§ 2-201. Micro and small procurements.

(a)

Micro procurements of up to $3,000.00. Procurements of goods or services of a value up to but not including $3,000.00 shall be authorized to be made by the director of the county department which seeks or needs such goods or services on the open market without bid. Procurements shall be made with notice to and in cooperation with the procurement department. To the extent practicable, the county will distribute such procurements equitably among qualified suppliers. Procurements pursuant to this subsection may be awarded without soliciting competitive quotations if the county considers the price to be reasonable. In the case of acquisition of construction services subject to the David-Bacon Act, the maximum threshold for micro procurement pursuant to this subsection will be $2,000.00.

(b)

Small procurements of $3,000.00 up to and including $19,999.99. Procurements of goods or services of a value of $3,000.00 or more up to $19,999.99, shall be authorized by the procurement coordinator or the county coordinator. Such procurements shall be based on the solicitation of price or rate quotations, such solicitation to be made by the procurement coordinator or the department which seeks or needs the goods or services in cooperation with the procurement coordinator. Price or rate quotations shall be obtained from an adequate number of qualified sources, in any event no fewer than three if three are possible. Award shall be made on the basis of lowest and best quotation to the lowest responsive, responsible bidder or quoter submitting a quote. The names of all bidders or quoters submitting quotations, and the date and amount of each quotation, shall be maintained as a public record.

(c)

Dividing procurements not allowed. Requirements for procurement procedures and grants of authority contained in this section shall not be avoided or manipulated by artificially dividing goods or services into components that will lessen the requirements or level of authority that would be required if the goods or services were not so artificially divided.

(Ord. No. 2018-005 , § 2, 10-2-2018)