Procedures, rules and regulations governing the solicitation, selection and award of proposals or bids for the furnishing of personal services or professional or consulting services or for other contractual services, the contracts for which may be awarded without observing the bidding procedures provided for in this chapter, shall be as set forth in the city’s purchasing procedures, as may be amended from time to time. Such procedures, rules and regulations shall have as one purpose the obtaining of contractual services of the highest quality together with cost effectiveness. Where the selection of private architectural, landscape architectural, professional engineering, environmental, land surveying, and construction project management services is involved, such procedures shall ensure services are engaged on the basis of demonstrated competence and qualifications for the types of services to be performed and at fair and reasonable prices to the city, in compliance with the requirements of Government Code Section 4526. Contracts for services over seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) shall be awarded by the city council.
(Ord. 567-21 Exhibit A, 2021; Ord. 3 § 1 (part), 1991: prior code § 3.12.280)