(a) The State Procurement Director shall prescribe standard forms to be utilized by all state agencies.

(b) The standard contract form shall include the following items, plus such additional items as the director shall deem desirable for the purposes of this subchapter:

(1) A section setting forth in reasonable detail the objectives and scope of the contractual agreement and the methods to be used to determine whether the objectives specified have been achieved;

(2) The rates of compensation, transportation, per diem, subsistence, out-of-pocket allowances, and all other items of costs contemplated to be paid the contractor by the state agency;

(3) The method by which the rate of compensation and the total payment shall be calculated;

(4) The maximum number of dollars which the state agency may be obligated to pay to the contractor under the terms of the contract, including all expenses and other items of costs, and the source of funding to be utilized;

(5) The term of the contract;

(6)

(A) The names of all individuals who will be supplying services to the state agency or to third-party beneficiaries under the terms of the contracts, so far as those names are known to the contractor at the time of the execution of the contract.

(B) If the names of all individuals supplying services under the contract are not available at the time of the execution of the contract, the contract shall contain a provision requiring the contractor to submit periodically the names of individuals supplying services as soon as the identity of those individuals is known to the contractor;

(7) When the contractor is a business entity, the federal identification number of the business entity shall be listed on the contract form;

(8) (A) A certification signed by the contractor shall be included as follows:

"____________________ (name) ____________________ (title)

I _________________, certify under penalty of perjury that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, no regular full-time or part-time employee of any state agency of the State of Arkansas will receive any personal, direct, or indirect monetary benefits which would be in violation of the law as a result of the execution of this contract."

(B) As used in subdivision (b)(8)(A) of this section, it shall be understood that when the contractor is a widely held public corporation "direct or indirect monetary benefit" shall not apply to any regular corporate dividends paid to a stockholder of the corporation who is also a state employee and who owns less than ten percent (10%) of the total outstanding stock of the contracting corporation;

(9)

(A) For any contract in which the total compensation exclusive of reimbursable expenses to be paid by the state agency does not exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), a purchase order may be utilized in lieu of the standard form or forms prescribed by the director.

(B)

(i) However, should the state agency enter into a subsequent contract with the same individual or organization during the same fiscal year, regardless of the nature of the contract, then the details of the original contract which utilized a purchase order form and of all subsequent contracts, regardless of amount or type, shall be promptly reported to the director.

(ii) This reporting shall be done to allow the director to determine whether the state agency is utilizing a series of contracts to avoid the use of the standard form and to avoid the application of appropriate regulations;

(10) Standard contract forms in use by licensed practitioners such as architects and engineers may be used to supplement the standard contract forms; and

(11) All professional consultant services contracts shall contain the following clause:

"This provision shall not be construed to abridge any other right of termination the agency may have."

(c) For the purpose of reporting methods of finance, a state agency shall disclose the total estimated project cost in addition to any other reporting requirements of the Legislative Council or the Joint Budget Committee.