Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 34 - GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS, PROCUREMENT AND PROPERTY CONTROL › Part V - Procurement › Chapter 25 - Procurement of Professional, Personal, Consulting, Social Services, and Energy Efficiency Contracts › Subchapter A - General Provisions › Section V-2503 - Definitions and Classes of Contractual Services

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The following services shall be contracted
				  out in accordance with these regulations.
1.
Personal Services-
for contracts with individuals who render
				  work which requires use of creative or artistic skills including but not
				  limited to those individual services identified in
				  R.S.
				  39:1556(37) and
				  entertainers, expert speakers and other services satisfying the requirements of
				  the definition for personal services as added by regulation.
2.
Professional Service-
for
				  contracts with a total amount of compensation of $50,000 or more, the
				  definition of "professional service" shall be limited to lawyers, doctors,
				  dentists, psychologists, certified advanced practice nurses, veterinarians,
				  architects, engineers, land surveyors, landscape architects, accountants,
				  actuaries, claims adjusters, pharmacists, visiting professors, municipal
				  advisors, and any other profession that may be added by regulations adopted by
				  the Office of State Procurement of the Division of Administration.
3.
Consulting Service-
for
				  contracts as defined in
				  R.S.
				  39:1556(10).
4.
Retroactive Claims Recovery
				  Services-
those consulting services where third party coverage
				  identification and verification represent the primary services, and any
				  operations type activities such as information technology and/or claims
				  submission are merely incidental to the total work tasks to be performed, and
				  where such services will result in revenue enhancement to the state through a
				  contingency fee arrangement. The RFP process for this type of consulting
				  service shall require that at least 50 percent of total weighted criteria for
				  evaluation be allocated to cost.
5.
Social Service-for
contracts as defined in
				  R.S.
				  39:1556(54).
6
.a.
Performance-Based Energy Efficiency Contract
-a contract for
				  energy efficiency services and equipment in which the payment obligation for
				  each year of the contract is either:
i. set as
				  a percentage of the annual energy cost savings attributable to the services or
				  equipment under the contract; or
ii. guaranteed by the person under contract
				  to be less than the annual energy cost savings attributable to the services or
				  equipment under the contract.
b. Any state agency, board, or commission may
				  enter into a performance-based energy efficiency contract for services and
				  equipment. Any such agency, board, or commission shall contact the Division of
				  Administration for assistance in preparation of the requests for proposals,
				  analysis of the proposals, and development of the contract. The contract shall
				  be considered a consulting services contract.
c. Performance-based energy efficiency
				  contracts shall be awarded through a request for proposal process. Any
				  performance-based energy efficiency contract entered into shall be for a period
				  not to exceed 10 years and shall contain a guarantee of energy
				  savings.
7. Interagency
				  contracts between governmental entities as defined in
				  R.S.
				  39:1556(25) and 1556(30),
				  respectively, for any of the services enumerated in Paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or
				  6 of this Subsection shall be governed by these regulations, except that
				  contracts between boards of higher education and their respective institutions
				  shall be exempt.