1999.1 When used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed:

Appraisal services - services performed by an expert licensed by a state, city, county, or other governmental unit which are associated with the purchase and lease of real property relating to the determination of the value of real property.

Award information - information regarding the name of the contractor and the amount of the contract award.

Consultant - a firm or individual with knowledge and special abilities not generally available to an agency who renders services of a purely advisory nature relating to governmental functions or agency administration and management.

Consulting services - services of a purely advisory nature relating to governmental functions, agency administration and management, or program management which are normally provided by persons that are considered to have knowledge and special abilities not generally available within the agency.

Customer - a recipient of human care services.

Expert - a person with excellent qualifications and a high degree of attainment in a professional, scientific, technical, or other field, whose knowledge and mastery of the principles, practices, problems, methods, and techniques of his or her field of activity, or of a specialized area in the field, are clearly superior to those usually possessed by ordinarily competent persons in that activity, and whose attainment is such that he or she usually is regarded as an authority or as a practitioner of unusual competence and skill by other persons in the profession, occupation, or activity. An expert may be a person who performs or supervises regular duties and operating functions.

Human care services - education or special education, health, human, or social services, to be provided directly to individuals who are disabled, disadvantaged, displaced, elderly, indigent, mentally ill, physically ill, unemployed, or minors in the custody of the District of Columbia.

Task order - an order for services placed against an established human care agreement.

Pre-qualification - the process by which the contracting officer determines whether a prospective service provider under a human care agreement is responsible.

Personal Services Contract - a contract that, by its express terms or as administered, makes the contractor personnel appear, in effect, as District government employees.

Voucher - a written authorization, to a service provider who has been awarded a human care agreement, to provide the services authorized in the agreement and described in the voucher directly to an individual identified in writing.

SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 35 DCR 1492 (February 26, 1988); as amended by Emergency rulemaking published at 47 DCR 8590 (October 20, 2000)[EXPIRED]; as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 48 DCR 5819(June 22, 2001); as amended by Emergency rulemaking published at 48 DCR 8989 (September 28, 2001)[EXPIRED]; as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 1531(February 14, 2003).