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Council narrows proposed purchasing-policy delegation; keeps $100,000 council review threshold
Summary
City staff proposed increasing administrative procurement thresholds and raising the council approval limit to $200,000 to speed projects. After debate, council amended the ordinance to retain the $100,000 council approval threshold and approved other purchasing-policy changes to speed procurement.
City staff presented a proposed revision to the city's purchasing policy to streamline procurement timelines and reflect recent state law changes that raised sealed-bid thresholds. The staff package proposed: raising the sealed-bid limit from $50,000 to $100,000 (to match recent legislation), moving the general services approval threshold from $15,000 to $30,000, and increasing the city council approval limit from $100,000 to $200,000. Staff said the changes would cut average requisition-to-award cycle time from roughly 78 days to as…
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