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• California Public Contract Code Section 100
  The Legislature finds and declares that placing all public contract law in one code will make that law clearer and easier to find. Further, it...
• California Public Contract Code Section 101
  California public contract law should be efficient and the product of the best of modern practice and research.
• California Public Contract Code Section 102
  To encourage competition for public contracts and to aid public officials in the efficient administration of public contracting, to the maximum extent possible, for similar...
• California Public Contract Code Section 1100
  "Public entity," as used in this part, means the state, county, city, city and county, district, public authority, public agency, municipal corporation, or any other...
• California Public Contract Code Section 1100.7
  This code is the basis of contracts between most public entities in this state and their contractors and subcontractors. With regard to charter cities, this...
• California Public Contract Code Section 1101
  "Public works contract," as used in this part, means an agreement for the erection, construction, alteration, repair, or improvement of any public structure, building, road,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 1102
  "Emergency," as used in this code, means a sudden, unexpected occurrence that poses a clear and imminent danger, requiring immediate action to prevent or mitigate...
• California Public Contract Code Section 1103
  "Responsible bidder," as used in this part, means a bidder who has demonstrated the attribute of trustworthiness, as well as quality, fitness, capacity, and experience...
• California Public Contract Code Section 1104
  No local public entity, charter city, or charter county shall require a bidder to assume responsibility for the completeness and accuracy of architectural or engineering...
• California Public Contract Code Section 1600
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, counties, a city and county, and state agencies may enter into and make payment on contracts by way of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 1601
  (a) Any public entity may adopt methods and procedures to do any of the following: (1) Receive bids on public works or other contracts over...
• California Public Contract Code Section 2000
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law requiring a local agency to award contracts to the lowest responsible bidder, any local agency may require that...
• California Public Contract Code Section 2001
  (a) Any local agency, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 2000, that requires that contracts be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder meeting, or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 2002
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law requiring a local agency to award contracts to the lowest responsible bidder, any local agency may do any...
• California Public Contract Code Section 2050
  It is the intent of the Legislature that any awarding department shall accept for purposes of public contract work any state or local agency certification...
• California Public Contract Code Section 2051
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Awarding department" means any state agency, department, governmental entity, including the California State University, or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 2052
  (a) All awarding departments and local agencies shall accept a certification by any participating state agency whose certification criteria complies with Part 23 of Title...
• California Public Contract Code Section 2053
  (a) A participating state or local agency shall certify a business enterprise as a minority or women business enterprise if that business enterprise meets the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 2054
  (a) The department shall develop and make available to all awarding departments and local agencies a directory of all state and local agencies participating in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 2055
  A participating state or local agency may challenge the certification of a business enterprise made by another participating state or local agency as follows: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 2056
  (a) The department shall establish and administer a computerized databank containing a list of certified minority, women, and disadvantaged business enterprises. On or before July...
• California Public Contract Code Section 2057
  This chapter shall not apply to any professional services contract subject to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 16850) of Part 3 of Division 4 of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 3300
  (a) Any public entity, as defined in Section 1100, the University of California, and the California State University shall specify the classification of the contractor's...
• California Public Contract Code Section 3400
  (a) No agency of the state, nor any political subdivision, municipal corporation, or district, nor any public officer or person charged with the letting of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 3410
  Any public entity, as defined in Section 1100, including any school district or community college district, when purchasing food, shall give preference to United States-grown...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4100
  This chapter may be cited as the "Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act."
• California Public Contract Code Section 4101
  The Legislature finds that the practices of bid shopping and bid peddling in connection with the construction, alteration, and repair of public improvements often result...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4103
  Nothing in this chapter limits or diminishes any rights or remedies, either legal or equitable, which: (a) An original or substituted subcontractor may have against...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4104
  Any officer, department, board or commission taking bids for the construction of any public work or improvement shall provide in the specifications prepared for the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4104.5
  (a) The officer, department, board, or commission taking bids for construction of any public work or improvement shall specify in the bid invitation and public...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4105
  Circumvention by a general contractor who bids as a prime contractor of the requirement under Section 4104 for him or her to list his or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4106
  If a prime contractor fails to specify a subcontractor or if a prime contractor specifies more than one subcontractor for the same portion of work...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4107
  A prime contractor whose bid is accepted may not: (a) Substitute a person as subcontractor in place of the subcontractor listed in the original bid,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4107.2
  No subcontractor listed by a prime contractor under Section 4104 as furnishing and installing carpeting, shall voluntarily sublet his or her subcontract with respect to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4107.5
  The prime contractor as a condition to assert a claim of inadvertent clerical error in the listing of a subcontractor shall within two working days...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4107.7
  If a contractor who enters into a contract with a public entity for investigation, removal or remedial action, or disposal relative to the release or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4108
  (a) It shall be the responsibility of each subcontractor submitting bids to a prime contractor to be prepared to submit a faithful performance and payment...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4109
  Subletting or subcontracting of any portion of the work in excess of one-half of 1 percent of the prime contractor's total bid as to which...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4110
  A prime contractor violating any of the provisions of this chapter violates his or her contract and the awarding authority may exercise the option, in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4111
  Violation of this chapter by a licensee under Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code constitutes grounds...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4112
  The failure on the part of a contractor to comply with any provision of this chapter does not constitute a defense to the contractor in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4113
  As used in this chapter, the word "subcontractor" shall mean a contractor, within the meaning of the provisions of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 4114
  The county board of supervisors, when it is the awarding authority, may delegate its functions under Sections 4107 and 4110 to any officer designated by...
• California Public Contract Code Section 5100
  (a) "Public entity" means the state, Regents of the University of California, a county, city and county, city, district, public authority, public agency, and any...
• California Public Contract Code Section 5101
  (a) A bidder shall not be relieved of the bid unless by consent of the awarding authority nor shall any change be made in the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 5102
  The complaint shall be filed, and summons served on the director of the department or the chief of the division or other head of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 5103
  The bidder shall establish to the satisfaction of the court that: (a) A mistake was made. (b) He or she gave the public entity written...
• California Public Contract Code Section 5104
  Other than the notice to the public entity, no claim is required to be filed before bringing the action.
• California Public Contract Code Section 5105
  A bidder who claims a mistake or who forfeits his or her bid security shall be prohibited from participating in further bidding on the project...
• California Public Contract Code Section 5106
  If the public entity deems it is for its best interest, it may, on refusal or failure of the successful bidder to execute the contract,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 5107
  In all actions brought under the provisions of this chapter, all courts wherein such actions are or may hereafter be pending, shall give such actions...
• California Public Contract Code Section 5110
  (a) When a project for the construction, alteration, repair, or improvement of any structure, building, or road, or other improvement of any kind is competitively...
• California Public Contract Code Section 6100
  (a) Any state agency or department, as defined in Section 10357, which is subject to this code, shall, prior to awarding a contract for work...
• California Public Contract Code Section 6101
  No state agency or department, as defined in Section 10357, that is subject to this code, shall award a public works or purchase contract to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 6106
  (a) Any state agency or department, which is subject to this code, shall follow this section in negotiating fees and executing a contract for professional...
• California Public Contract Code Section 6106.5
  (a) "State agency," as used in this section, means those departments defined in Section 10106 of the Public Contract Code. (b) "Contractor," as used in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 6107
  (a) As used in this section, "California company" means a sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, corporation, or other business entity that was a licensed California...
• California Public Contract Code Section 6108
  (a) (1) Every contract entered into by any state agency for the procurement or laundering of apparel, garments, or corresponding accessories, or the procurement of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 6109
  (a) A public entity, as defined in Section 1100, may not permit a contractor or subcontractor who is ineligible to bid or work on, or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 6610
  Notice inviting formal bids for projects by a public agency that include a requirement for any type of mandatory prebid conference, site visit, or meeting...
• California Public Contract Code Section 6611
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of General Services may, relative to contracts for goods, services, information technology, and telecommunications, use a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 6615
  For all state contracts, and, to the extent feasible, all federally funded contracts awarded pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 10100), Chapter 2 (commencing...
• California Public Contract Code Section 7100
  Provisions in public works contracts with public entities which provide that acceptance of a payment otherwise due a contractor is a waiver of all claims...
• California Public Contract Code Section 7101
  The state or any other public entity in any public works contract awarded to the lowest bidder, may provide for the payment of extra compensation...
• California Public Contract Code Section 7102
  Contract provisions in construction contracts of public agencies and subcontracts thereunder which limit the contractee's liability to an extension of time for delay for which...
• California Public Contract Code Section 7103
  (a) (1) Every original contractor to who is awarded a contract by a state entity, as defined in subdivision (d), involving an expenditure in excess...
