2.__Transportation-related services.__"Transportation-related services" means all services necessary or convenient to discharge the powers, duties and responsibilities of the department and the commissioner as provided by law including those provided in section 4206.__These services include all services necessary or convenient to plan, design, engineer, construct, improve, demolish, maintain or use transportation infrastructure.__These services may include, but are not limited to, planning and feasibility studies, engineering, surveying, mapping, environmental services, architectural-related services, appraisal, title services, right-of-way services, project and program management, construction support services and equal opportunity and civil rights services.

§4242.__Contracts for transportation-related services

The department has full power in the procurement and letting of all contracts for transportation-related services.__The department may award contracts for these services pursuant to procedures permitted by federal law.__The department may solicit statements of qualifications and proposals, and award contracts for services based upon the criteria contained in the solicitations, only if the solicitations are posted electronically on the department's publicly accessible site on the Internet for at least 2 weeks or advertised in newspapers.__ If advertisements are published in newspapers, they must appear in 2 or more public newspapers circulated wholly or in part in the State and in one public newspaper circulated wholly or in part in the county where the proposed work is to be done, if any such newspaper is circulated in that county.

The department has the full power to maintain qualifications and performance data on firms and individuals that seek to provide transportation-related services.__The commissioner may designate projects requiring additional project-specific prequalification standards and procedures for interested firms and individuals.

§4243.__Contracts for construction and maintenance

The department has full power in the procurement and letting of all contracts to construct, demolish or maintain transportation infrastructure.__The department shall make, or cause to be made, all surveys, plans, estimates, specifications and contracts for all proposed work.__If the work is to be contracted, the department shall, except as otherwise provided in