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Bellflower amends public-works rules: design-build, best-value and prevailing wage limits shifted under charter
Summary
Council adopted urgency changes to the municipal code to let the city use best-value procurement, allow design-build for projects of any size, and narrow where prevailing wage applies, implementing powers from the new city charter.
The Bellflower City Council on Monday approved an urgency ordinance and introduced a related ordinance that substantially rewrites the city’s public works contracting rules to implement the new city charter.
City staff and the city attorney told the council the amendments would let Bellflower use best-value procurement rather than awarding strictly to the lowest responsible bidder, permit design-build delivery for public projects of any size, and clarify when prevailing wages must be paid.
“Just as a general law…
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