• California Public Contract Code Section 7103.5
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Public works contract" means a contract awarded through competitive bids by the state or any of its political...
• California Public Contract Code Section 7104
  Any public works contract of a local public entity which involves digging trenches or other excavations that extend deeper than four feet below the surface...
• California Public Contract Code Section 7105
  (a) Construction contracts of public agencies shall not require the contractor to be responsible for the cost of repairing or restoring damage to the work,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 7106
  Any public works contract of a public entity shall include an affidavit, in the following form: "NONCOLLUSION AFFIDAVIT TO BE EXECUTED BY BIDDER AND SUBMITTED...
• California Public Contract Code Section 7107
  (a) This section is applicable with respect to all contracts entered into on or after January 1, 1993, relating to the construction of any public...
• California Public Contract Code Section 7108
  Any contract of a public entity to provide train service shall require compliance with the personnel requirements of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 6900) of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 7109
  (a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Antigraffiti technology" means landscaping, paint, or other covering resistant to graffiti, or other procedures to deter graffiti. (2)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 7110
  (a) It is the policy of this state that anyone who enters into a contract with a state agency shall recognize the importance of child...
• California Public Contract Code Section 7200
  (a) (1) This section shall apply with respect to all contracts entered into on or after January 1, 1999, between a public entity and an...
• California Public Contract Code Section 7202
  (a) The Department of Transportation is prohibited from withholding retention proceeds when making progress payments to a contractor for work performed on a transportation project....
• California Public Contract Code Section 9201
  (a) A public entity shall have full authority to compromise or otherwise settle any claim relating to a contract at any time. (b) The public...
• California Public Contract Code Section 9203
  (a) Payment on any contract with a local agency for the creation, construction, alteration, repair, or improvement of any public structure, building, road, or other...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10100
  This part may be cited as the State Contract Act.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10101
  (a) Contracts for the purchase of supplies or materials, which are purchased pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 10290), Part 2, Division 2, of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10102
  Improvements on the property of the state on the waterfront of the City and County of San Francisco under the jurisdiction of the Board of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10103
  Work done directly by any public utility company pursuant to order of the Public Utilities Commission or other public authority, is not subject to this...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10103.5
  Work performed by prisoners pursuant to an order by the Director of the Department of Corrections or by the Prison Industry Authority is not subject...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10104
  As used in this part, "mobilization" includes preparatory work and operations, including, but not limited to, those necessary for the movement of personnel, equipment, supplies...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10105
  (a) As used in this part, "project" includes the erection, construction, alteration, repair or improvement of any state structure, building, road, or other state improvement...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10106
  For purposes of this part: (a) "Department" means any of the following: (1) The Department of Water Resources as to any project under the jurisdiction...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10107
  Whenever provision is made by law for any project which is not under the jurisdiction of the Department of Water Resources, the Department of Boating...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10108
  Where the nature of the work in the opinion of the department is such that its services in connection therewith are not required, it may...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10108.5
  (a) When the nature of the work by departments, boards, commissions, or conservancies within the Resources Agency, in the opinion of the Department of General...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10108.7
  (a) The Department of Corrections shall provide in the general conditions under which bids will be received, that any person making a bid or offer...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10108.8
  The Department of Corrections, where feasible, shall enter into two or more procurement contracts for the purchase and development of the Business Information System (BIS)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10109
  Any notice inviting bids on a project which specifies locations of possible materials, such as a borrow pit or gravel bed, for use in the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10110
  Where the nature of the work is historic restoration for the state park system, as determined jointly by the director and the Director of Parks...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10111
  Commencing January 1, 2007, the department shall make available a report on contracting activity containing the following information: (a) A listing of consulting services contracts...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10115
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The essence of the American economic system of private enterprise is free competition. Only...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10115.1
  As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Awarding department" means any state agency, department, governmental entity, or other officer or entity empowered...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10115.2
  (a) In awarding contracts to the lowest responsible bidder, the awarding department shall consider the efforts of a bidder to meet minority business enterprise, women...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10115.3
  (a) The awarding department shall establish a method of monitoring adherence to the goals specified in this article. (b) The awarding department shall adopt rules...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10115.4
  In implementing this article, the awarding department shall utilize existing resources such as the Office of Small and Minority Business, the Minority Business Development Agency,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10115.6
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the failure of an awarding department to meet the goals established under this article shall not affect the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10115.7
  (a) Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize any awarding department to discriminate in the awarding of any contract on the basis of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10115.8
  If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10115.9
  A limited liability company may be certified as a disabled veteran business enterprise pursuant to this article if the limited liability company is wholly owned...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10115.10
  (a) It shall be unlawful for a person or firm to: (1) Knowingly and with intent to defraud, fraudulently obtain, retain, attempt to obtain or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10115.11
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, statewide participation goals for contracts let by the Department of Corrections shall be exclusive of inmate day...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10115.12
  (a) Any awarding department taking bids in connection with the award of any contract shall provide in the general conditions under which bids will be...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10115.13
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, contracts awarded by any state agency, department, officer, or other state governmental entity for the purchase of general public...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10115.15
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 10115.2, when awarding contracts for materials, supplies, or equipment, including electronic data processing goods and services, an awarding department shall accept the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10120
  Before entering into any contract for a project, the department shall prepare full, complete, and accurate plans and specifications and estimates of cost, giving such...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10121
  The original draft or a certified copy of the plans, specifications, and estimates of cost shall be filed permanently in the office of the department...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10122
  Work on all projects shall be done under contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder pursuant to this part, except that it may be done...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10122.5
  For the purposes of Section 10122, all day labor utilized by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall be performed by individuals who are represented...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10122.6
  Notwithstanding the project cost limit provided in Section 10105, work in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) which would otherwise constitute a project, shall not...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10123
  Contracts upon informal bids authorized under Section 10122 shall be let only to a holder of a valid state contractor's license unless such work is...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10124
  Bids may be received and contracts awarded on a unit basis, that is, the bids compared upon the basis of estimates of the quantities of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10125
  Except in unit basis contracts, contracts shall not be made exceeding in amount the estimates of costs approved by the director and plans and specifications...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10126
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10125, the estimate of cost may be approved by the director, which includes alternates contemplating additions to, or deletions from,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10127
  The department may, with the approval of the State Public Works Board, receive bids for the construction of several public works projects as a single...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10128
  All contracts awarded under this part shall comply with the applicable provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1720) of Part 7 of Division 2...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10129
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 3400, no agency of the state charged with the letting of contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of public works may...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10140
  Public notice of a project shall be given by publication once a week for at least two consecutive weeks or once a week for more...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10141
  The notice shall state the time and place for the receiving and opening of sealed bids, describing in general terms the work to be done...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10160
  The department may require from prospective bidders answers to questions contained in a standard form of questionnaire and financial statement including a complete statement of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10161
  The department may also require from prospective bidders the completion, under penalty of perjury, of a standard form of questionnaire concerning the past safety record...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10162
  The department shall require from all prospective bidders the completion, under penalty of perjury, of a standard form of questionnaire inquiring whether such prospective bidder,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10163
  The department shall adopt and apply a uniform system of rating bidders, on the basis of the standard questionnaires and financial statements, in respect to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10164
  In all state projects where federal funds are involved, no bid submitted shall be invalidated by the failure of the bidder to be licensed in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10165
  The questionnaires and financial statements are not public records and are not open to public inspection.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10166
  The department shall furnish to each bidder a standard proposal form, which, when filled out and executed may be submitted as his bid. Bids not...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10167
  All bids shall be presented under sealed cover and accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: cash, a cashier's check, certified check,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10168
  Whether or not bids are opened exactly at the time fixed in the public notice for opening bids, a bid shall not be received after...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10169
  Any bid may be withdrawn at any time prior to the time fixed in the public notice for the opening of bids only by written...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10180
  On the day named in the public notice, the department shall publicly open the sealed bids and award the contracts to the lowest responsible bidders....
