California Code
CHAPTER 10 - Contracts with Private Architects, Engineering, Land Surveying, and Construction Project Management Firms
Section 4529.

4529. This chapter shall not apply where the state or local agency head determines that the services needed are more of a technical nature and involve little professional judgment and that requiring bids would be in the public interest.

(Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 1016, Sec. 5.)