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GSA reports higher local contractor participation, highlights CTAP support
Summary
GSA presented quarter procurement totals showing a majority of some contract dollars going to local firms, summarized construction award data and described outreach and the county contractor technical assistance program (CTAP), which provides coaching and bonding support to small local contractors.
The General Services Agency told the Procurement & Contracting Committee on Nov. 17 that its recent procurements showed improving local participation and outlined outreach and contractor support efforts intended to widen competition.
Director Kimberly Gassaway said GSA administered 33 formal procurements in the quarter cited, with a majority of value going to certified small local and emerging businesses in several categories. She also reported numerous waivers, exemptions and piggyback procurements and noted GSA is tracking contract inventories that the law identifies as higher risk for wage-theft exposure.
Doug Bond, deputy director of GSA’s Building Maintenance Department, described the county’s Qualified Contractors List for informal construction solicitations (contracts up to $220,000 under the state-aligned threshold). Bond said the list had 342 contractors signed up as of October and that informal and job-order contracting in 2025 so far has directed about 65% of combined informal contract dollars to local firms.
Jennifer Elmore of Meriwether & Williams presented the Alameda County Contractor Technical Assistance Program (CTAP), which provides one-on-one coaching, bid-document review, bonding support and training. Elmore said CTAP has supported hundreds of contractors with outreach, training and financial/bonding assistance and partners with Pacific Community Ventures on a working-capital loan product to help contractors secure and perform county work. She said CTAP’s services for contractors are provided at no cost to enrolled firms.
Supervisors encouraged broader outreach. Supervisor Marquez asked staff to produce a flyer supervisors can share to recruit contractors to CTAP; Elmore said the firm would work with GSA to provide materials promptly.
GSA noted that some larger construction delivery methods (progressive design-build and design-build) remain large-dollar procurements — for example a progressive design-build at Santa Rita Jail was cited at about $129 million in the period presented — but that project labor and community-benefit tracking shows improvement on local hire and apprentice measures across GSA projects.
Next steps: GSA will circulate implementation and outreach materials and continue to report procurement metrics to the committee; staff also will return with any additional analyses supervisors request (for example, more visible trend charts by five-year windows).
