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Council supports raising procurement thresholds and bond minimums to reduce bureaucracy for small projects
Summary
Staff proposed raising informal and formal procurement thresholds and increasing the bond requirement threshold to ease procurement for small contractors; council signaled support and staff will bring an ordinance for adoption.
Chris Wilson, assistant city staff, introduced a review of the city’s purchasing ordinance and said thresholds had not kept pace with inflation since 2018.
Sean Sadler, purchasing manager, recommended increasing the field‑purchase limit from $5,000 to $10,000, consolidating the small‑purchase tiers and raising the threshold for formal sealed bids and professional‑services selection committees to $60,000. He…
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