A contract for professional services having a value over five thousand dollars ($5,000) excluding applicable gross receipts taxes, but not exceeding the amount set forth in Section 13-1-125 NMSA 1978 except for the services of architects, landscape architects engineers, or surveyors for state public works projects, may be procured in accordance with the Procurement Code, Sections 13-1-28 to 13-1-199 NMSA 1978.
N.M. Admin. Code § 1.4.10.11