Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 34 - GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS, PROCUREMENT AND PROPERTY CONTROL › Part III - Facility Planning and Control › Chapter 1 - Capital Improvement Projects › Subchapter A - Procedure Manual › Section III-103 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
Available Funds for Construction (AFC)
-the
					 budgeted amount of funds, established by the owner prior to bidding, available
					 for awarding the construction contract(s).
Consultants
-individuals or organizations
					 engaged by the owner or the designer to provide professional consultant
					 services complementing or supplementing the designer's services. As applicable,
					 consultants shall be licensed to practice in accordance with laws of the state
					 of Louisiana. The owner shall engage or have the designer furnish as part of
					 the designer's services the services of consultants, which are deemed necessary
					 for the project. Typical consultants are architects, landscape architects,
					 civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineers, and others required to
					 provide the services required or implied by the scope of the project,
					 compensation for which is included in designer's fee for basic services.
					 Special consultants are those, other than the above, which the owner may
					 approve to perform special services and for which compensation will be in
					 accordance with
					 §109.C
Designer
-a person or organization
					 professionally qualified and licensed to practice architecture, engineering, or
					 landscape architecture in accordance with the laws of the state of Louisiana,
					 who is to perform basic services for the project, as named in the
					 contract.
Owner
-the State of Louisiana, Office of
					 the Governor, Division of Administration, the responsibilities of which shall
					 be exercised by the Commissioner of Administration or the designated
					 representative, the Office of Facility Planning and Control (FP and C).
Project
-a Capital Outlay Project for which
					 funds have been appropriated or other public government project for which funds
					 are available, as specifically defined in the program attached to and stated in
					 the contract between owner and designer.
Standard of Care
-the designer and their
					 professional consultants shall perform their services consistent with the skill
					 and care ordinarily provided by similar professionals practicing in the same or
					 similar locality under the same or similar circumstances.
User Agency
-the agency, department,
					 division, board or institution which will be the principal user of and for
					 which the facility is being designed and constructed, as named in the contract.
					 Where reference is made hereinafter to the
user agency
, it
					 will refer to both the "umbrella" and "local" entities of the department,
					 board, agency, division, etc. (Examples: The LSU Board of Supervisors and the
					 Department of Health are "umbrella" using agencies and "local" using agencies
					 such as LSU-Alexandria and Pinecrest Support and Services Center are under
					 their respective jurisdiction and administration).
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 39:1410.