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Auditor-Controller: local vendors captured more than half of procurement dollars; new SLUB online system launches
Summary
The Auditor-Controller reported cumulative payments of about $5.17 billion (2009'Mar 2025) with roughly 52% to local vendors and detailed improvements to the SLUB/SLAB certification and SLED database, including a fully online application and an EBIA event to promote vendor access.
A representative from the Auditor-Controller's Office (identified in committee discussion as Laura) presented the quarterly procurement report showing cumulative payments from 2009 through March 31, 2025. "The total payments were $5,170,000,000," she said, and noted that about 52% of cumulative payments went to local contractors. For payments up to $500,000, the presenter said $2.3 billion represented 45% of total payments, and 58.8% of those payments went to local contractors.
The nut graf: The Auditor-Controller's report shows a rising share of local procurement dollars in goods and services, driven in part by the county's use of small-contract preferences and the SLAB database; the office also launched an improved online SLUB certification and will co-host East Bay Interagency Alliance events this week to help local vendors.
Susan Waywitzer, from the Auditor-Controller's office, described a new fully online SLUB certification workflow that allows applicants to start and pause applications, prepopulate fields, and automatically update the SLED database on approval. She said phase two will automate certification letters and work toward interfacing SLUB with the county's AlcoLink financial supplier database.
Supervisors asked what drove the improved local share for goods and services (Auditor: smaller contract thresholds and the SLAB policy directing smaller procurements to SLAB vendors; reduced COVID emergency procurements also contributed). Supervisors also asked about the pending disparity study and when the report will change; staff said the report redesign is tied to the disparity study and is awaiting county counsel review, and the disparity study update will be agendized for the committee's September meeting.
The committee welcomed the new online tools and the Auditor-Controller said an EBIA event would take place the next day to present shared certification processes and contracting opportunities across regional agencies.
