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City Bureau of Contract Administration outlines community-level contracting, local preference rules for public works
Summary
Bureau of Contract Administration officials described local business certification, community-level contracting benches for sidewalks and small architectural services, and metrics showing use by first-time and local contractors. The report was verbal; no action was required.
Raul Mendoza, assistant director of the Bureau of Contract Administration, and Linda McGlinchey, compliance program manager II, told the Public Works Committee on Oct. 27 that the bureau is expanding efforts to make city public-works contracts accessible to small and local firms.
Mendoza said the bureau enforces the city's certification program and applies local business bid preferences under Measure BB and the city charter when construction contracts are competitively bid. "If you bid a hundred thousand dollars on a project, you get a 10% bid preference, and now your bid competes as if it were a…
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