(a) “Awarding Authority” means any Board or Commission of the City of Los Angeles, or any employee or officer of the City of Los Angeles, that is authorized to award or enter into any contract as defined herein, on behalf of the City of Los Angeles, and shall include departments having control of their own funds and which adopt policies consonant with the provisions of this article.
(b) “Contract” means any agreement for the performance of any work or service, the provision of any goods, equipment, materials or supplies, or the rendition of any service to the City or to the public, or the grant of City financial assistance or a public lease or license, which is let, awarded or entered into by or on behalf of the City of Los Angeles. Contracts for services and for purchasing goods and products that involve a value in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) and a term in excess of three months are covered by this Article. Construction contracts are covered by this Article without regard to contract amount and term.
(c) “Contractor” means any person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or any combination thereof, which enters into a Contract with any awarding authority of the City of Los Angeles and includes a recipient of City financial assistance and a public lessee or licensee.
(d) “Subcontractor” means any person not an employee who enters into a contract with a contractor to assist the contractor in performing a contract, including a contractor or subcontractor of a public lessee or licensee or sublessee or sublicensee, to perform or assist in performing services on the leased or licensed premises. The term subcontractor does not include vendors or suppliers to City purchasing contractors, unless the purchasing contract is for the purchase of garments such as uniforms or other apparel.
(e) “Bidder” means any person or entity that applies for any contract whether or not the application process is through an Invitation for Bid, Request for Proposal, Request for Qualifications or other procurement process.
(f) “Bid” means any application submitted by a bidder in response to an Invitation for Bid, Request for Proposal or Request for Qualifications or other procurement process.
(g) “Invitation for Bid” means the process through which the City solicits Bids including Requests for Proposals and Requests for Qualifications.
(h) “City Financial Assistance Recipient” means any person who receives from the City discrete financial assistance in the amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) or more for economic development or job growth expressly articulated and identified by the City, as contrasted with generalized financial assistance such as through tax legislation.
Categories of such assistance shall include, but are not limited to, bond financing, planning assistance, tax increment financing exclusively by the City, and tax credits, and shall not include assistance provided by the Community Development Bank. City staff assistance shall not be regarded as financial assistance for purposes of this article. A loan shall not be regarded as financial assistance. The forgiveness of a loan shall be regarded as financial assistance. A loan shall be regarded as financial assistance to the extent of any differential between the amount of the loan and the present value of the payments thereunder, discounted over the life of the loan by the applicable federal rate as used in 26 U.S.C. Sections 1274(d), 7872(f). A recipient shall not be deemed to include lessees and sublessees.
(i) “Public Lease or License” means a lease or license of City property as defined in the Living Wage Ordinance, Section 10.37 et seq. of Article 11, Chapter 1 of Division 10 of the Los Angeles Administrative Code.
(j) “Designated Administrative Agency (DAA)” means the Department of Public Works, Bureau of Contract Administration who shall bear administrative responsibilities under this article.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 173,677, Eff. 1-14-01.
Amended by: Subsec. (j), Ord. No. 176,155, Eff. 9-22-04; Subsec. (j), Ord. No. 176,283, Eff. 12-25-04, Oper. 9-22-04; Subsec. (b), Ord. No. 176,292, Eff. 1-1-05.