• California Public Contract Code Section 10181
  If the successful bidder fails to execute the contract, his bidder's security shall be forfeited to the state. The cash or proceeds shall be deposited...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10182
  If the director deems it is for the best interests of the state, he may, on the refusal or failure of the successful bidder to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10183
  The failure of the successful bidder to furnish any bond required of him by law, within the time fixed for his execution of the contract,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10184
  The bidders' security of the second and third lowest responsible bidders may be withheld until the contract has been finally executed. The cash, cashier's checks...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10185
  If the director deems the acceptance of the lowest responsible bid or bids is not for the best interests of the state, after stating his...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10220
  Every contract awarded under this part shall be submitted to the Attorney General or the attorney appointed according to law and authorized to represent the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10221
  Every contract shall provide for the filing of separate performance and payment bonds by the contractor in the form of bonds executed by an admitted...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10222
  (a) Each bond shall equal at least one-half of the contract price, except as otherwise provided in Section 3248 of the Civil Code, in the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10223
  The payment bond shall secure the payment of the claims of laborers, mechanics or materialmen employed on the work under the contract and shall contain...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10224
  The performance bond shall guarantee the faithful performance of the contract by the contractor.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10225
  No payment shall be made upon the contract to the contractor or any assignee of the contractor until any order by the director that a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10226
  Every contract shall contain a provision in regard to the time when the whole or any specified portion of the work contemplated shall be completed,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10227
  Every contract shall provide that the department may make changes in the plans and specifications pursuant to this part.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10231
  Every contract subject to this part shall contain a provision requiring each contractor to comply with all air pollution control rules, regulations, ordinances, and statutes...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10232
  Every contract shall contain a statement by which the contractor swears under penalty of perjury that no more than one final, unappealable finding of contempt...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240
  The remedy for the resolution of claims arising under contracts made under the provisions of this chapter shall be arbitration pursuant to this chapter.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.1
  The claimant may initiate arbitration not later than 90 days after the date of service in person or by mail on the claimant of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.2
  A failure by the claimant to pursue diligently and exhaust, as to the claim, the required administrative procedures set forth in the contract under which...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.3
  Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, the arbitration shall be conducted by a single arbitrator selected by the parties from the certified list created by...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.4
  No decision made by a department shall be conclusive on any issue in the arbitration.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.5
  (a) The Departments of General Services, Transportation, and Water Resources shall jointly adopt and may, from time to time, modify, revise, or repeal uniform regulations...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.6
  As used in this article, "claim" means a demand for monetary compensation or damages, arising under or relating to the performance of a contract awarded...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.7
  As used in this article, "Public Works Contract Arbitration Committee" means the committee created by Article 7.2 (commencing with Section 10245).
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.8
  Unless the parties to the contract otherwise agree, the arbitration decision shall be decided under and in accordance with the law of this state, supported...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.9
  A party to the contract may join in the arbitration as a party, any supplier, subcontractor, design professional, surety, or other person who has so...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.10
  Nothing in this article shall be construed as preventing the parties to the contract, after the claim has arisen, from mutually agreeing in writing to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.11
  Except as provided in this article and in the regulations adopted pursuant to Section 10240.5, the procedure governing the arbitrations shall be as set forth...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.12
  A party may, within the applicable time periods and upon the grounds specified in this section and in Article 1 (commencing with Section 1285) of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.13
  The cost of conducting the arbitration shall be borne equally by the parties. The filing fee, witness fees, costs of discovery, or any other cost...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10245
  There is hereby established the Public Works Contract Arbitration Committee, which shall consist of seven members, as follows: (a) Three public members, who shall be...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10245.1
  Each member appointed by the Governor shall serve for a term of four years, but shall continue in office until the successor to the member...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10245.2
  The committee may make recommendations to the departments respecting the arbitration practice and procedure provided by Article 7.1 (commencing with Section 10240). The departments shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10245.3
  The committee may establish standards and qualifications for the certification of arbitrators and certify as arbitrators persons meeting such standards and qualifications. The committee may...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10245.4
  The Office of Administrative Hearings shall provide administrative services, facilities, and fiscal support to implement this article and Article 7.1 (commencing with Section 10240). The...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.5
  (a) The Departments of General Services, Transportation, and Water Resources shall jointly adopt and may, from time to time, modify, revise, or repeal uniform regulations...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.6
  As used in this article, "claim" means a demand for monetary compensation or damages, arising under or relating to the performance of a contract awarded...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.7
  As used in this article, "Public Works Contract Arbitration Committee" means the committee created by Article 7.2 (commencing with Section 10245).
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.8
  Unless the parties to the contract otherwise agree, the arbitration decision shall be decided under and in accordance with the law of this state, supported...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.9
  A party to the contract may join in the arbitration as a party, any supplier, subcontractor, design professional, surety, or other person who has so...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.10
  Nothing in this article shall be construed as preventing the parties to the contract, after the claim has arisen, from mutually agreeing in writing to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.11
  Except as provided in this article and in the regulations adopted pursuant to Section 10240.5, the procedure governing the arbitrations shall be as set forth...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.12
  A party may, within the applicable time periods and upon the grounds specified in this section and in Article 1 (commencing with Section 1285) of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10240.13
  The cost of conducting the arbitration shall be borne equally by the parties. The filing fee, witness fees, costs of discovery, or any other cost...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10250
  The department may increase or decrease quantities of work to be done under a unit basis contract during the progress of the work.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10251
  The department may cause the insertion of provisions in any contract for the performance of such extra work and the furnishing of materials therefor by...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10252
  The director may grant such extensions of time for completion as he deems for the best interests of the state.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10253
  If the director deems that a contractor has failed to supply an adequate working force, or material of proper quality, or has failed to comply...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10254
  If the defaults are not remedied within the time specified in the notice, the contractor's control shall terminate as of the expiration of that time.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10255
  Upon such termination, the director may take possession of and use all or any part of the contractor's materials, tools, equipment, and appliances upon the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10256
  Such informal contracts may be awarded only after a proposal form has been prepared, a copy is served upon the contractor whose control has been...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10257
  The provisions of this part, except as to prequalification, are not applicable to the award of informal contracts.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10258
  If the control of a contractor is terminated or he abandons the work, and the work is performed by day's labor or informal contract as...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10259
  On the completion of the contract, the original contractor is entitled to the return of all his unused materials, and his equipment, tools, and appliances,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10260
  The notices required by this article may be served on the contractor or on his agent having charge of the work, personally, or by registered...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10261
  Payments upon contracts shall be made as the department prescribes upon estimates made and approved by the department, but progress payments shall not be made...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10261.5
  (a) Any state agency which fails to make any progress payment within 30 days after receipt of the payment request from a contractor on a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10262
  The contractor shall pay to his or her subcontractors, within 10 days of receipt of each progress payment, the respective amounts allowed the contractor on...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10262.3
  To facilitate enforcement of Section 10262, the Department of General Services shall publish in the California State Contracts Register notice of progress payments made to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10262.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a prime contractor or subcontractor shall pay to any subcontractor, not later than 10 days of receipt of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10263
  (a) Provisions shall be included in any invitation for bid and in any contract documents to permit the substitution of securities for any moneys withheld...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10264
  (a) With the exception of projects over water requiring marine access, and which have a contract amount greater than twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000), in addition...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10265
  A claim pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code is not required, but legal...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10280
  Any officer or employee of the department who corruptly performs any official act to the injury of the state, is guilty of a felony.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10281
  Any contractor or his agent or employee who corruptly permits the violation of any contract awarded under this part to the injury of the state,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10282
  Any subcontractor or agent or employee of any contractor or subcontractor, who has knowledge of any work being done in violation of any contract under...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10283
  Such felonies are punishable by imprisonment in the state prison.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10284
  Such persons are also liable to the state for double the amount the state may have lost, or be liable to lose by reason of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10285
  The term "person," as used in this article, means any individual, partnership, joint venture, or association or any other organization or any combination thereof.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10285.1
  Any state agency may suspend, for a period of up to three years from the date of conviction, any person from bidding upon, or being...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10285.2
  Before suspending any person under this article, the state agency shall provide a hearing upon reasonable notice. In determining whether to suspend, and the duration...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10285.3
  In the event that any state agency has suspended any person under this article, any other state agency shall adopt the terms of that suspension...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10285.4
  In the event that any state agency has suspended any person under this article, that agency may terminate the suspension if it determines that termination...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10285.5
  Nothing in this article shall require any state agency to contract with, or to permit the employment of a person as a subcontractor, or any...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10286
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Taxpayer and Shareholder Protection Act of 2003.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10286.1
  (a) For purposes of this part, except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), a state agency shall not enter into any contract with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10290
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Department" means the Department of General Services. (b) "Director" means the Director of General Services. (c) "Centralized purchasing" means...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10290.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in exercising their delegation of contracting authority from the department, state agencies may contract for goods, information technology,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10290.3
