§ 39:1569.1 — Contract administration

Louisiana § 39:1569.1

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 39: Procurement and Contract

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§1569.1. Contract administration
A. Upon entering into a professional, personal, consulting, or social service contract,
the using agency shall have full responsibility for the diligent administration and monitoring
of the contract. The state chief procurement officer may require the using agency to report
at any time on the status of any such outstanding contracts to which the using agency is a
party.
B. After completion of performance under a professional, personal, consulting, or
social service contract, the using agency shall prepare a final report on the contract which
shall include an evaluation of contract performance and an assessment of the utility of the
final product. This report shall be delivered to the state chief procurement officer within
sixty days after completion of performance and shall be retained in the official contract file.
Reports not submitted to the office of state procurement within the sixty-day period shall be
delinquent. The report shall include at least the following:
(1) The name of the agency official or officials responsible for monitoring the
contract and for final agency acceptance of the contract deliverables.
(2) The contractor, contract amount, contract cost basis, and contract timetable which
shall reflect both the proposed and actual work initiation and completion dates.
(3) Any contract modifications.
(4) A listing of the contract deliverables, inclusive of specific products and services,
and whether all such deliverables were satisfactorily and timely completed.
(5) An itemization of any problems encountered with respect to the execution of the
contract.
(6) An assessment of the utility of the contract deliverables.
C. Final evaluation reports required by this Section for contracts in amounts of two
hundred fifty thousand dollars or greater shall also be submitted to the legislative auditor.
D. No contract for professional, personal, consulting, or social services shall be
entered into by a using agency with any contractor for which a delinquent final evaluation
report remains outstanding for a contract with such using agency.
E. A report of all multiyear contracts shall be provided to the Joint Legislative
Committee on the Budget no later than ninety days after the end of each fiscal year.

Legislative History

Added by Acts 1978, No. 772, §1. Acts 1985, No. 673, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1424, §1, eff. July 15, 1997; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.