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30 ILCS 500/35-30

    (30 ILCS 500/35-30)
    Sec. 35-30. Awards.

(a) All State contracts for professional and artistic services, except as
provided in this Section, shall be awarded using the
competitive request for proposal process outlined in this Section. The scoring for requests for proposals shall include the commitment to diversity factors and methodology described in subsection (e-5) of Section 20-15.

(b) For each contract offered, the chief procurement officer, State
purchasing officer, or his or her designee shall use the appropriate standard
solicitation
forms
available from the chief procurement officer for matters other than construction or the higher
education chief procurement officer.

(c) Prepared forms shall be submitted to the chief procurement officer for matters other than construction or the higher education chief procurement officer,
whichever is appropriate, for
publication in its Illinois Procurement Bulletin and circulation to the chief procurement officer for matters other than construction
 or the higher education chief procurement officer's list of
prequalified vendors.  Notice of the offer or request for
proposal shall appear at least 14 calendar days before the response to the offer is due.

(d) All interested respondents shall return their responses to the chief procurement officer for matters other than construction
 or the higher education chief procurement officer,
whichever is appropriate,  which shall open
and record them.  The chief procurement officer for matters other than construction or higher education chief procurement officer
then shall forward the responses, together
with any
information it has available about the qualifications and other State work
of the respondents.

(e) After evaluation, ranking, and selection, the responsible chief
procurement officer, State purchasing officer, or
his or her designee shall notify the chief procurement officer for matters other than construction
or the higher education chief procurement officer, whichever is appropriate,
of the successful respondent and shall forward
a copy of the signed contract for the chief procurement officer for matters other than construction or higher education chief
procurement officer's file.  The chief procurement officer for matters other than construction or higher education chief
procurement officer shall
publish the names of the
responsible procurement decision-maker,
the agency letting the contract, the
successful respondent, a contract reference, and value of the let contract
in the next appropriate volume of the Illinois Procurement Bulletin.

(f) For all professional and artistic contracts with annualized value
that exceeds $100,000, evaluation and ranking by price are required.  Any chief
procurement officer or State purchasing officer,
but not their designees, may select a respondent other than the lowest respondent by
price.  In any case, when the contract exceeds the $100,000 threshold and
the lowest respondent is not selected, the chief procurement officer or the State
purchasing officer shall forward together
with the contract notice of who the low respondent by price was and a written decision as
to why another was selected to the chief procurement officer for matters other than construction or
the higher education chief procurement officer, whichever is appropriate.
The chief procurement officer for matters other than construction or higher education chief procurement officer shall publish as
provided in subsection (e) of Section 35-30,
but
shall include notice of the chief procurement officer's or State purchasing
officer's written decision.

(g) The chief procurement officer for matters other than construction and higher education chief
procurement officer may each refine, but not
contradict, this Section by promulgating rules
for submission to the Procurement Policy Board and the Commission on Equity and Inclusion and then to the Joint Committee
on Administrative Rules.  Any
refinement shall be based on the principles and procedures of the federal
Architect-Engineer Selection Law, Public Law 92-582 Brooks Act, and the
Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying Qualifications Based Selection
Act; except that pricing shall be an integral part of the selection process.

(Source: P.A. 101-657, Article 5, Section 5-5, eff. 7-1-21 (See Section 25 of P.A. 102-29 for effective date of P.A. 101-657, Article 5, Section 5-5); 101-657, Article 40, Section 40-125, eff. 1-1-22; 102-687, eff. 12-17-21.)