30 ILCS 500/35-30
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 30 - FINANCE|30 ILCS 500/ - Illinois Procurement Code.|Article 35 - Procurement of Professional and Artistic Services

Sec. 35-30. Awards.(a) All State contracts for professional and artistic services, except as  provided in this Section, shall be awarded using the  competitive request for proposal process outlined in this Section. The scoring for requests for proposals shall include the commitment to diversity factors and methodology described in subsection (e-5) of Section 20-15.(b) For each contract offered, the chief procurement officer, State  purchasing officer, or his or her designee shall use the appropriate standard  solicitation  forms  available from the chief procurement officer for matters other than construction or the higher  education chief procurement officer.(c) Prepared forms shall be submitted to the chief procurement officer for matters other than construction or the higher education chief procurement officer,  whichever is appropriate, for  publication in its Illinois Procurement Bulletin and circulation to the chief procurement officer for matters other than construction   or the higher education chief procurement officer's list of  prequalified vendors.  Notice of the offer or request for  proposal shall appear at least 14 calendar days before the response to the offer is due.(d) All interested respondents shall return their responses to the chief procurement officer for matters other than construction   or the higher education chief procurement officer,  whichever is appropriate,  which shall open  and record them.  The chief procurement officer for matters other than construction or higher education chief procurement officer  then shall forward the responses, together  with any  information it has available about the qualifications and other State work  of the respondents.(e) After evaluation, ranking, and selection, the responsible chief  procurement officer, State purchasing officer, or  his or her designee shall notify the chief procurement officer for matters other than construction  or the higher education chief procurement officer, whichever is appropriate,  of the successful respondent and shall forward  a copy of the signed contract for the chief procurement officer for matters other than construction or higher education chief  procurement officer's file.  The chief procurement officer for matters other than construction or higher education chief  procurement officer shall  publish the names of the  responsible procurement decision-maker,  the agency letting the contract, the  successful respondent, a contract reference, and value of the let contract  in the next appropriate volume of the Illinois Procurement Bulletin.(f) For all professional and artistic contracts with annualized value  that exceeds $100,000, evaluation and ranking by price are required.  Any chief  procurement officer or State purchasing officer,  but not their designees, may select a respondent other than the lowest respondent by  price.  In any case, when the contract exceeds the $100,000 threshold and  the lowest respondent is not selected, the chief procurement officer or the State  purchasing officer shall forward together  with the contract notice of who the low respondent by price was and a written decision as  to why another was selected to the chief procurement officer for matters other than construction or  the higher education chief procurement officer, whichever is appropriate.  The chief procurement officer for matters other than construction or higher education chief procurement officer shall publish as  provided in subsection (e) of Section 35-30,  but  shall include notice of the chief procurement officer's or State purchasing  officer's written decision.(g) The chief procurement officer for matters other than construction and higher education chief  procurement officer may each refine, but not  contradict, this Section by promulgating rules  for submission to the Procurement Policy Board and the Commission on Equity and Inclusion and then to the Joint Committee  on Administrative Rules.  Any  refinement shall be based on the principles and procedures of the federal  Architect-Engineer Selection Law, Public Law 92-582 Brooks Act, and the  Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying Qualifications Based Selection  Act; except that pricing shall be an integral part of the selection process.(Source: P.A. 101-657, Article 5, Section 5-5, eff. 7-1-21 (See Section 25 of P.A. 102-29 for effective date of P.A. 101-657, Article 5, Section 5-5); 101-657, Article 40, Section 40-125, eff. 1-1-22; 102-687, eff. 12-17-21.)