https://www.gao.gov/products/139127

B-233987,B-233987.2: Jul 14, 1989

The Forest Service requested an advance decision regarding changes in procurement requirements stemming from 1988 amendments to a 1972 act defining architectural and engineering services. GAO held that the amendments, which clarified the differences between incidental and professional architectural and engineering services, necessitated a modification of its method for determining whether such ser...

https://www.gao.gov/products/404852

B-233987,B-233987.2: Jul 14, 1989

Sec. 541 (1982) (the Brooks Act). /1/ The principal question raised by the Forest Service is whether various services enumerated in the new definition of A-E services. Require the use of specialized A-E procedures prescribed by the Brooks Act when those services are not being procured incidental to or in conjunction with traditional A-E projects. Requirements and evaluation criteria are publicly a...