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with emphasis on professional competence, to provide the required services. Repetitive formal interviews shall be permissible. Such offerors shall be encouraged to elaborate on their qualifications and performance data or staff expertise 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 or more offerors whose professional qualifications and proposed 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 at a fair and reasonable price. Should the purchasing agent determine in writing that, in his sole discretion, only one offeror is fully qualified or that one offeror is clearly more highly qualified and suitable than the others under consideration, a contract may be negotiated and awarded to that offeror. (b) A contract for architectural or professional engineering services relating to construction projects may be negotiated by a public body, for multiple projects provided (i) the projects require similar experience and expertise, (ii) the nature of the projects is clearly identified in the Request for Proposal, and (iii) the contract term is limited to one year or when the cumulative total project fees reach the maximum cost authorized in this paragraph, whichever occurs first. Such contract may be renewable for two additional one-year terms at the option of the public body. Under such contract, (a) the fair and reasonable prices, as negotiated, shall be used in determining the cost of each project performed, (b) the sum of all projects performed in one contract term shall not exceed one million dollars; and (c) the project fee of any single project shall not exceed $200,000. Any unused amounts from the first contract term shall not be carried forward in the additional term. Competitive negotiations for such contracts may result in awards to more than one offeror provided (1) the Request for Proposal so states and (2) the public body has established procedures for distributing multiple projects among the selected contractors during the contract tenn. Sec. 12-280. Applicability of state ethics in public contracting law. The provisions of Sections 2.2-4367, et seq., of the Code of Virginia (1950) governing ethics in public procurement and contracting and the remedy for violations