Rhode Island Code of Regulations
Title 220 - Department of Administration
Chapter 30 - Purchases
Subchapter 00 - N/A
Part 7 - Supplemental Services (220-RICR-30-00-7)
Section 220-RICR-30-00-7.2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

A. User agencies shall recommend the final selection of providers of legal, medical, and dental services. Agencies shall not commit funds for proposed services prior to receiving approval of the recommended provider from the Chief Purchasing Officer or his designee.

B. The Chief Purchasing Officer may delegate to the Office of Personnel all or a portion of responsibility for evaluation of the need for supplemental services and for verification/validation of qualifications of proposed service providers.

C. The Purchasing Agent shall review proposed change orders to professional consultant contracts (other than medical, dental and legal) which are (reasonably) estimated to exceed twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) and shall determine whether such changes constitute a scope of service requiring open competition.

D. To the extent practicable, selection of supplemental service providers shall be based upon competition. The Purchasing Agent shall require that, whenever possible, a scope of services be defined in terms for which a bid or a response to a request for proposals may be solicited.

E. In accordance with the provision of R.I. Gen. Laws Chapters 5-1 and 5-8, no contract shall be awarded to a person practicing architecture or engineering who has not been professional certified by the appropriate registration boards.

F. Requirements for the selection of construction management contractors shall be the same as those for the selection of architects and engineers.