OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL Bond Counsel Invitation to Qualify [34 Pa.B. 659] The Governor's Office of General Counsel (OGC) has established pools of qualified counsel to serve as bond counsel to the following agencies: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Office of the Budget; Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority; State System of Higher Education; Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency; Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority; Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority; Pennsylvania Higher Educational Facilities Authority; and the State Public School Building Authority. The OGC is seeking to review qualifications from legal service providers (law firms) for participation in four designated bond counsel pools to serve the previous financing agencies through a formal Supplementary Invitation to Qualify (ITQ) process.
For more information regarding this Supplementary ITQ, law firms should contact David J. DeVries, Office of General Counsel, 333 Market Street, 17th Floor, Harrisburg, PA 17101, fax (717) 772-9187. Submissions to this Supplementary ITQ are due by 2 p.m. on Monday, March 1, 2004. The OGC will reject as nonresponsive all submissions received after this date and time. The OGC expects to make its bond counsel appointment for further Commonwealth financing transactions only to law firms identified and qualified through this Supplementary ITQ process and thus strongly encourages any and all interested law firms which are not currently qualified to participate at this time to ensure consideration of their qualifications to provide bond counsel services.
LESLIE ANNE MILLER,
General Counsel[Pa.B. Doc. No. 04-202. Filed for public inspection January 30, 2004, 9:00 a.m.]
