Whenever a design professional or design professional services are required by the Joint Committee on Legislative Management in fulfilling its obligations under section 4b-60 in connection with the preservation and restoration of the State Capitol, the following procedures shall be followed:

(1) The committee shall direct the State Commission on Capitol Preservation and Restoration to invite responses from design professionals by advertisements inserted at least once in one or more newspapers having a general circulation in the state. The responses received shall be considered by the commission which shall select from among those responding the three professionals, which in its opinion are most qualified to perform the required design professional services, and submit the names to the committee. If three or fewer responses are received, the commission shall submit the names of all those responding.

(2) The committee may negotiate a contract with the most qualified design professional on the list, in its judgment, at compensation which it determines is both fair and reasonable. If the committee is unable to conclude a contract with any of the design professionals recommended by the commission, it shall issue a finding giving the reasons for such inability and may negotiate with any design professional which it determines to be most qualified to perform the services at fair and reasonable compensation. In determining fair and reasonable compensation, the committee shall consider, in the following order of importance, the professional competence of the design professional, the technical merits of the proposal, the ability of the firm to perform the required services within the time and budgetary limits of the contract and the price for which the services are to be rendered.

(3) As used in this section, “design professional” means any architect, professional engineer, landscape architect, land surveyor or interior designer who is registered to practice his profession in accordance with the applicable provisions of the general statutes; and “design professional services” means those professional services rendered by architects, professional engineers, landscape architects, land surveyors or interior designers, as well as incidental services that members of such professions and those in their employ are authorized to perform.

(P.A. 82-438, S. 4, 6; P.A. 98-235, S. 8.)

History: Sec. 4-24m transferred to Sec. 4b-61 in 1989; P.A. 98-235 amended Subdiv. (3) to include interior designers in definition of “design professional” and professional services rendered by interior designers in definition of “design professional services”.