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Ordinance amending Title 4, Chapter 4.04 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code pertaining to purchasing procedures and informal bidding.
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WHEREAS, California law generally requires all public works contracts over the amount of $5,000 be competitively bid;
WHEREAS, the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act (the "Act") provides a set of alternate, informal bidding procedure that municipalities may utilize it they have adopted the Act's accounting procedures; and
WHEREAS, the City of South San Francisco ("City") has opted in to adopt the Act's accounting procedures and has adopted an informal bidding procedures ordinance under Chapter 4.04 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code to utilize the bidding procedure under the Act; and
WHEREAS, Prior to January 1, 2019, the Act authorizes public projects of $45,000 or less to be let without competitive bidding and be performed by force account, authorizes public projects of $175,000 or less to be let by informal bidding procedures, and requires public projects of more than $175,000 to be let by formal bidding procedures; and
WHEREAS, the Act also permits participating public agencies, in the event all bids received for the performance of a public project are in excess of $175,000, to award the contract at $187,500 or less to the lowest responsible bidder if it determines its cost estimate was reasonable; and
WHEREAS, Assembly Bill 2249 ("AB 2249") was passed in 2018 and became effective on January 1, 2019, and amended the dollar thresholds for the above-stated informal bidding options; and
WHEREAS, before AB 2249, the Act permitted participating public agencies, in the event all informal bids received for the performance of a public project are in excess of $175,000, to award the contract at $187,500 or less to the lowest responsible bidder if it determines its cost estimate was reasonable; and
WHEREAS, AB 2249, effective January 1, 2019, increased monetary bid limit thresholds, e...
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