Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF0344

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)