The Consultant Services Unit will maintain a healthy partnership with both MDOT and its Consultants involved in the consultant contracting process by providing quality services in a time-efficient manner while facilitating all non-technical aspects of contract administration and ensuring compliance with all federal and state guidelines.

The primary functions of the division include:

• Prepare agenda items for various engineering divisions.
• Prepare legal notice to send to the Clarion-Ledger; Set up pre-evaluation meetings stemming from the legal notice; Prepare minutes of the meetings; Draft selection and rejection letters to mail to the consultant firms; Prepare contracts; Issue the Notice to proceed letters to the consultant firms; Research project information for processing invoices; Communication with consultants; Direct Vouchers for payments in FMS.
• Requisitions for payments in FMS; Supervise processing of invoices; and Research invoice payment questions through SAAS.