  (a) Notwithstanding the bidding provisions of this chapter, reverse auctions may be utilized for the acquisition of goods and services. The reverse auction process shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10295
  (a) All contracts entered into by any state agency for (1) the acquisition of goods or elementary school textbooks, (2) services, whether or not the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10295.1
  (a) A state department or agency shall not contract for the purchase of tangible personal property from a vendor, contractor, or an affiliate of a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10295.3
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no state agency may enter into any contract for the acquisition of goods or services in the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10295.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no state agency shall acquire or utilize sand, gravel, aggregates, or other minerals produced from a surface mining...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10296
  (a) Every contract entered into by any state agency for any purpose specified in subdivisions (a) to (d), inclusive, of Section 10295 shall contain a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10297
  The provisions of Section 10295 shall apply both to contracts awarded through competitive bidding and those not subject to competitive bidding. The department shall deny...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10298
  (a) The director may consolidate the needs of multiple state agencies for goods, information technology, and services, and, pursuant to the procedures established in Chapter...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10299
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may consolidate the needs of multiple state agencies for information technology, goods and services, and, pursuant...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10299
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may consolidate the needs of multiple state agencies for information technology goods and services, and, pursuant...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10300
  (a) A Customer and Supplier Advocate shall be established in the department as a resource to state agencies and departments, and suppliers seeking information regarding...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10301
  Except in cases when the agency and the department agree that an article of a specified brand or trade name is the only article that...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10302
  Except in cases of emergency where immediate purchase of goods without bid is necessary for the protection of the public health, welfare, or safety, whenever...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10302.5
  All product specifications that the department or any other state agency prepares for goods for any contract entered into by any state agency for the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10302.6
  Product specifications as prepared by the department or any other state agency shall not be written with the intent of excluding goods manufactured, produced, grown,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10303
  The department shall adopt, publish and apply uniform standards of rating bidders, on the basis of questionnaires and required statements, with respect to contracts upon...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10304
  All bids shall be sealed and shall be publicly opened and read at the time set forth in the solicitation, provided any person present desires...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10305
  After being opened the bids shall be available for public inspection and tabulations shall be completed within seven days.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10306
  Whenever a contract or purchase order under this article is not to be awarded to the lowest bidder, the bidder shall be notified 24 hours...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10307
  The director shall establish statewide acquisition standards, the purpose of which shall be to ensure the necessary quality of goods acquired by or under the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10308
  Except as provided otherwise in this chapter, every acquisition of goods in excess of one hundred dollars ($100) for any state agency shall be made...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10309
  Except as provided in Sections 10332 and 10333, no state agency may acquire goods in the open market, unless permission has been given by the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10310
  Upon the request of the department, every state agency that is authorized by law to acquire goods shall designate some person in the agency whose...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10311
  (a) An estimate or requisition approved by the state agency in control of the appropriation or fund against which an acquisition is to be charged,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10312
  Immediately upon the rendition of services or the delivery of goods, the disbursing officer shall transmit the invoice or demand for payment together with his...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10313
  The director may make the services of the department under this article available, upon those terms and conditions as he or she may deem satisfactory,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10314
  Any contract for goods to be manufactured by the contractor specially for the state and not suitable for sale to others in the ordinary course...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10315
  The department may rent, lease, construct, and maintain warehouses and make the rules and regulations that are necessary for the proper and economical making of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10316
  The department may insure in the name of the state any goods or merchandise belonging to the state which are stored in any warehouse or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10317
  Each person in the department who has personal supervision and control of any warehouse or storage depot wherein merchandise or goods belonging to the state...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10318
  No state agency or employee thereof shall draft or cause to be drafted, any specifications for bids, in connection with the acquisition or contemplated acquisition...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10319
  To meet an emergency, goods of a perishable nature, in an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) in value, may be acquired by a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10320
  (a) The department shall annually prepare a delegation program for district agricultural associations to be administered by the Department of Food and Agriculture and the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10320.5
  (a) Commencing January 1, 1992, all state agencies subject to this chapter that enter into installment purchase or lease-purchase contracts shall make periodic payments, which...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10321
  (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that fairs are a valuable community resource and recognizes that local businesses and local communities make valuable contributions...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10322
  Any person who supplies any state agency with livestock products derived from any of the animals enumerated in Section 19501 of the Food and Agricultural...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10323
  To assist the department and other state agencies in the enforcement of the provisions of Section 19501 of the Food and Agricultural Code, the Department...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10325
  Each quarter, the department shall, upon request, provide each city, county, city and county, district, local government body, or public corporation empowered to expend public...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10326
  In establishing bid specifications for the acquisition of motor vehicles and in determining the lowest responsible bidder, consideration may be given by the state to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10326.1
  (a) A campus or a facility of a California Community College or a campus or a facility of the California State University, that owns, leases,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10327
  Except for motor vehicles described in Section 43805 of the Health and Safety Code, the provisions of Article 1 (commencing with Section 43800) of Chapter...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10328
  The bid requirements prescribed in this article are not applicable to contracts for the acquisition of the following: (a) Fluid milk and fluid cream, the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10329
  No person shall willfully split a single transaction into a series of transactions for the purpose of evading the bidding requirements of this article.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10330
  On July 1 of each year, the department shall establish the minimum dollar level below which authority to acquire goods shall be delegated to state...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10331
  The department shall establish a program for delegating authority to acquire goods to state agencies that meet the requirements of Section 10333. Each delegation shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10332
  Any state agency that receives delegated authority to acquire goods shall be authorized, at a minimum, to make the following types of acquisitions: (a) Acquisitions...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10333
  (a) The department shall delegate purchasing authority, as specified in Section 10332, to any state agency that does all of the following: (1) Designates an...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10334
  (a) No state employee shall acquire any goods from the state, unless the goods are offered to the general public in the regular course of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10335
  (a) This article shall apply to all contracts, including amendments, entered into by any state agency for services to be rendered to the state, whether...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10335.5
  (a) "Consulting services contract," as used in this article, means services that do all of the following: (1) Are of an advisory nature. (2) Provide...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10335.7
  "State agency," as used in this article, means every state office, department, division, bureau, board, or commission, but does not include the Legislature, the courts,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10336
  The Department of Finance may establish those controls over approval of contracts by the department as are necessary to assure that approval is consistent with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10337
  (a) The State Personnel Board may establish such standards and controls over approval of contracts by the Department of General Services as are necessary to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10339
  (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 10348, no state agency shall draft, or cause to be drafted, any invitation to bid or request for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10340
  (a) Except as provided by subdivision (b), state agencies shall secure at least three competitive bids or proposals for each contract. (b) Three competitive bids...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10341
  Whenever a contract subject to the provisions of this article is awarded under a procedure which provides for competitive bidding, the bids shall be publicly...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10342
  After opening, all bids shall be available for public inspection.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10344
  (a) Contracts subject to the provisions of this article may be awarded under a procedure which makes use of a request for proposal. State agencies...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10344.1
  The Department of Personnel Administration, with respect to contracts it enters into for state employees for employee benefits, occupational health and safety, training services, or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10345
  (a) Whenever a contract is awarded under a procedure providing for competitive bidding, but the contract is not to be awarded to the low bidder,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10346
  Contracts may provide for progress payments to contractors for work performed or costs incurred in the performance of the contract. Not less than 10 percent...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10348
  The department shall prescribe the following: (a) The conditions under which a contract may be awarded without competition, and the methods and criteria which shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10348.5
  Each state agency shall designate at least one currently existing person or position within the state agency as a contract manager. Every contract manager shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10349
  The Department of Personnel Administration shall establish a program for training state agency contracting personnel in contract administration and contract management. The cost of training...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10351
  (a) The department shall exempt from its approval contracts under seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) that any state agency awards if the state agency does all...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10352
  (a) The department shall conduct a quality control review of the audit of the contracting program required by Section 10351. (b) The exemption provided by...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10353
  A contract in an amount in excess of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) that is governed by the provisions of this part shall contain a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10353.5
  (a) Any contract for legal services shall contain the following provisions: (1) The contractor shall agree to adhere to legal cost and billing guidelines designated...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10365.5
  (a) No person, firm, or subsidiary thereof who has been awarded a consulting services contract may submit a bid for, nor be awarded a contract...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10367
  (a) Each contractor shall be advised in writing on the standard contract form that his or her performance, or the firm's performance under the contract...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10369
  (a) Each state agency shall conduct a post-evaluation, by completing the post-evaluation form, of each consulting services contract totaling five thousand dollars ($5,000) or more...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10370
  The evaluations and contractor responses on file with the state agencies and the department shall not be public records. The department shall act as a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10371
  The following provisions shall apply to all consulting services contracts: (a) Each state agency shall, regardless of the fiscal amount involved, use available private resources...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10381
