As used in this part:

1. (1) “Administrator” means a school entity superintendent, an educational cooperative director, the administrator, director, chairman, or president of a charter school, or other educational entity;
2. (2) “Commission” means the Commission for Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation;
3. (3) “Commodities” means all supplies, goods, material, equipment, machinery, facilities, and personal property purchased for or on behalf of an entity;

4. (4) “Construction project” means:

   1. (A) Making or forming an improvement by combining:

      1. (i) Parts;
      2. (ii) Labor; or
      3. (iii) Materials; or
   2. (B) The erection or alteration that exceeds a cost of thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) of a structure or physical object under the supervision or ownership of a public educational entity;

5. (5)

   1. (A) “Design professional” means a person or firm who provides professional expertise in order to carry out a capital erection, repair, or improvement project.

   2. (B) Design professionals may include, but may not be limited to, the following professionals:

      1. (i) Planners (land, city, utilities, etc.);
      2. (ii) Architects;
      3. (iii) Landscape architects;
      4. (iv) Surveyors (land); and
      5. (v) Engineers (consulting and professional engineers providing expertise in various licensed fields such as civil, electrical, mechanical, structural, sanitary, etc.);
6. (6) “Division” means the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation;
7. (7) “Maintenance work” means the repair, but not the replacement or alteration, that exceeds a cost of thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) of existing facilities when the size, capacity, and type of the existing facility or equipment is not thereby substantially changed or increased;
8. (8) “Open market purchases” means those purchases of commodities by any purchasing official in which competitive bidding is not required;

9. (9) “Public educational entities” means Arkansas:

   1. (A) Public school districts;
   2. (B) Charter schools;
   3. (C) Educational cooperatives; or
   4. (D) Any publicly-supported entity having supervision over public educational entities; and

10. (10) “Self-construction” means any construction where the public educational entity:

    1. (A) Uses its own employees;
    2. (B) Acts as a general contractor;
    3. (C) Uses a construction manager while acting as a general contractor; or
    4. (D) Acts as its own construction manager using contracted construction services.