10-7-20.5. Restrictions on municipality procurement of architect-engineer services.
(1) As used in this section, "architect-engineer services" means those professional services within the scope of the practice of architecture as defined in Section, or professional engineering as defined in Section. 58-3a-102 58-22-102
(2) When a municipality elects to obtain architect or engineering services by using a competitive procurement process and has provided public notice of its competitive procurement process: a higher education entity, or any part of one, may not submit a proposal in response to the municipality's competitive procurement process; and the municipality may not award a contract to perform the architect or engineering services solicited in the competitive procurement process to a higher education entity or any part of one.