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Ordinance amending Chapter 4.04 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code relating to Purchasing Procedures to permit utilization of cooperative purchasing processes between public agencies for public works projects.
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WHEREAS, the City of South San Francisco ("City") Municipal Code Chapter 4.04 governs the City's purchasing processes; and
WHEREAS, Government Code section 6500 et. seq. permits California public agencies and other public entities nationwide to jointly exercise any power common to them, including their purchasing powers; and
WHEREAS, Section 4.04.040 of Chapter 4.04 authorizes the City to "piggyback" on governmental contracts by utilizing contracts and terms that have been negotiated by another governmental agency as long as that agency has used a quote or bid process that substantially conforms to state law-mandated procedures and provisions of Chapter 4.04; however, it excludes "public projects" as defined by the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act (Public Contract Code section 22000 et seq.) ("the Act") from being able to piggyback on such contracts; and
WHEREAS, the Act provides for alternative informal bidding procedures for qualifying public works projects under applicable dollar thresholds set by the Act and as may be adjusted by inflation from time to time, and the City currently utilizes such alternative bidding procedures; and
WHEREAS, staff recommends that Section 4.04.040 be amended to allow public projects to also utilize piggybacking if the other governmental contract has been competitively bid out in accordance with Public Contract Code and Municipal Code requirements; and
WHEREAS, amendment to Section 4.04.040 would permit the City to utilize cooperative purchasing mechanisms between public agencies, such as the Job Order Contract (JOC) process for repetitive, recurring public works projects, as long as such process is just as or more competitive than the procedures required by the Public Contract ...
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