The contracts for professional or consulting services shall be especially perfected and used solely when the government entity lacks or is unable to use the internal resources to be contracted, or when the expertise, skills or experience of the contractor are needed to achieve the purposes for which the same is contracted. Any contracting procedure executed between a government entity and a contractor shall take into account the real need for the services to be contracted as well as the financial situation and the budget of the contracting government entity.\nHistory —Aug. 31, 2004, No. 237, § 2.
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