3.16.140 Selection of contractors to perform public projects.
   A.   The city shall maintain a list of qualified contractors, identified according to categories of work. Minimum criteria for development and maintenance of the contractors list shall be determined by the California Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission.
   B.   All contractors on the list for the category of work being bid and/or all construction trade journals specified in Section 22036 shall be mailed a notice inviting informal bids unless the product or service is proprietary.
   C.   All mailing of notices to contractors and construction trade journals pursuant to subdivision (B) shall be completed not less than ten calendar days before bids are due.
   D.   The notice inviting informal bids shall describe the project in general terms, how to obtain more detailed information about the project, and state the time and place for the submission of bids.
(Ord. 556 (part), 1989).