entered into in accordance with said sections.(Oct. Sp. Sess. P.A. 11-1, S. 85.)History: Oct. Sp. Sess. P.A. 11-1 effective October 27, 2011.