(A) The City Council shall contract for and purchase, or issue purchase authorization for, all supplies, materials and equipment for the operation of the municipal government. Before the purchase of, or contract for, any supplies, materials or equipment, or the sale of any surplus or obsolete supplies, materials or equipment, ample opportunity for competitive bidding, under the regulations and with the exceptions as the City Council may prescribe, shall be given.
(B) CONTRACTUAL SERVICES, for the purposes of this subchapter, shall mean services performed for the city by persons not in the employ of the city and may include the use of equipment or the furnishing of commodities in connection with the services under express or implied contract. CONTRACTUAL SERVICES shall include travel, freight, express, parcel post, postage, telephone, telegraph, utilities, rents, printing and binding, repairs, alterations and maintenance of buildings, equipment, streets, bridges and other physical facilities of the city.
(C) Subject to the provisions of this section, surplus or obsolete supplies, materials or equipment belonging to the city may be sold by the City Manager.
(D) No sale shall be made under this section until the City Council has declared the supplies, materials or equipment involved to be surplus or obsolete. The City Manager may, without Council approval and without advertising for bids as provided for in division (E) below, dispose of the remnants of consumable items such as used batteries, tires and other material which is of no further use to the city upon terms determined by the City Manager to be the most economically advantageous to the city.
(E) Except as may otherwise be provided, the city shall advertise any sale under this section in a newspaper of general circulation in the city or county, or in another manner as deemed necessary to adequately reach prospective buyers to give them an opportunity to make bids. All bids shall be sealed and opened in public at a designated time and place, except when the sale is by auction. The City Council may repeatedly reject all bids and advertise again. The city shall sell the supplies, materials and equipment to the highest responsible bidder and, if necessary, shall cast lots in case of a tie to determine to whom to sell.
(F) (1) The City Manager, subject to any regulations which the City Council may prescribe, shall contract for and purchase, or issue purchase authorization for, all supplies, materials and equipment for the offices, departments and agencies of the municipal government.
(2) Every contract or purchase exceeding $50,000 shall require the prior approval of the City Council. The City Manager may also transfer to or between offices, departments and agencies or sell surplus or obsolete supplies, materials and equipment, subject to the regulations as the City Council may prescribe.
(G) The City Council may, by resolution, transfer some or all of the power granted to the City Manager in division (E) above to the Purchasing Officer appointed by the City Manager.
(2002 Code, § 34.01) (Ord. 273-A, passed 1-8-1990; Ord. 606, passed 8-27-2007; Ord. 932, passed 2-27-2023)
Statutory reference:
Authority, see 11 O.S. § 10-116