All requests for proposals (RFPs) for engineering services to
be performed for any County agencies, offices, divisions or departments,
issued on or after the 90th day subsequent to the effective date of
this article, shall include a provision requiring those engineering
firms and all engineering subconsultants responding to the RFP to
include a copy of their certificate of authorization to practice engineering
in New York State, issued pursuant to § 7210 of the New
York Education Law, with their response to the RFP, with the name
on the certificate to be consistent with that contained on the responder's
(and subconsultant's) letterhead.
Any engineering entity submitting plans, reports, specifications,
analyses, permit applications or other engineering work to any County
agency, office, division or department shall have a copy of its certificate
of authorization, issued pursuant to § 7210 of the New York
Education Law, on file with the agency, office, division or department
for which the work is being submitted or performed.
Failure to file said certificate of authorization, or to submit
same with any submission, shall be grounds for automatic rejection
of the plan, report, analysis, work, application, specification or
service as well as for automatic denial of payment by Suffolk County
for any work or services performed on behalf of the County of Suffolk
by such engineering entity.