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Jefferson County unveils overhaul of purchasing policy to align systems, cap change orders and clarify ethics
Summary
County procurement leaders proposed a rewritten purchasing policy to align approval thresholds with Workday, cap change orders at 10% of original contract value, designate a single protests recipient and strengthen conflict‑of‑interest rules.
Mary O’Neil, director of grants and procurement, and Vera Brakeman, purchasing operations manager, briefed the Board of County Commissioners on a multi-year rewrite of the county’s purchasing policy. The policy — last updated in 2019 — was revised after cross‑departmental stakeholder work over roughly two years.
O’Neil described the primary goals as alignment, efficiency and clarification. Among the…
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