  (a) The department shall ensure that all state agencies are kept fully informed of the department's plans and procedures for implementing the provisions of this...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10383
  The Department of General Services is hereby designated as the agency for the State of California responsible for distribution of federal surplus personal property, excepting...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10383.1
  The department shall cooperate with the federal government and its agencies in securing the expeditious and equitable distribution of surplus personal property of the federal...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10383.2
  The department may enter into cooperative agreements with, and may provide for utilization by, federal agencies, with or without payment or reimbursement, of the property,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10383.3
  The Director of General Services may create a committee to serve as an advisory body to the department to ensure that distribution of federal surplus...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10383.4
  The department shall develop a detailed state plan of operation in accordance with subdivision (j) of Section 203 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10383.5
  The cash resources of the Surplus Property - Hardware Program from surplus-personal property transferred to this state in accordance with the Federal Property and Administrative...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10383.6
  The Department of General Services shall have the possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, and other property...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10383.7
  All officers and employees of the State Department of Education as mutually agreed by the Department of General Services to be on the operative date...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10383.8
  The department may make all rules and regulations consistent with the law for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this article. Those...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10385
  The department may purchase, lease or otherwise acquire from the federal government or any agency thereof for use of state agencies, surplus real property, including...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10386
  Any and all negotiations with the federal government or its agencies for or in connection with the purchase or acquisition of such property, and all...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10387
  The department shall do all of the following: (1) Keep in constant touch with federal agencies charged with the sale or disposition of federal property...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10388
  Unless otherwise prescribed by the department, state agencies desiring to purchase or acquire federal property shall submit their estimates or requisitions therefor to the department,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10389
  This article shall not apply to the Trustees of the California State University.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10389.1
  The Department of General Services, if feasible and consistent with existing law, shall first offer appropriate state surplus personal property to school districts prior to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10405
  The following definitions govern the construction of this article: (a) "Department" means the State Department of Health Services. (b) "Industrial oil" means any compressor, turbine,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10406
  Every procuring agency shall continuously review and revise its procedures and specifications for the purchase of lubricating oil and industrial oil to eliminate any exclusion...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10407
  Every procuring agency shall require that purchases of lubricating oil and industrial oil be made from the seller whose oil product contains the greater percentage...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10408
  (a) Every procuring agency shall establish and maintain an affirmative program for procuring oils containing the maximum content of recycled oil. (b) An affirmative program...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10409
  Every local agency, as defined in Section 17518 of the Government Code, shall purchase lubricating oil and industrial oil from the seller whose oil product...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10410
  No officer or employee in the state civil service or other appointed state official shall engage in any employment, activity, or enterprise from which the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10411
  (a) No retired, dismissed, separated, or formerly employed person of any state agency or department employed under the state civil service or otherwise appointed to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10412
  Each contractor who enters into a state contract with the state for ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or more, shall be assigned an identification number by...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10420
  Every contract or other transaction entered in violation of any provision of this chapter is void, unless the violation is technical or nonsubstantive.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10421
  The state, or any person acting on behalf of the state, may bring a civil action seeking a determination by the Superior Court that a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10422
  Any officer or employee of the department who corruptly performs any official act under this chapter to the injury of the state is guilty of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10423
  Any person contracting with the state by oral or written contract who corruptly permits the violation of any contract made under this chapter is guilty...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10424
  Persons convicted under Section 10422 or 10423 are also liable to the state for double the amount the state may have lost, or be liable...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10425
  Willful violation of any other provision of this chapter shall constitute a misdemeanor.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10426
  (a) It shall be unlawful for a person to intentionally disclose proprietary information obtained in the negotiation, execution, or performance of a consulting services contract,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10430
  This chapter does not apply to any of the following: (a) The Regents of the University of California and the Trustees of the California State...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10470
  As used in this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Awarding department" means any state agency, department, governmental entity, or other officer of an...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10471
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all contracts awarded pursuant to Section 2910 of the Penal Code or Section 1753.3 of the Welfare and Institutions...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10472
  In awarding contracts to the lowest responsible bidder, the awarding department shall consider the responsiveness of a bidder to minority business enterprise and women business...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10473
  (a) Each awarding department shall establish a method for monitoring compliance with the minority business enterprise and women business enterprise goals required in this article....
• California Public Contract Code Section 10474
  Commencing on January 1, 1989, and on January 1st of each year thereafter, each awarding department shall submit a report to the Legislature and the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10475
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) On September 21, 2004, in addressing the United Nations General Assembly, President George W....
• California Public Contract Code Section 10476
  As used in this article, the following definition applies: "Scrutinized company" means a company in Sudan that is involved in power production activities, mineral extraction...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10477
  (a) A scrutinized company is ineligible to, and shall not, bid on or submit a proposal for a contract with a state agency for goods...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10478
  (a) A state agency shall require a company that submits a bid or proposal with respect to a contract for goods or services, that currently...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10479
  (a) If the Department of General Services determines that a company has submitted a false certification under Section 10478, the company shall be subject to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10480
  This act shall be repealed upon affirmative action of the Legislature. Provided, that in determining whether to repeal this act, by way of suggestion and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10481
  (a) If any one or more provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this act or the application thereof to any person or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10500
  As used in this article, "project" includes the erection, construction, alteration, repair, or improvement of any University of California structure, building, road, or other improvement...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10500.5
  It is the intent of the Legislature to facilitate the participation of small businesses, particularly small disadvantaged or minority business enterprises, women business enterprises, and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10501
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, the Regents of the University of California shall let any contract for a project to the lowest responsible...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10502
  The Regents of the University of California shall give public notice of a project to bidders by publication twice within the 60-day period preceding the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10503
  Before entering into any contract for a project, the Regents of the University of California shall cause to be prepared estimates and either: (a) Complete...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10504
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 10504.5 or 10506, work on all projects shall be performed under contract awarded in accordance with Section 10501, except...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10504.5
  Where the nature of the work, in the opinion of the regents, is such that the application of all of the provisions of this chapter...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10505
  (a) The Regents of the University of California may perform projects with university employees if the regents deem that the award of a contract, the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10506
  The requirements of Sections 10501, 10502, and 10503 shall not be applicable to (1) any project of which the Regents of the University of California...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10506.4
  (a) This article provides for a pilot program for the University of California when awarding construction contracts, applicable only to a single University of California...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10506.5
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Best value" means a procurement process whereby the lowest responsible bidder may be selected on...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10506.6
  The university shall proceed in accordance with the following when awarding best value contracts under this article. (a) The university shall prepare a solicitation for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10506.7
  Selection of the best value contractor shall be made as follows: (a) The university shall evaluate the qualifications of the bidders based solely upon the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10506.8
  On or before January 1, 2010, the Regents of the University of California shall submit a report to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10506.9
  This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2012, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10507.5
  It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage the procurement of recycled paper products by the University of California by developing guidelines to encourage...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10507.7
  Except as provided for in this article, the Regents of the University of California shall let all contracts involving an expenditure of more than fifty...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10508
  The requirements of this article shall not be applicable when the regents determine that a brand or trade name article, thing, or product or proprietary...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10509
  The Regents of the University of California shall prescribe methods of procurement for goods, materials, and services to be purchased, including: (a) Requirements for public...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10510
  The requirements of this article shall not be applicable to the procurement of goods, materials, or services funded exclusively by federal agencies to the extent...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10510.4
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Firm" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity permitted by law...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10510.5
  (a) Selection by the University of California for professional services of private architectural, landscape architectural, engineering, environmental, land surveying, real property development services, or construction...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10510.6
  (a) The University of California shall follow this section in negotiating fees and executing a contract for professional consulting services of a private architectural, landscape...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10510.7
  (a) In the procurement of architectural, landscape architectural, engineering, environmental, land surveying, real property development services, and construction project management services, the university shall encourage...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10510.8
  (a) The university shall negotiate a contract with the best qualified firm for architectural, landscape architectural, engineering, environmental, land surveying, real property development services, and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10510.9
  Any individual or firm proposing to provide construction project management services pursuant to this article shall provide evidence that the individual or firm and its...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10511
  (a) (1) The Regents of the University of California shall give public notice to bidders of the sale of University of California real property situated...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10512
  (a) On the date designated in the public notice, the sealed bids shall be publicly opened. (b) (1) The regents shall accept in public the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10513
  The publication and award procedures set forth in this article shall not be applicable to any of the following: (a) The sale of an undivided...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10515
  (a) No person, firm, or subsidiary thereof who has been awarded a consulting services contract may submit a bid for, nor be awarded a contract...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10516
