Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 27 - STATE PERSONNEL BOARD › Part 100 › Chapter 2 - ORGANIZATION › Section 27-100-2-103 - 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 (j):
(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,
				any personal service contracts entered into by the Department of Human Services
				through June 30, 2018, which the Executive Director of the Department of Human
				Services determines would be useful in establishing and operating the
				Department of Child Protection Services, any personal service contracts entered
				into by the Department of Child Protection Services through June 30, 2019, and
				any contract for attorney, accountant, auditor, architect, engineer, 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 Mississippi Code
				Annotated §
									7-7-3(6)(d).
				Any rules and regulation changes related to personal and professional services
				contracts that may be proposed by the Personal Service Contract Review Board
				shall be submitted to the Chairmen of the Accountability, Efficiency and
				Transparency Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives at least
				fifteen (15) days prior to the board voting on the proposed changes, and such
				rules and regulation changes, if adopted, shall be promulgated in accordance
				with the Mississippi Administrative Procedures Act;
(b) Approve all personal and professional
				services contracts involving the expenditures of funds in excess of
				Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000);
(c) Develop mandatory 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 shall, unless the
				contract is exempt from competitive procurement under Mississippi Code
				Annotated §
									25-9-120(3)(c),
				(d), or (j), require the agency involved to
				advertise such contract for public bid, and may reserve the right to reject any
				or all bids;
(i) Any agency that seeks to
				procure personal or professional service contracts that are required to be
				approved by the Personal Service Contract Review Board may petition for relief
				from any requirement that the agency use competitive bidding as a procurement
				method. The agency shall be required to show to the Personal Service Contract
				Review Board's satisfaction one (1) of the following:
1. Federal law or federal court order has
				established limitations on the use of competitive bidding for the personal or
				professional contracts the agency is seeking to procure; or
2. The agency is required to hire
				professionals whose members are prohibited from bidding by the rules of
				professional conduct promulgated by the regulating agency or agencies for that
				professional; or
3. The agency can
				establish that the use of competitive bidding will be counterproductive to the
				business of the agency.