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Committee advances wide-ranging procurement and contract-reform ordinance to full board
Summary
The Budget and Finance Committee voted 3-0 to forward amended legislation that would reorganize procurement rules, set dollar thresholds tied to statutory competitive- bidding amounts, reinstate the sweat-free procurement advisory group and remove planned sunsets on related nondiscrimination and procurement provisions.
Committee chair Supervisor Connie Chan on Wednesday moved the Budget and Finance Committee to amend and forward to the full Board of Supervisors an ordinance that would reorganize multiple sections of the City’s administrative and labor codes governing procurement and contractor nondiscrimination.
The amendments — accepted by the committee and supported in public comment — would create a procurement legislative analysis authority for the City Administrator, set threshold dollar amounts tied to the statutorily based minimum competitive amount, reorganize and narrow coverage of several procurement chapters, restore the sweat-free procurement advisory group, retain no-property wage provisions and remove several sunset dates the ordinance previously included. The committee voted 3-0 to forward the amended ordinance with a positive…
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