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Cobb County staff propose raising sealed-bid threshold to $250,000; commissioners press for transparency
Summary
Procurement Services proposed cleaning up procurement code language and raising the formal sealed-bid threshold from $50,000 to $250,000 to align with state and federal levels. Commissioners asked whether the change would also raise the county manager’s approval authority and pressed for improved reporting on manager-approved purchases.
Cobb County procurement officials proposed code amendments Oct. 28 to modernize Chapter 2 and raise the county's formal sealed-bid threshold to $250,000. Roger Ball, director of Procurement Services, said the changes consolidate existing procurement-policy exceptions into the county code, update the department name to "Procurement Services" and add state-law references. The substantive change would increase the sealed-bid threshold from $50,000 to $250,000 to align with recent changes in Georgia and federal procurement practice.
Ball told the Board the county has not…
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