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New Office of Procurement asks commission to update charter language to reflect centralization and signature authority
Summary
Procurement officials briefed the commission on executive orders and a recent council bill that centralized procurement authority under a purchasing agent; they requested charter edits to formalize the purchasing agent's signature authority, update competitive-bidding language, and add references to the SPEED electronic procurement system.
Representatives from the newly established Office of Procurement told the Charter Review Commission on Feb. 4 that recent executive orders and county legislation centralized procurement authority and that the charter should be updated to reflect those changes.
The procurement director (speaker did not state a full name on the record) said an April 2024 executive order established the Office of Procurement as a stand-alone agency and that subsequent executive actions (including an order…
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