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Committee backs amendments to modernize Chapter 6 contracting rules, debates emergency-notice and threshold changes
Summary
The committee voted to forward an ordinance to comprehensively revise Chapter 6 of the Administrative Code, adopting Budget Analyst amendments on notice, emergency procedure reporting and LBE outreach while approving a proposal to add sole-source construction provisions and raise the contracting threshold to $600,000.
The Government and Oversight Committee on Thursday recommended that the Board of Supervisors consider an ordinance to comprehensively revise Chapter 6 of the Administrative Code, which governs the selection and contracting process for the city’s public-works and capital projects.
Department of Public Works and controller’s office staff told the committee a cross-agency working group produced recommendations to modernize procurement processes, including a proposed sole-source provision for construction contracts, a change in selection weighting for construction-manager/general-contractor (CM/GC) and design-build contracts from at least 65% cost/35% non-cost to 40% cost/60% non-cost, and an…
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