DATE: August 6, 2019
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Steven E. White, Director
Department of Public Works and Planning
SUBJECT: Contractor Pre-Qualification and Appeal Procedure for Performance of Certain Public Construction Projects
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Approve Contractor Pre-qualification and Appeal Procedure for pre-qualification of contractors for eligibility to bid to perform certain public construction projects, per California Public Contract Code; and authorize the Director of the Department of Public Works and Planning, upon review and approval by County Counsel as to legal form, to update the procedure, as necessary.
REPORT
Approval of the recommended action will approve a mechanism compliant with California Public Contract Code requirements that enables the Department of Public Works and Planning to conduct pre-qualification procedures for certain public works construction projects and establishes an associated appeal process. The procedure is intended to apply to projects which, at the sole discretion of the Department's Director, are determined to be particularly complex or require specialized experience. This item is countywide.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
If the recommended action is not approved, the County's procedure for contractor eligibility to bid on certain public construction projects will not be established.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no increase in Net County Cost associated with the recommended action; however, the actual implementation of the procedure on certain public construction projects would result in some actual and potential impacts on the cost of specific projects. Pre-qualification would result in an actual increase in departmental staff costs during the bidding phase of a specific project. There may be potential savings in project management costs during the construction phase, due to the elimination of contractors from the bidding pool who do not meet the pre-qualification scoring requirements for a spec...
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