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Forsyth County staff propose clarifications to procurement policy, urge inclusive contracting
Summary
Finance staff presented updates to the county procurement policy to clarify thresholds and approval flows, tighten emergency exceptions, and encourage departmental planning; commissioners asked for a short delay to refine specifications and urged stronger inclusion of historically underutilized businesses with input from the NC HUB office.
Terry Goodman, Forsyth County chief financial officer, presented a revised county procurement policy at the Nov. 17 briefing. Goodman said the update makes few substantive policy changes but clarifies language, changes how departments aggregate spend with a vendor when applying threshold rules, clarifies bidding requirements for service…
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