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Upper Arlington highlights procurement reforms, hires purchasing assistant and expands vendor outreach
Summary
City procurement staff described code updates, new SOPs and vendor outreach that added dozens of new vendors; staff urged an end‑to‑end document management system and said a purchasing assistant will be hired to support the city’s procurement workload.
Val Piccinini, the city’s procurement professional, told Upper Arlington City Council on Feb. 2 that a multi‑year effort to modernize contracting has produced updated procurement code, a standard operating procedures manual and a program to track small‑business spend.
Piccinini said the changes followed a Matrix Consulting review and her review after joining the city in 2021. She described raising delegated purchasing thresholds, requiring documented quotes for purchases under the former $40,000 threshold and…
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