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requirements shall not be artificially divided so as to constitute a small purchase under this section. Purchases under this section that are expected to exceed $30,000 shall require the written informal solicitation of a minimum of four bidders or offerors. Awards shall be made to the business offering the lowest acceptable quotation. The name of the business submitting the quotation and the date and the amount of such quotation shall be recorded and maintained as a part of the contract file. b. A single quotation or term contract may be accepted from any one source in contracts which de not exceed $5,000. Sec. 12-278. Negotiation for professional services. Professional services shall be procured by competitive negotiation when the cost of the professional services is expected to exceed $30,000 for the aggregate of single or term contracts for professional services. The purchasing agent and representative of the using agency shall engage in individual discussions with' all offerors deemed fully qualified, responsible and suitable on the basis of initial responses, with emphasis on professional competence, to provide the required services. Repetitive formal interviews shall be permissible. Such offerors shah be encouraged to elaborate on their qualifications and performance data or staff expettise pertinent to the proposed project, as well as alternative concepts. The request for proposals shall not, however, request that offerors furnish estimates of man-hours or cost for services. At the discussion stage, nonbinding estimates of total project cost, including, where appropriate, design construction and life cycle costing, may be discussed. Proprietary information from competing offerors shall not be disclosed to the public or to competitors. At the conclusion of discussion outlined herein, on the basis of evaluation factors published in the request for proposal and all information developed in the selection process to this point, the purchasing agent shall select, in the order of preference, two (2) or more offerors whose professional qualifications and proposes services are deemed most meritorious. Negotiations shall then be conducted, beginning with the offeror ranked first. If a contract satisfactory and advantageous to the city can be negotiated at a price considered fair and reasonable, the award shall be made to that offeror. Otherwise, negotiations with the offeror ranked first shall be formally terminated and negotiations conducted with the offeror ranked second, and so on until such a contract can be negotiated ar a fair and reasonable price. Should the purchasing agent determine in writing that, in his sole discretion, only one (1) offeror is fully qualified or that one (1) offeror is clearly more highly qualified and suitable than the others under consideration, a contract may be negotiated and awarded to that offeror. 2. That Section 12-252 of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia (1988) be amended by adding thereto a new subsection (d) to read as follows: Sec. 12-252. Bid award generally. Any bidder or offeror who desires m protest an award or the announcement of a decision to award shall submit the protest in writing to the purchasing agent no later than ten days after the public notice of an award or the announcement of the decision to