2020 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 11 - Public Finance
Chapter 35 - South Carolina Consolidated Procurement Code
Section 11-35-3310. Indefinite quantity contracts for architectural-engineering and land-surveying services.

(1) General Applicability. Indefinite quantity contracts may be awarded on an as-needed basis for architectural-engineering and land-surveying services pursuant to Section 11-35-3220.

(2) Architectural-Engineering and Land-Surveying Services. When architectural-engineering and land-surveying services contracts are awarded, each contract must be limited to a total expenditure of three hundred thousand dollars for a two-year period with individual project expenditures not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars; however, for public institutions of higher learning, and for technical college service contracts authorized by the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education, these limits shall be five hundred thousand dollars for total expenditures and two hundred thousand dollars for individual expenditures within the time periods specified.

(3) Small Indefinite Quantity Contracts. Small indefinite quantity contracts for architectural-engineering and land-surveying services may be procured as provided in Section 11-35-3230. A contract established under this section must be subject to Section 11-35-3230, and any applicable regulations.

HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 178, Section 35; 1997 Act No. 153, Section 1; 2008 Act No. 174, Section 19; 2011 Act No. 74, Pt V, Section 7, eff August 1, 2011; 2019 Act No. 41 (S.530), Section 49, eff May 13, 2019.

Editor's Note

2008 Act No. 174, Section 21, provides as follows:

"This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and applies to solicitations issued on or after January 1, 2008."

2019 Act No. 41, Section 80, provides as follows:

"SECTION 80. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and applies to solicitations issued after that date."

Effect of Amendment

The 2011 amendment rewrote the section.

2019 Act No. 41, Section 49, in (1), in the second sentence, substituted "quantity contracts" for "delivery contracts" and deleted "construction services pursuant to the procedures in Section 11-35-3015(2)(b) and for" following "as-needed basis for", deleted (a), which related to construction services, and redesignated (b) as (2) and (2) as (3); and in (3), in the first sentence, substituted "Quantity Contracts" for "Delivery Contracts", in the second sentence, substituted "quantity contracts" for "delivery contracts" and in the third sentence, substituted "applicable regulations" for "regulations promulgated except that for public institutions of higher learning, and for technical college delivery contracts authorized by the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education, the individual and total contract limits shall be fifty thousand and one hundred fifty thousand dollars, respectively".