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No other factors or criteria shall be used in The contract file shall contain a statement in basis on which the award was made. the evaluation. writing of the 3. That Section 11-128 of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, 1973, be amended to ~ead as follows: Section 11-128. Contracting for professional services by competitive negotiation. Prcfessional services shall be procured by competitive negotiation when the cost of the professional services is expected to exceed Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.) 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 permissable. Such offerors shall be encouraged to elaborate on their qualifications and performance data or staff expertise pertinent ko 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, non-binding estimates of total pro3ect 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 proposed services are deemed most meritorious. Negotiations shall then be conducted, beginning with the offeror ranked ~irst. ~f 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 at a ~air and reasonable price. Should the purchasing agent determine tn writing that in his sole discretion that only one offeror is fully qualified, or that one offeror is clearly more highly qualified and suitable 5hah the others under consideration, a contract may be negotiated and awarded to that offeror. 4. That Section 11-129 (4) of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, 1973, be amended to read as follows: