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State auditor advises Hooper City to put professional services contracts out to bid; council tables legal‑services RFP
Summary
Seth Olesund, manager of the Local Government Division at the Utah State Auditor's Office, told the Hooper City Council on April 3 that municipal professional‑services contracts should be documented and competitively procured when they exceed the local thresholds established in the city's purchasing policy.
Seth Olesund, manager of the Local Government Division at the Utah State Auditor's Office, told the Hooper City Council on April 3 that municipal professional‑services contracts should be documented and competitively procured when they exceed the local thresholds established in the city's purchasing policy.
Olesund said the auditor's office had received complaints and recommended that the city issue requests for proposals (RFPs) or requests for qualifications (RFQs) for recurring professional services such as legal, engineering and accounting. ‘‘You should have a contract for those,’’ he said, and added that when the total payments to a vendor cross a locally set bidding threshold the contracts should be…
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