Contracts which by their nature are not adapted to award by competitive bidding, such as but not limited to contracts for the services of individuals possessing a high degree of professional skill where the ability or fitness of the individual plays an important part, contracts for supplies, materials, parts, or equipment which are available only from a single source, contracts for printing or engraving of bonds, water certificates, tax warrants, and other evidences of indebtedness, contracts for utility services such as water, light, heat, telephone, or telegraph, and contracts for the purchase of magazines, books, periodicals, and similar articles of an educational or instructional nature, and the binding of the magazines, books, periodicals, pamphlets, reports, and similar articles, shall not be subject to the competitive bidding requirements of this subchapter. Further, the city may procure from any federal, state, or local government unit or agency thereof the materials, supplies, commodities, or equipment as may be made available through the operation of any legislation heretofore or hereafter enacted without conforming to the competitive bidding requirements of this subchapter. Regular employment contracts in the city’s service shall not be subject to the provisions of this subchapter, nor shall this subchapter be applicable to the granting or issuance, pursuant to powers conferred by laws, ordinances, or resolutions, of franchises, licenses, permits, or other authorizations by the city, or by departments, offices, institutions, boards, commissions, agencies, or other instrumentalities thereof, nor to contracts or transactions, other than the sale or lease of personal property, pursuant to which the city is the recipient of money. The city may sell or cause to be loaned, with proper surety, materials common only to the city water distribution system, to the corporations and individuals, upon a proper showing that they are unable to obtain these materials for the purpose of obtaining water from the water system, or while awaiting shipment from manufacturers or vendors of the material, provided, the proper charges for the sale of the material shall be made to an extent as to save the city from monetary losses in the transactions.
(1983 Code, § 2-224) (Ord. 2395, passed 4-5-1984)