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Committee advances amended procurement ordinance to remove mandatory cost weighting for some construction contracts
Summary
Supervisor Rafael Mandelman told the Rules Committee the ordinance responds to two civil grand jury reports and would let departments weigh cost and non-cost factors case-by-case for CMGC contracts; the committee advanced the cost-weighting change to the full board and held the separate past-performance/database requirement for further discussion.
The Rules Committee voted April 10 to forward an amended ordinance to the full board that removes a mandatory cost criterion for awarding construction manager/general contractor (CMGC) contracts and gives departments discretion to weigh cost and non-cost factors on a case-by-case basis.
Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, sponsor of the legislation, said the proposal bundles recommendations from two civil grand jury reports (June 2021 and April 2022) addressing capital-project delivery problems, including the Van Ness BRT. Mandelman said the first change would "remove the mandatory cost criterion in awarding construction management general contractor…
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