  No officer or employee of the University of California shall engage in any employment, activity, or enterprise from which the officer or employee receives compensation...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10517
  (a) No retired, dismissed, separated, or formerly employed person of the University of California employed with the university or otherwise appointed to serve in the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10518
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), each contractor who enters into a contract with a University of California campus for ten thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10520
  Every contract or other transaction entered in violation of any provision of this chapter is void, unless the violation is technical or nonsubstantive.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10521
  The University of California, or any person acting on behalf of the university, may bring a civil action seeking a determination by the superior court...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10522
  Any officer or employee of the University of California who corruptly performs any official act under this chapter to the injury of the university is...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10523
  Any person contracting with the University of California by oral or written contract who corruptly permits the violation of any contract made under this chapter...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10524
  Persons convicted under Section 10522 or 10523 are also liable to the University of California for double the amount the university may have lost or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10525
  Willful violation of any other provision of this chapter shall constitute a misdemeanor.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10526
  Sections 10522, 10523, 10524, and 10525 of this article do not apply to violations of Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 10510.4) of this chapter.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10700
  This chapter may be cited as the California State University Contract Law.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10701
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Project" includes the erection, construction, alteration, painting, repair, or improvement of any state structure, building, road, or other state...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10702
  Contracts for the purchase of supplies or materials, which are purchased through the Department of General Services, are not subject to this chapter, even though...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10703
  Work done directly by any public utility company pursuant to order of the Public Utilities Commission or other public authority, is not subject to this...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10704
  The project shall be under the sole and direct control of the trustees, pursuant to the powers and responsibilities invested in them by Chapter 8...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10705
  (a) When, in the opinion of the trustees, the work does not require the application of all of the provisions of this chapter in connection...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10706
  The trustees and the Department of General Services may enter into an agreement under which the Department of General Services will carry out any of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10706.5
  The trustees may enter into an agreement with an auxiliary organization, as defined in Section 89901 of the Education Code, under which the auxiliary organization...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10707
  The trustees may enter into service contracts. Such contracts shall be subject only to Section 10820 and to such other provisions of this chapter, if...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10708
  (a) When, in the opinion of the trustees, the best interests of the California State University dictate, the trustees may enter into an agreement with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10709
  Notwithstanding any provision of the California State University Contract Law and any other provision of law to the contrary, the trustees may enter into an...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10710
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the trustees may award annual contracts that do not exceed three million dollars ($3,000,000) for repair or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10720
  Before entering into any contract for a project, the trustees, pursuant to the powers invested in them by Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 66600) of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10721
  The plans, specifications, and estimates of cost shall be approved by the trustees, and the original draft or a certified copy filed permanently in the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10722
  Work on all projects shall be done under contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder pursuant to this chapter, except that it may be done...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10723
  Upon the approval of the trustees the authorized employees of the trustees may, when proceeding upon the basis of day's labor, let any subdivision or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10724
  Bids may be received and contracts awarded on a unit basis, that is, the bids compared upon the basis of estimates of the quantities of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10725
  Except in unit basis contracts, contracts shall not be made exceeding in amount the estimates of costs approved by the trustees. Plans and specifications and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10726
  The trustees may receive bids for the construction of several public works projects at one campus of the California State University as a single project....
• California Public Contract Code Section 10740
  When it appears from the estimates of cost that the estimated contract price of any project will not exceed fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), the trustees...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10741
  The notices shall state the time and place for the receiving and opening of sealed bids and describe in general terms the work to be
• California Public Contract Code Section 10742
  When it appears that the estimated contract price will exceed fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), public notice to bidders shall be given by publication once a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10743
  The notices shall state the time and place for the receiving and opening of sealed bids and that the bids will be required for the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10760
  The trustees may require, and on contracts the estimated cost of which exceeds the value of a minor capital outlay project for which, pursuant to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10761
  The trustees shall adopt and apply a uniform system of rating bidders, on the basis of the standard questionnaires and financial statements, in respect to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10762
  In all projects for road, street, and bridge work where federal funds are involved and where a bidder is required to be and has been...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10763
  The questionnaires and financial statements are not public records and are not open to public inspection.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10764
  The trustees shall furnish to each bidder a standard proposal form, which, when filled out and executed, may be submitted as the bid. Bids not...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10765
  (a) All bids shall be presented under sealed cover and accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: cash, a cashier's check, certified...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10766
  Whether or not bids are opened exactly at the time fixed in the public notice for opening bids, a bid shall not be received after...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10767
  Any bid may be withdrawn at any time prior to the time fixed in the public notice for the opening of bids only by written...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10780
  On the day named in the public notice the trustees shall publicly open the sealed bids and award the contracts to the lowest responsible bidders.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10780.5
  The trustees may require a bid for a public works contract to include prices for items that may be added to, or deducted from, the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10781
  If the successful bidder fails to execute the contract, the bidder's security shall be forfeited to the state. The cash or proceeds shall be deposited...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10782
  If the trustees deem it is for the best interest of the state, they may, on the refusal or failure of the successful bidder to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10783
  The failure of the successful bidder to furnish any bond required by law, within the time fixed for execution of the contract, constitutes a failure...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10784
  The bidder's security of the second and third lowest responsible bidders may be withheld until the contract has been finally executed. The cash, cashier's checks,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10785
  If the trustees deem the acceptance of the lowest responsible bid or bids is not for the best interests of the state, they may reject...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10820
  Every contract awarded under this chapter shall be submitted to the Attorney General or the attorney appointed according to law and authorized to represent the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10821
  Every contract shall provide for the filing of separate performance and payment bonds by the contractor executed by an admitted surety insurer, subject to the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10822
  Each bond shall be in a sum equal to at least one-half of the contract price, except as otherwise provided in Section 3248 of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10823
  The payment bond shall secure the payment of the claims of laborers, mechanics, or materialmen employed on the work under the contract and shall contain...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10824
  The performance bond shall guarantee the faithful performance of the contract by the contractor.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10825
  No payment shall be made upon the contract to the contractor or any assignee of the contractor until an order by the trustees that a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10826
  Every contract shall contain a provision in regard to the time when the whole or any specified portion of the work contemplated shall be completed,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10827
  Every contract shall provide that the trustees may make changes in the plans and specifications pursuant to this chapter.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10830
  (a) No person, firm, or subsidiary thereof who has been awarded a consulting services contract may submit a bid or be awarded a contract on...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10831
  No officer or employee of the California State University shall engage in any employment, activity, or enterprise for which the officer or employee receives compensation...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10832
  (a) No retired, dismissed, separated, or formerly employed person of the California State University employed with the California State University or otherwise appointed to serve...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10833
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), each contractor who enters into a contract with a California State University campus for ten thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10840
  The trustees may increase or decrease quantities of work to be done under a unit basis contract during the progress of the work.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10841
  The trustees may cause the insertion of provisions in any contract for the performance of such extra work and the furnishing of materials therefor by...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10842
  The trustees may grant such extensions of time for completion as they deem for the best interests of the state.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10843
  If the trustees deem that a contractor has failed to supply an adequate working force, or material of proper quality, or has failed in any...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10844
  If the defaults are not remedied within the time specified in the notice, the contractor's control shall terminate as of the expiration of that time.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10845
  Upon such termination, the trustees may take possession of and use all or any part of the contractor's materials, tools, equipment, and appliances upon the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10846
  Such informal contracts may be awarded only after a proposal form has been prepared, a copy is served upon the contractor whose control has been...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10847
  The provisions of this chapter, except as to prequalifications, are not applicable to the award of informal contracts.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10848
  If the control of a contractor is terminated or he or she abandons the work, and the work is performed by day's labor or informal...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10849
  On the completion of the contract, the original contractor is entitled to the return of all his or her unused materials, and his or her...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10850
  The notices required by this article may be served on the contractor or on his or her agent having charge of the work, personally, or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10851
  Payments upon contracts shall be made as the trustees prescribe upon estimates made and approved by the trustees, but progress payments shall not be made...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10852
  At the request and expense of the contractor, and with the approval of the trustees, any amount withheld pursuant to Section 10851 may be deposited...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10853
  (a) If the trustees fail to make a progress payment on a contract within 39 days after receipt of an undisputed and properly submitted payment...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10870
  Any officer or employee of the trustees who corruptly performs any official act to the injury of the state, is guilty of a felony.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10871
  Any contractor or his or her agent or employee who corruptly permits the violation of any contract awarded under this chapter to the injury of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10872
  Any subcontractor or agent or employee of any contractor or subcontractor, who has knowledge of any work being done in violation of any contract under...
• California Public Contract Code Section 10873
  Such felonies are punishable by imprisonment in the state prison.
