California Code of Regulations › Title 21 - Public Works › Division 2 - Department of Transportation › Chapter 12 - Selection Process for Private Architectural and Engineering Firms › Article 1 - General Provisions › Section 1520.1 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
As used in these regulations:
(a) "Firm" means any individual, firm,
				  partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity permitted by law
				  to practice the professions of architecture or engineering, as defined in
				  section 1520.1(e) of
				  these regulations.
(b) "Small
				  business" firm is a firm certified as a "small business" in accordance with
				  Section
				  14837 of
				  the Government Code or its successor provisions.
(c) "Director" is the Director of the
				  Department of Transportation.
(d)
				  "Department" is the Department of Transportation.
(e) The term "architectural and engineering
				  (hereafter "A&E") services" shall include all architectural, landscape
				  architectural, environmental, engineering, land surveying, right of way
				  engineering, construction engineering, construction management and project
				  management services, as well as incidental services that members of these
				  professions and those in their employ may logically or justifiably perform, in
				  support of the aforementioned services, including permitting and environmental
				  studies, design phase services, construction phase services, public outreach
				  and meeting facilitation related to the foregoing. "A&E services" shall not
				  include legal services rendered to the Department, provided that nothing in
				  these regulations shall prevent an A&E contractor from consulting legal
				  counsel and including the fees as part of its reasonable overhead.
(f) "Project" includes a project as defined
				  in Section
				  10105
				  of the Public Contract Code, or as defined in Public Resources Code Section
				  21065.
				  Project shall also include any and all transportation projects and any and all
				  related services including all architectural, landscape architectural,
				  environmental, engineering, land surveying, right of way engineering,
				  construction engineering, construction management and project management
				  services. "Project" also includes "services" which relate to public works of
				  improvement or other similar Department needs. "Services" shall mean any
				  activity described in Section
				  1520.1(e)
				  including incidental or ancillary services typically, logically or justifiably
				  performed in connection therewith. Such incidental services may include
				  educational, instructional, training, and public outreach services, providing
				  workshops, making presentations and facilitating meetings. Furthermore,
				  "project" means the nature or scope of work being solicited as defined by a
				  statewide announcement and/or Request for Qualifications.
(g) "RFQ" is an acronym for Request for
				  Qualifications, the solicitation document used to request a Statement of
				  Qualifications of firms that perform A&E services.
(h) "SOQ" is an acronym for Statement of
				  Qualifications, the response to an RFQ or annual announcement submitted by
				  firms that perform A&E services.
1. Editorial
					 correction of NOTE filed 12-14-82 (Register 82, No. 51).
2.
					 Amendment of section and NOTE filed 10-2-2006; operative 11-1-2006 (Register
					 2006, No. 40).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						4526 and
						4529.10,
						Government Code. Reference: Article XXII, California Constitution, Sections
						1-2; Sections
						4525,
						4526,
						4527 and
						4529.10,
						Government Code; Section
						21065,
						Public Resources Code; and Section
						10105,
						Public Contract Code..