(1) Pursuant to Charter Section 375, contracting authorities issuing bid specifications or requests for proposals for the purchase of services or goods may prequalify bidders or proposers by utilizing the criteria listed herein when the contracting authority makes a written finding that utilizing such a process would benefit the City.
(2) Contracting authorities may inquire into the following areas to ascertain whether a bidder or proposer is qualified to provide services or goods to the City.
(a) Relevant experience in providing specialized services.
(b) Financial ability to complete the work on a major project.
(c) Bonding capability.
(d) Safety violations record.
(e) Evidence of a denial of prequalification or award of contract, disbarment, or other irregularities with respect to any federal, state, or local government or procurement agencies.
(3) Contracting authorities shall in all instances include item (a) above as one of the prequalification criteria and may use all or some of the other criteria in determining whether a potential bidder or proposer is “prequalified” to submit a bid or proposal which the contracting authority has solicited.
(4) Contracting authorities electing to prequalify bidders or proposers must clearly state in the bid specifications or request for proposals that such a procedure will be utilized, the criteria which will be applied and the information and other evidence which must be submitted. The bid specifications or request for proposal shall also state the specific facts demonstrating that the utilization of this process would benefit the City.
(5) The City reserves the right not to prequalify any bidder or proposer when there is substantial evidence to indicate that the bidder or proposer is not qualified to provide the required services to the City.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Charter Sec. 388.
Deleted by Ord. No. 170,313, Eff. 3-3-95, Oper. 4-25-95.
Re-added by Ord. No. 173,271, Eff. 6-25-00, Oper. 7-1-00.