• California Public Contract Code Section 10874
  Such persons are also liable to the state for double the amount the state may have lost, or be liable to lose by reason of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12100
  The Legislature finds that the unique aspects of information technology, as defined in Section 11702 of the Government Code, and its importance to state programs...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12100.5
  The Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12100.6
  The Trustees of the California State University are subject to Article 1.5 (commencing with Section 10115) of Chapter 1. The contents of any report that...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12100.7
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Department" means the Department of General Services. (b) "Director" means the Director of General Services. (c) "Information technology" shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12101
  It is the intent of the Legislature that policies developed by the Department of Information Technology and procedures developed by the Department of General Services...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12101.2
  Commencing on January 1, 1994, the department shall prenegotiate the repetitively used terms and conditions in the state' s model contract with each interested vendor...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12101.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that agencies of the state use an acquisition method that is compatible with their short- and long-term...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12101.7
  (a) Notwithstanding the sealed bidding provisions of this chapter, reverse auctions may be utilized for the acquisition of information technology, in accordance with the procedures...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12102
  The Department of General Services shall maintain, in the State Administrative Manual, policies and procedures governing the acquisition and disposal of information technology goods and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12103
  In addition to the mandatory requirements enumerated in Section 12102, the acquisition policies developed and maintained by the Department of Information Technology and procedures developed...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12103.5
  Beginning January 1, 2007, for those information technology purchases for which the department determines that a request for proposal (RFP) is appropriate, the department shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12104
  (a) (1) Commencing on or before January 1, 2007, the State Contracting Manual shall set forth all policies, procedures, and methods that shall be used...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12104.5
  (a) All rules and requirements governing an information technology acquisition, for which the department determines that a request for proposal (RFP) is appropriate, shall be...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12105
  The Department of General Services and the Department of Information Technology shall coordinate in the development of policies and procedures which implement the intent of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12106
  The Department of General Services may, in addition to fulfilling the mandatory requirements enumerated in Section 12102, adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12108
  Until the time that the Department of General Services has published in the State Administrative Manual the procedures required in accordance with Section 12102, acquisitions...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12109
  The Director of General Services may make the services of the department under this chapter available, upon the terms and conditions that may be deemed...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12112
  (a) Any contract for information technology goods or services, to be manufactured or performed by the contractor especially for the state and not suitable for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12112
  (a) Any contract for information technology goods or services, to be manufactured or performed by the contractor especially for the state and not suitable for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12113
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, state and local agencies may enter into agreements to pay for telecommunications services to be utilized beyond the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12120
  The Legislature finds and declares that, with the advent of deregulation in the telecommunications industry, substantial cost savings can be realized by the state through...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12121
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Tactical policy" means the policies of an organization necessary to direct operational staff in carrying out their day-to-day activities....
• California Public Contract Code Section 12125
  There is hereby established the Alternative Protest Process to be administered by the Department of General Services.
• California Public Contract Code Section 12126
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any department or agency may use the solicitation and alternative protest procedures outlined in this chapter for solicitations...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12127
  Major information technology acquisitions subject to this chapter shall meet the following criteria: (a) The agency or department has stated its business needs and not...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12127.5
  All other procurements subject to this chapter shall meet one or more of the following criteria: (a) The agency or department has stated its business...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12128
  (a) The Alternative Protest Process shall continue until December 31, 2011. The Department of General Services shall apply this chapter to the following categories: (1)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12129
  The Department of General Services shall electronically submit a report and recommendations to the Legislature regarding the Alternative Protest Process on or before January 1,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12153
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) It is the policy of the state to conserve and protect resources for future citizens...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12156
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no state agency shall purchase any printer or duplication cartridge for which the manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor, retailer, or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12164.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that for the current state waste paper collection program, the California Integrated Waste Management Board shall provide...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12165
  (a) After implementing a recycling plan pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 12164.5, the California Integrated Waste Management Board shall establish, implement, and maintain a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12166
  The California Integrated Waste Management Board may contract as necessary for the recycling of products which have been returned pursuant to Section 12165.
• California Public Contract Code Section 12167
  Revenues received from this plan or any other activity involving the collection and sale of recyclable materials in state and legislative offices located in state-owned...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12167.1
  Notwithstanding Section 12167, upon approval by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, revenues derived from the sale of recyclable materials by state agencies and institutions...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12180
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is the policy of the state to encourage the use of marketable end products which are produced...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12183
  (a) All state departments and agencies, including, but not limited to, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Water Resources, the Department of Forestry and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12184
  It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this article, that the revenues derived from the state purchase of co-compost products will be used...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12200
  For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Board" means the California Integrated Waste Management Board, as defined pursuant to Section...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12201
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is the policy of the state to conserve and protect its resources. The Legislature further finds and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12203
  Each state agency shall ensure each of the following: (a) At least 50 percent of reportable purchases are recycled products. (b) The requirements specified in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12205
  (a) (1) All state agencies shall require all businesses to certify in writing the minimum percentage, if not the exact percentage, of postconsumer material in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12207
  This article applies to the purchase of goods and materials from the following product categories: (a) Paper products, including, but not limited to, paper janitorial...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12209
  For purposes of this article, the following minimum content requirements apply: (a) Recycled paper products shall consist of at least 30 percent, by fiber weight,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12211
  (a) Each state agency shall report annually to the board their progress in meeting the recycled product purchasing requirements using the SABRC report format provided...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12215
  Each state agency may, at the discretion of the individual agency director or his or her designee, print a statement on recycled products selected by...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12217
  (a) If at any time a requirement has not been met, the department, in consultation with the board, shall review purchasing policies and shall make...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12300
  Unless otherwise provided, this chapter shall apply to all purchases made on behalf of the Legislature, whether made by the Senate Committee on Rules, the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12301
  The following definitions govern the interpretation of this chapter: (a) "Department" means the Department of General Services. (b) "Board" means the California Integrated Waste Management...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12305
  This chapter applies to the procurement and purchase of the following materials, goods, and supplies, or products containing the following recycled resources, and meeting the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12305.5
  If a recycled product costs more than the same product made with virgin material, the Legislature shall purchase fewer of those more costly products or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12306
  This chapter does not apply to the procurement and purchase of asphalt concrete and portland cement concrete pavement.
• California Public Contract Code Section 12310
  (a) On and after January 1, 1997, at least 50 percent of the total dollar amount of paper products purchased or procured by the Legislature...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12320
  (a) The Legislature shall require contractors to certify in writing to the contracting officer, or his or her representative, whether the materials, goods, or supplies...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12400
  For purposes of this chapter, "environmentally preferable purchasing" means the procurement or acquisition of goods and services that have a lesser or reduced effect on...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12401
  The Department of General Services, in consultation with the California Environmental Protection Agency, members of the public, industry, and public health and environmental organizations, shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12401.5
  Within existing resources, the Department of General Services shall designate a single point of contact for state agencies, suppliers, and other interested parties to contact...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12402
  Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit, limit, or supersede recycled content requirements pursuant to any other provision of law.
• California Public Contract Code Section 12403
  Nothing contained in any policy regarding environmentally preferable purchasing may be construed as requiring the acquisition of goods or services that do not perform adequately...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12404
  Manufacturers, vendors, or other nongovernmental entities contracting with the Department of General Services shall certify in writing that any environmental attribute claims they make concerning...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12500
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Federal Laboratory Contracting Act.
• California Public Contract Code Section 12501
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Technological advances are an important part of California's economy and, therefore, it would be wise...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12501.5
  (a) The Governor shall designate the Secretary of State and Consumer Services as the state's representative for purposes of communicating and negotiating with representatives of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 12502
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a state agency that enters into a prime contract with a federally funded DOE or NASA research and development center...
• California Public Contract Code Section 19100
  (a) Presentation of a claim pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code is not...
