HomeMy WebLinkAbout54-092RESOLUTION NO. 5~-92 ESTABLISHING THE PROCEDURES FOR
ADVERTISING AND OPENING SE~.Fm BIDS
WHEREAS, the business of the City Council can be materially simplified
and expedited by a procedure wherein authorized sealed bids would be opened,
tabulated and investigated prior to the regular Council meetings; and
WHEREAS, in many instances delays of two or more weeks in the determi-
nation of award and the resultant beginning of capital outlay projects can be
eliminated by such change of procedure;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That pending the adoption of an
ordinance defining the functions and procedures of the centralized purchasing
system for the City, procurement of materials, supplies or services requiring
the filing of sealed bids shall be accomplished in accordance with the following
procedures:
(a) The City Manager shall obtain from the City Council, by Minute
Order entered in the minutes of the Council, permission to purchase
said materials, supplies or services costing $2,000.00 or more.
(b) Such permission to purchase having been granted by the City
Council, the Purchasing Agent shall place the necessary legal advertis-
ing.
(c) The bids received shall be publicly opened in the office of
the Purchasing Agent at lO:O0 A.M. on the morning of the City Council
meeting, the date, place and time for such public opening of bids to be
stated in the public advertisement.
(d) The bids shall be tabulated, summarized and studied in con-
formance with procedures to be established by the City Manager, and
the City Manager shall at the Council meeting on said day report the
tabulation of bids and findings as to the lowest and best bid.
(e) The City Council shall thereupon consider the report of the
City Manager and act upon the denial or award of bids as they shall
determine.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana
at its regular meeting held on the 21st day of June, 1954.
ATTEST:
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
I, E~MA ~ELW. R, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of the Council
of the City of Santa Aha; that the foregoing Resolution was regularly intro-
duced to said Council at its regular meeting held on the 21st day of June,
1954 and was at said meeting regularly passed and adopted by the following
vote, to-wit:
COUNCILMEn: William Jerome, J. L. McBride, Thomas F. Larsen,
Milford W. Dahl, Courtney R. Chandler
NOES, COUNCII~: None
ABSRNT, COUNCII2~: None
(SEAL) cLERK OF THE COUNCIL