1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to the Metropolitan Council; requiring formal solicitation procedures for 
1.3 	professional and technical services contracts;proposing coding for new law in 
1.4 	Minnesota Statutes, chapter 473.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. [473.1291] PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL SERVICES 
1.7 	CONTRACTS.
1.8 		Subdivision 1.Definition. For the purposes of this section, "professional or 
1.9 	technical services" means services that are intellectual in character, including consultation, 
1.10 	analysis, evaluation, prediction, planning, programming, or recommendation, and result in 
1.11 	the production of a report or the completion of a task. Professional or technical contracts 
1.12 	do not include the provision of supplies or materials except as incidental to the provision 
1.13 	of professional or technical services.
1.14 		Subd. 2.Solicitation of service contracts. The council must use a formal 
1.15 	solicitation process with sealed responses for any professional or technical services 
1.16 	contract valued in excess of $50,000.

1.17 	Sec. 2. APPLICATION.
 1.18 	This section applies in the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, 
1.19 	Scott, and Washington.