E Relating to state government, limiting the use of consultants ARTICLE 1 � MORATORIUM ON PROFESSIONAL/TECHNICAL SERVICE CONTRACTSPlacing a moratorium on the use of professional or technical service +contracts by the executive, legislative and judicial branches of state +government including the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU), +exceptions; authorizing and providing for requests for waivers from the +moratorium to avoid disruption of essential state functions or legal liability; requiring+ the governor to reduce executive agency expenditures on contracts for +professional or technical services by a certain amount for the next biennium, +defining professional or technical services and executive agency ARTICLE 2 � CHANGES IN CONTRACTING LAWModifying a certain provision requiring certain detailed estimates in+ the state budget relating to professional or technical service contracts, +requiring integration; encouraging state employees discovering evidence of +violations of laws or rules governing state contracts to report violations to the +supervisor, commissioner or legislative auditor, requiring the legislative +auditor to report multiple complaints from the same agency to the legislative +coordinating commission; modifying certain validity requirements for state +procurement contracts, prohibiting work under the contract until approval by the +attorney general and funding obligation or encumbrance, requiring the attorney+ general to develop standard contract forms and to periodically review and +evaluate sample state agency contracts for compliance; requiring the +commissioner of administration to establish a process for agency appeal of +commissioner refusal to approve proposed contracts; requiring notices of solicitation for+ certain acquisitions to be posted on a state web site; requiring commissioner+ attempts to publicize contracts to notify a variety of interested vendors and +review and approval of publication plans of other agencies with contracting +authority before the solicitation of bids; requiring annual commissioner +reports to the governor and legislature on executive branch agency contracts +entered into during the prior fiscal year, requiring the inclusion of certain +specified aggregate information on contracting and separate annual reporting of+ certain information on single source contracts; modifying certain state +employee skills inventory requirements relating to professional or technical +services, eliminating the requirement for the commissioner of employee +relations (DOER) to develop a directory of state agency services, modifying certain +contract approval requirements and specifying certain publication and annual +reporting requirements of the commissioner of administration; requiring +contractors to include state employees in development or training to ensure the +ongoing performance of work related to the function by the employees; +modifying the contracting procedure, specifying certain requirements for contract +provisions relating to the ownership of intellectual property and restricting +approval of contract extensions or amendments increasing contractor compensation;+ requiring agencies upon completion of the contracts to complete a performance +evaluation of work done under the contract, specifying certain evaluation +content requirements; requiring LCC biennial audits of agency contracting +practices, specifying certain content requirements (mk, ja)