Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 27 - STATE PERSONNEL BOARD › Part 1 › Chapter 2 - ORGANIZATION › Section 27-1-2-103 - AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF THE PERSONAL SERVICE CONTRACT REVIEW BOARD

Current through June 25, 2024
The PSCRB has the following powers and responsibilities as
				  delineated in Mississippi Code Annotated §
									25-9-120(3)(a)
				  through (i) (1972, as amended):
(a) Promulgate rules and regulations
				governing the solicitation and selection of contractual services personnel
				including personal and professional services contracts for any form of
				consulting, policy analysis, public relations, marketing, public affairs,
				legislative advocacy services or any other contract that the board deems
				appropriate for oversight, with the exception of any personal service contracts
				entered into for computer or information technology-related services governed
				by the Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services, any personal
				service contracts entered into by the Mississippi Department of Transportation,
				and any contract for attorney, accountant, auditor, physician, dentist,
				architect, engineer, veterinarian and utility rate expert services. Any such
				rules and regulations shall provide for maintaining continuous internal audit
				covering the activities of such agency affecting its revenue and expenditures
				as required under Section
				7-7-3(6)(d)
				of the Mississippi Code Annotated (1972, as amended).
(b) Approve all personal and professional
				services contracts involving the expenditures of funds in excess of One Hundred
				Thousand Dollars ($100,000);
(c)
				Develop standards with respect to contractual services personnel which require
				invitations for public bid, requests for proposals, record keeping and
				financial responsibility of contractors. The Personal Service Contract Review
				Board may, in its discretion, require the agency involved to advertise such
				contract for public bid, and may reserve the right to reject any or all bids;
(d) Prescribe certain
				circumstances whereby agency heads may enter into contracts for personal and
				professional services without receiving prior approval from the PSCRB. The
				PSCRB may establish a preapproved list of providers of various personal and
				professional services for set prices with which state agencies may contract
				without bidding or prior approval from the board.
(e) To provide standards for the issuance of
				requests for proposals, the evaluation of proposals received, consideration of
				costs and quality of services proposed, contract negotiations, the
				administrative monitoring of contract performance by the agency and successful
				steps in terminating a contract;
(f) To present recommendations for
				governmental privatization and to evaluate privatization proposals submitted by
				any state agency;
(g) To authorize
				personal and professional service contracts to be effective for more than one
				(1) year provided a funding condition is included in any such multiple year
				contract;
(h) To request the State
				Auditor to conduct a performance audit on any personal or professional service
				contract;
(i) Prepare an annual
				report to the Legislature concerning the issuance of personal service contracts
				during the previous year, collecting any necessary information from state
				agencies in making such report.
2-103.01
Procurement Regulations
Regulations shall be promulgated with approval of the PSCRB
				  in accordance with authority granted under Mississippi Code Annotated §
										25-9-120
				  (1972, as amended).
2-103.02
Discretionary Authority
The PSCRB shall have the discretion to grant exceptions to
				  these regulations when it is determined that it is in the best interest of the
				  State to do so.
2-103.03
Amendment to the Regulations
These regulations may be amended by the Board as authorized
				  in Mississippi Code Annotated §
										25-9-120
				  (1972, as amended).