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Lake County waives formal bidding and approves $339,915 training contract with UC Davis for social-services staff
Summary
The board approved an exemption to the formal bidding process under county ordinance 3137 §2-38.1 and authorized a one-year, $339,915 contract with the University of California (UC Davis) for training services for Lake County social-services staff for fiscal year 2025–26.
The Lake County Board of Supervisors approved a waiver of the county's formal bidding process and authorized a one-year training contract with the University of California, Davis, for $339,915 to cover fiscal year 2025–26 (July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026).
Social Services Director Rachel Dillman Parsons told the board that Lake County has contracted with UC Davis for more than 20 years for adaptive human-services curriculum and continuing professional education. Parsons said the proposed contract does not increase costs over fiscal year 2024–25 and that county staff worked with county administration to confirm the procurement exemption under county ordinance 3137, section 2-38.1, which permits extension of annual agreements as an exception to a request-for-proposals requirement.
"We did go out to bid in 2022," Parsons said. She told the board the county solicited proposals from 26 nearby educational institutions, including Yuba, Woodland, Mendocino and Sonoma, and received no responses. Parsons said the county believes other colleges cannot provide the same comprehensive curriculum UC Davis has developed through contracts with multiple counties and that it would be infeasible for a single college to develop similar material for Lake County alone.
Based on that justification, the board voted to waive the formal bidding process under Ordinance 3137 §2-38.1 and to approve the contract between the County of Lake and the University of California for training services in the amount of $339,915 for the period July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. The transcript records passage by voice vote; no roll-call tally was included.
Board members did not record additional conditions, contingencies, or amendments in the meeting transcript. County staff indicated the contract term is for one fiscal year and that the procurement exception relies on the vendor’s specialized curriculum and the lack of responsive proposals to the 2022 RFP.
Implementation and payment details, including exact funding sources within the county budget, were not specified in the transcript. Any required contract documents will be executed by the chair per the board’s authorization.
