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(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.
Every officer or board of the City government that has the authority to enter into contracts on behalf of the City of Los Angeles shall make and present to the Office of Administrative and Research Services an annual report relative to contracts awarded during the year involving an expenditure of more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00). Said reports shall include such information and be in the format established by the Office of Administrative and Research Services. The Office of Administrative and Research Services shall consolidate the information and submit it in a report to the City Council.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 140,843, Eff. 9-28-70.
Amended by: Ord. No. 153,898, Eff. 7-13-80; Ord. No. 173,186, Eff. 5-22-00; Ord. No. 173,285, Eff. 6-26-00, Oper. 7-1-00.
(a) Whenever any department, including proprietary department, board or officer, proposes to amend a contract to extend the term of the agreement and the resulting amended contract would be subject to Council approval due to the length of its term, or proposes to replace an existing contractor with a new contractor and the new agreement would be subject to Council approval due to the length of its term, the department, including proprietary department, board or officer, with responsibility for administration of the contract, shall submit a report to the City Council, with a copy to the Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services, as soon as possible after the department, board or officer, including proprietary department, is aware of the need for a long term contract but in no event less than twelve months prior to expiration of the contract. The report shall include information about the service to be contracted; name of the current contractor; expiration date of the contract; and general description of the plan for renewal or replacement of the contractor, including planned time lines.
(b) Commencing July 1, 2000, the Office of Administrative and Research Services, shall at the beginning of each calendar year, the beginning of each fiscal year, and more often if deemed necessary by the Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services, compile a listing of all reports received from each department, board or officer, on long term contracts covered by this ordinance which will be subject to renewal during the ensuing calendar year, and provide it to the City Council.
SECTION HISTORY
Article and Section Added by Ord. No. 173,178, Eff. 5-14-00.
Nothing in this article shall be deemed or construed as preventing the City Council, or a Board of Commissioners in the case of those departments having control of their own revenues and funds, from entering into contracts for the performance of work when it is determined by the City Council or the Board of Commissioners that such work can be performed more economically or feasibly by independent contractors than by City employees. The authority of the City Council set forth in this section may be delegated to departments and officers of the City under such rules and procedures as the City Council may prescribe. Nothing in this section shall limit the application of Sections 370 to 378 of the City Charter relating to contracts and competitive bidding for contracts.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Charter Section 126.
Amended by: Ord. No. 154,252, Eff. 9-11-80; Ord. No. 173,285, Eff. 6-26-00, Oper. 7-1-00.
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