The department must advertise consultant-service solicitations, keep a solicitation list, and notify listed firms by email; applicants must submit the required response materials by the stated deadline.
§287. Advertisement; solicitation list; response procedures A. A notice of intent to select a firm for performing consultant services and to request responses from qualified firms and teams shall be advertised by posting it on the department's Internet website. The department shall maintain a solicitation list of consultant firms and teams. The department shall send an email notice to consultant firms and teams on its solicitation list to notify of the posting of an advertisement for consultant services on the department's Internet website. In the case of planning, research, or other specialty services, the department or the Louisiana Transportation Research Center may send notices to firms which, to the knowledge of the department or the Louisiana Transportation Research Center, may have experience in such services. B. Notices shall be advertised a minimum of ten business days prior to the deadline for receipt of responses. C. If the department deems that the number of responses received is inadequate, the project may be readvertised using additional media or publications in an attempt to solicit additional responses. D.(1) The advertisement shall detail all information to be submitted in response to the advertisement. In all cases, a properly completed current department response form shall be submitted by applicants. The response forms shall be made available by the department. If additional information to that provided by the response form is required, it shall be so noted in the advertisement. (2) The applicant shall transmit the response form and any other required information, to the department prior to the deadline shown in the advertisement. Responses which do not meet the requirements provided for in this Subsection shall not be considered. The department shall consider false or misrepresented information furnished in response to the advertisement as grounds for rejection. E. There shall be no advertisement when noncompetitive selection is utilized. Acts 1991, No. 784, §1; Acts 1999, No. 1284, §3; Acts 2009, No. 255, §1, eff. July 1, 2009.