PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PROVIDER CERTIFICATION
FOR REQUIREMENTS UNDER $50,000
(To be completed by Principal or Department Head)
1. Services provided by a Professional:
Professional Services: A “professional service” is a service requiring predominantly mental or intellectual, rather than physical or manual, skills and requires years of education and service for attaining competence and calls for a high order of intelligence, skill and learning. Professional services may be evidenced by special licensure, though this is not a requirement. Texas law specifically recognizes the following as professional services which must be procured by a specific process set forth in the Professional Services Procurement Act (Chapter 2254 of the Government Code): architecture, accounting, landscape architecture, land surveying, medicine, optometry, engineering, real estate appraising, and nursing. There are other professional services (such as professions in law, finance, public relations, management, business, real estate brokerage, etc.), but the District has greater latitude in determining how to procure these other professional services not covered by the Professional Services Procurement Act. If guidance is needed to determine if a service is a “professional service,” contact the Director of Materials Management.
Principals and Department Heads shall coordinate with Materials Management regarding the procedures required to procure professional services.
Selection of Professional Services:
Refer to Administrative Procedure C18 for the process to select professional services.
2. Professional Service Verification. Provide a description of the special knowledge, high order of learning, skill, licensure etc. Check the appropriate blocks and provide the information establishing the service to be procured meets the definition of “professional service”:
Special Licensure:Advanced Academic Degree(s):
State of Texas Certification(s):
Teacher Certificate:
Internship Program(s):
Other information and basis for determining professional service:
3. Submitted by:
Printed Name / Department / Org #. / Date Submitted
4. Board Policy CH (LOCAL) permits the acquisition of the following professional services without a formal procurement process: Speech therapists, orientation and mobility specialists, sign language interpreters, psychology interns, and professional development/student training. For a service coming under a foregoing category, recommend a vendor(s): (Include: Vendor Name, Address, Contact Person, State, and Zip Code).
Principal/Department Head Signature: Date:
Revised September 27, 2013Form C18-D