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Bowie council moves purchasing rules from charter into city code; raises competitive-bidding threshold
Summary
The City Council adopted a charter amendment resolution and an ordinance to shift purchasing provisions from the city charter into the Bowie City Code and raise the competitive-bidding threshold, saying the change will make future procurement updates administratively easier.
The Bowie City Council on Sept. 2 adopted a charter amendment resolution and a companion ordinance that move purchasing provisions from the city charter into the city code and raise the city’s competitive-bidding threshold.
City officials said the change is intended to allow the council to update purchasing procedures by ordinance in the future rather than through the slower charter-amendment process. “What this will enable the city to do is in future times when we’re looking at making amendments to our purchasing procedures, it’ll be a little bit easier administratively and legislatively for the council,” the deputy city manager said during the presentation.
The council first approved charter amendment resolution CAR-2-25, described on the agenda as amending Section 61 (purchasing and contracting) and Section 62 (cooperative bidding) of the city charter to authorize the city council to set purchasing requirements and procedures by ordinance. No members of the public…
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