3230                                          EXECUTIVE ORDERS

contracts with the State for the rendition of
professional engineering or architectural
services on other than a competitive bid
basis, and that they will not participate in
any manner with respect to any matter coming
before the Board in which they, or any firm or
corporation with which they are associated,
has an interest.

4. (a) No contract for the rendition of
professional engineering or architectural
services on other than a competitive bid basis
shall be entered into by the State, or
recommended to the Board of Public Works,
except by the Department of Transportation,
unless approved by the General Professional
Service Selection Board in accordance with
this section.

(b)    The General Professional Service
Selection Board shall, as soon as practicable,
prepare forms designed to elicit and
demonstrate the qualifications of engineers
and architects for projects likely to come
before it; and it shall thereafter give
reasonable public notice of an invitation to
registered engineers and architects to submit
their qualifications to the board on these
forms. The board shall then prepare lists of
engineers and architects deemed by it to be
qualified to render professional services on
projects likely to be submitted to it. The
board may prepare master lists and, if it
deems advisable, subsidiary lists for specific
types of projects. Any registered engineer or
architect or firm thereof omitted from a list
shall, upon written petition to the board, be
afforded a further opportunity to present his
or its qualifications to the board.

(c)    Any State agency desiring to
contract for the rendition of professional
engineering or architectural services on other
than a competitive bid basis shall present the
proposal to the board at a meeting open to the
public. Reasonable public notice shall be
given of the projects being presented to the
board, and interested persons on the qualified
lists shall be afforded an opportunity to
indicate their interest in availability for
any one or more of the projects prior to the
meeting.

(d)    The selection procedures shall