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Ordinance No. 2002-72 (C) "Firm" means any person, company, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or other entity in the business of providing, and legally authorized under the laws of the State of Ohio to provide, services. (D) "Professional service" means a personal service provided by an accountant, architect, attorney, professional engineer, landscape architect, surveyor, or other similar person or firm who is required to be registered or licensed by the State of Ohio. (E) "Personal Service" means the service of an offeree who is vested with discretion in accomplishing an assigned task because his or her skills, knowledge, experience and expertise are unique to the subject matter of a contract and could not be duplicated by others not similarly qualified. "Personal Service" shall not include any service that, under Article VIII, Section 6 of the Charter, may be made only pursuant to a contract awarded following competitive bidding. (F) "Qualifications" means all of the following: (1) Competence of a firm to perform the required personal services as indicated by the technical training, education, and experience of the firm's personnel, especially the technical training, education, and experience of the employees within the firm who would be assigned to perform the personal services; (2) Ability of the firm in terms of its workload and the availability of qualified personnel, equipment, and facilities to perform the required personal services competently and expeditiously; (3) Past performance of the firm as reflected by the evaluations of previous clients with respect to such factors as control of costs, quality of work, and meeting of deadlines; (4) Other similar factors. (G) "Service" means the furnishing of labor, time or effort by a person or firm, not involving the delivery of a specific end product other than a report which, if provided, is merely incidental to the required performance. "Services" does not include services furnished pursuant to employment agreements or collective bargaining agreements, 111.04 SUBMISSION OF STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS. (A) Each Director shall establish and implement a policy encouraging firms, including but not limited to professional service firms, from time to time, to submit statements of qualifications to perform services for the City, and to update such statements at regular intervals. (B) Each Director shall further establish and implement a policy for prequalification requirements for professional service firms seeking to provide services to the City and may require that each prequalified firm maintain a current statement of qualifications on file with the City. The prequalification requirements shall be based on factors such as those set out in paragraph (F) of Section 111.03 of this Chapter 111.05 REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR PERSONAL SERVICES. (A) A Director may request proposals for a personal service to be provided by contract only upon Council duly adopting an ordinance authorizing the Director to request such proposals, and further authorizing the Mayor, upon approval by the Board of Control, to enter into a contract with the firm most qualified to perform the personal service requested at a compensation determined to be fair and reasonable to the City. Attached to every legislative request for such 2