Unless the construction manager-agent is an employee of the purchasing agency and provides the construction management services pursuant to such employment, no purchasing agency may engage the services of a construction manager except as follows: (1) The purchasing agency shall first make the following determinations: (a) That it is in the public interest to utilize the services of a construction manager; and (b) That the construction management services would not unreasonably duplicate and would be in addition to the normal scope of separate architect or engineer contracts; (2) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, no construction manager may contract to perform actual construction on the project, except as follows: (a) The construction manager may perform general conditions of the construction contract as required by the owner; (b) The construction manager is a construction manager-at-risk and was solicited through a qualification-based request for proposals method of procurement as provided in § 5-18B-44 and the construction manager-at-risk, for any actual construction contracted by the construction manager-at-risk to be performed on the project, provides payment and performance bonds and competitively bids the work as required by any statute governing bidding and bonding for public improvement projects; (c) Pursuant to a contract awarded on an emergency basis, pursuant to § 5-18A-9 ; or (d) Pursuant to a contract negotiated pursuant to subdivision 5-18A-5(9); and (3) No person, firm, or corporation may act as a construction manager-agent and also as a contractor on any public improvement, except as follows: (a) Pursuant to a contract awarded on an emergency basis, pursuant to § 5-18A-9 ; or (b) Pursuant to a contract negotiated pursuant to subdivision 5-18A-5(9).
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