New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 17 - TREASURY - GENERAL › Chapter 19 - CLASSIFICATION AND PREQUALIFICATION OF FIRMS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 17:19-1.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
"Affiliates" or "related parties" means firms and/or persons
				  having an overt or covert relationship such that any one of them directly or
				  indirectly controls or has power to control another.
"Agency consultant" means a firm that provides technical and
				  professional services to State agencies in support of construction projects or
				  programs through limited task order assignments.
"Agency of government" means any Federal, State, regional,
				  county or local government agency, in this or any other state, including any
				  department, division, commission, authority, office, branch, section and
				  political subdivision or other governmental or quasi-governmental
				  entity.
"Aggregate rating" means the limit of the dollar value of all
				  contracts, public and private, that a firm may perform at any given
				  time.
"Chairperson" means the principal member of the DPMC's
				  consultant selection committee who is responsible for the management of the
				  selection process.
"Classification" means the process and product of assigning
				  specific construction categories or trades and the aggregate ratings that
				  define the eligibility of firms to engage in public work as determined by the
				  DPMC in accordance with this chapter.
"Client agency" means any State entity for which the DPMC
				  provides professional and construction contracting services.
"Construction cost estimate (CCE)" means the estimated
				  construction cost of a specific project.
"Consultant" means an architect, engineer, construction
				  manager, or other professional service firm providing technical and
				  professional services in support of a design or construction project.
"Cost proposal" means a specific fee proposal covering
				  compensation for services as specified.
"Debarment" means an exclusion from public work contracting
				  for a definite period of time.
"Deputy Director" means a Deputy Director of the DPMC or a
				  Deputy Director's duly authorized representative.
"Director" means the Director of the DPMC or the Director's
				  duly authorized representative.
"Disqualification" means exclusion from public work
				  contracting until specific conditions or requirements are satisfied or denial
				  or revocation of the opportunity to bid on or engage in a particular public
				  work contract.
"DPMC" means the Division of Property Management and
				  Construction in the State of New Jersey, Department of the Treasury.
"DPMC-27" means the request for classification form to be
				  submitted by a firm seeking classification as a contractor.
"DPMC-48A" means the Professional Services Prequalification
				  application submitted by a firm seeking prequalification as a
				  consultant.
"DPMC-48T" means the Material Testing Laboratory
				  prequalification application submitted by a firm seeking prequalification as a
				  material testing laboratory.
"Final Project Performance Evaluation" (FPPE) means the
				  mathematical average of all interim performance reviews for a contractor or a
				  consultant on a completed project.
"Firm" means any company, sole proprietorship, partnership,
				  association, corporation, joint stock company, limited liability company, or
				  other business entity and their lessees, trustees, assignees or
				  receivers.
"Major project" means a project with an anticipated cost for
				  services greater than that allowed by the routine contract procedure or a
				  project of a complex or specialized nature, which includes technical work
				  requiring special licenses or certifications, new building technologies or
				  processes, historical renovations, the potential for unforeseeable conditions,
				  which may increase the project cost significantly, the need for increased
				  competition, and/or the need to combine several smaller components or projects
				  to ensure effective coordination and completion of the project(s) as determined
				  by the Director.
"Member" means an individual appointed to serve on a
				  selection committee.
"Prequalification" means a process of reviewing information
				  and experience data to determine the prequalification level and professional
				  disciplines of consultants and the result thereof.
"Prequalification level" means the maximum construction cost
				  estimate dollar level for which a consultant is prequalified. Prequalification
				  levels are established and periodically adjusted by the Director, in accordance
				  with this chapter.
"Public work" means any public building or other public
				  betterment or improvement constructed, repaired or improved wholly or in part
				  at the expense of any agency of government required or permitted to use the
				  DPMC's classification of contractors and/or prequalification of design
				  consultants.
"Ranking" means the process of combining the selection
				  evaluations of all individual members of the selection committee and ordering
				  the firms from highest to lowest total scores.
"Routine project" means a project with an anticipated cost
				  for services less than that allowed in a major project as set forth in the
				  DPMC's policy.
"Selection committee" means the body responsible for
				  selecting consultant firms for State projects.
"Selection coordinator" means the administrator of the
				  day-to-day committee operations and procedures, including advertising of
				  projects, scheduling of meetings, preparing agendas, recording scores,
				  preparing minutes of committee meetings and similar administrative
				  responsibilities.
"Selection evaluation" means the numerical scoring of the
				  consultant's submission by an individual member of the selection
				  committee.
"Significant project" means a project equal to or greater
				  than the average dollar value of completed projects for the previous three
				  years. These projects may be public projects, private projects, or a
				  combination of the two.
"State" means the State of New Jersey, or any of the
				  departments or agencies in the executive branch of government with the lawful
				  authority to engage in contracting.
"Suspension" means an exclusion from public work contracting
				  for a period of time, pending the completion of an investigation, legal
				  proceedings or administrative proceedings.
"Term contract" means a contract awarded to a consultant for
				  a specific time period based upon the qualifications of the consultant firm
				  and/or hourly rates for specific service categories.
"Trade" means a specific category of construction work for
				  which a firm may be classified by DPMC in accordance with this
				  subchapter.
"Work order" means a DPMC form to be used by a contracted
				  consultant to submit proposals for approval for limited assignment task orders
				  based on hourly rates for professional services to be provided to State
				  government agencies.