• California Public Contract Code Section 19102
  (a) (1) The second lowest bidder, and any person, firm, association, trust, partnership, labor organization, corporation, or other legal entity which has, prior to the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20100
  This chapter may be cited as the Local Agency Public Construction Act.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20101
  (a) Except as provided in Section 20111.5, a public entity subject to this part may require that each prospective bidder for a contract complete and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20102
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part to the contrary, where plans and specifications have been prepared by a public agency, whose activities are subject...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20103.5
  In all contracts subject to this part where federal funds are involved, no bid submitted shall be invalidated by the failure of the bidder to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20103.6
  (a) (1) Any local agency subject to this chapter shall, in the procurement of architectural design services requiring an expenditure in excess of ten thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20103.8
  A local agency may require a bid for a public works contract to include prices for items that may be added to, or deducted from,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20104
  (a) (1) This article applies to all public works claims of three hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($375,000) or less which arise between a contractor and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20104.2
  For any claim subject to this article, the following requirements apply: (a) The claim shall be in writing and include the documents necessary to substantiate...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20104.4
  The following procedures are established for all civil actions filed to resolve claims subject to this article: (a) Within 60 days, but no earlier than...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20104.6
  (a) No local agency shall fail to pay money as to any portion of a claim which is undisputed except as otherwise provided in the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20104.50
  (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to require all local governments to pay their contractors on time so...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20104.70
  (a) (1) The second lowest bidder, and any person, firm, association, trust, partnership, labor organization, corporation, or other legal entity which has, prior to the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20105
  This article shall apply to contracts subject to the State School Building Aid Law of 1949 provided for in Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 15700)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20106
  A school district shall not expend money apportioned under the State School Building Aid Law unless the contracts under which the funds are expended have...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20107
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20110
  The provisions of this part shall apply to contracts awarded by school districts subject to Part 21 (commencing with Section 35000) of Division 3 of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20111
  (a) The governing board of any school district, in accordance with any requirement established by that governing board pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 2000,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20111.5
  (a) The governing board of the district may require that each prospective bidder for a contract, as described under Section 20111, complete and submit to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20112
  For the purpose of securing bids the governing board of a school district shall publish at least once a week for two weeks in some...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20113
  (a) In an emergency when any repairs, alterations, work, or improvement is necessary to any facility of public schools to permit the continuance of existing...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20114
  (a) In each school district, the governing board may make repairs, alterations, additions, or painting, repainting, or decorating upon school buildings, repair or build apparatus...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20115
  For purposes of Section 20114, "maintenance" means routine, recurring, and usual work for the preservation, protection, and keeping of any publicly owned or publicly operated...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20116
  It shall be unlawful to split or separate into smaller work orders or projects any work, project, service, or purchase for the purpose of evading...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20117
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event there are two or more identical lowest or highest bids, as the case may be, submitted...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20118
  Notwithstanding Sections 20111 and 20112, the governing board of any school district, without advertising for bids, if the board has determined it to be in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20118.1
  The governing board of any school district may contract with an acceptable party who is one of the three lowest responsible bidders for the procurement...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20118.2
  (a) Due to the highly specialized and unique nature of technology, telecommunications, related equipment, software, and services, because products and materials of that nature are...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20118.3
  The governing board of any school district may purchase supplementary textbooks, library books, educational films, audiovisual materials, test materials, workbooks, instructional computer software packages, or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20118.4
  (a) If any change or alteration of a contract governed by Article 3 (commencing with Section 17595) of Chapter 5 of Part 10.5 of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20120
  This article applies to public works contracts awarded by counties subject to Title 3 (commencing with Section 23000) of the Government Code. For purposes of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20121
  Whenever the estimated cost of construction of any wharf, chute, or other shipping facility, or of any hospital, almshouse, courthouse, jail, historical museum, aquarium, county...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20121.1
  Notwithstanding Section 20121, a county board of supervisors need not contract for grading, drainage, pipe laying, fencing, landscaping, instrument installation, and similar construction and repair...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20122
  In counties containing a population of 500,000 or over, the work referred to in Section 20121 need not be done by contract if the estimated...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20123
  In counties containing a population of 2,000,000 or over, as determined by the last federal or special census or subsequent estimate validated by the Population...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20123.5
  In any county, it is unlawful to split or separate into smaller work orders or projects any public work project for the purpose of evading...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20124
  The board of supervisors shall adopt plans, specifications, strain sheets, and working details for the work.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20125
  The board shall cause an advertisement for bids for the performance of the work to be published pursuant to Section 6062 of the Government Code...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20126
  Any notice inviting bids which specifies locations of possible materials, such as a borrow pit or gravel bed, for use in the proposed construction project...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20127
  All bidders shall be afforded opportunity to examine the plans, specifications, strain sheets, and working details.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20128
  The board shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder, and the person to whom the contract is awarded shall perform the work in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20128.5
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, the board of supervisors may award individual annual contracts, none of which shall exceed three million dollars ($3,000,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20129
  (a) All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security:...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20130
  If the board of supervisors is advised by the county surveyor or engineer that any wharf, chute, or other shipping facility can be constructed or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20131
  Counties which employ purchasing agents may: (a) Authorize the agent to employ state-licensed independent contractors and purchase materials, furnishings, and supplies used in the construction...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20132
  The board of supervisors of any county may delegate to the county administrative officer or the county executive officer in an equivalent position, the power...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20133
  (a) A county, with approval of the board of supervisors, may utilize an alternative procedure for bidding on construction projects in the county in excess...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20134
  (a) In cases of emergency, when repair or replacements are necessary to permit the continued conduct of county operations or services, the board of supervisors,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20135
  The plans and specifications adopted by the board for the erection, alteration, construction, or repair of any public building or other public structure shall not...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20136
  Whenever the board enters into a contract for the erection, construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or other structure, the contract shall not...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20137
  If any change or alteration of the contract is ordered, it shall be specified in writing by a duly authorized officer of the county. The...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20138
  If the cost of the work is reduced by reason of any modification of the contract, compensation shall be made to the county therefor.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20139
  The board shall not pay or become liable for any extra work done on, or extra material furnished for, any building or structure in the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20140
  The method of payment for construction contracts shall be determined by the board, including progress payments for completed portions of the work and for materials...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20141
  The provisions of this article shall not apply to the construction of any public building used for facilities of juvenile forestry camps or juvenile homes,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20142
  (a) The board of supervisors may, by ordinance, resolution, or board order, authorize the county engineer, or other county officer, to order changes or additions...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20143
  The board may cause the insertion of provisions in any contract for the erection, construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or structure, or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20144
  The provisions of this article do not apply to any contract which is entered into between Napa County and the State of California or any...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20145
  In counties containing a population of 6,000,000 or over, the board of supervisors may by ordinance authorize such county officer as is deemed appropriate to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by counties of 500,000 or less population as provided for in Part 2 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in subdivision (b), every county, whether general law or charter, containing a population of less...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150.2
  As used in this article, "public project" means: (a) A project for the erection, improvement, and repair of public buildings and works. (b) Work in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150.3
  Expenditures for public projects shall not include the costs of: (a) Equipment, supplies and materials acquired by a public agency to enable the timely completion...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150.4
  Public projects between four thousand dollars ($4,000) and ten thousand dollars ($10,000) shall be let to contract by informal or formal bidding procedures. Public projects...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150.5
  Each county shall adopt ordinances or regulations providing for formal and informal bidding procedures as required by this article for public projects conducted by such
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150.6
  Ordinances or regulations establishing informal bidding procedures shall provide that the county shall, as soon as is practicable after the time for the renewal of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150.7
  The notice inviting informal bids shall be by published notice and may, in addition, be supplemented by mailed notice to contractors registered pursuant to Section...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150.8
  The notices inviting formal bids shall state the time and place for the receiving and opening of sealed bids and distinctly state the project to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150.9
  In its discretion, the county may reject any bids presented. If, after the first invitation for bids, all bids are rejected, after reevaluating its cost...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150.10
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 20150.9, on any project which is less than seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000), if, after the first invitation for bids, all...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150.11
  It shall be unlawful to split or separate into smaller work orders or projects any public project for the purpose of evading the provisions of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150.12
  The board of supervisors of the county shall adopt plans, specifications, and working details for all public projects the expenditure for which exceeds ten thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150.13
  All bidders on public projects which exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in cost, shall be afforded the opportunity to examine the plans, specifications, and working...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20150.14
  The provisions of this article shall not apply to the construction of any public building used for facilities of juvenile forestry camps or juvenile homes,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20160
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts awarded by cities subject to Title 4 (commencing with Section 34000) of the Government Code.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20161
  As used in this chapter, "public project" means: (a) A project for the erection, improvement, painting, or repair of public buildings and works. (b) Work...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20162
  When the expenditure required for a public project exceeds five thousand dollars ($5,000), it shall be contracted for and let to the lowest responsible bidder...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20163
  It shall be unlawful to split or separate into smaller work orders or projects any public work project for the purpose of evading the provisions...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20164
  The notice inviting bids shall set a date for the opening of bids. The first publication or posting of the notice shall be at least...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20165
  Any notice inviting bids, which specifies locations of possible materials, such as a borrow pit or gravel bed, for use in the proposed construction project...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20166
  In its discretion, the legislative body may reject any bids presented and readvertise. If two or more bids are the same and the lowest, the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20167
  After rejecting bids, the legislative body may pass a resolution by a four-fifths vote of its members declaring that the project can be performed more...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20168
  In case of an emergency, the legislative body may pass a resolution by a four-fifths vote of its members declaring that the public interest and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20168.5
  In any city that has agreed to permit the transfer of prisoners or parole violators under Section 2910 or 2910.5 of the Penal Code, or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20169
  Annually before the beginning of the fiscal year, in cities where there is more than one newspaper of general circulation printed and published, the legislative...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20170
  All bids shall be presented under sealed cover and accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a) Cash. (b) Cashier's check made...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20171
  The security shall be in an amount equal to at least 10 percent of the amount bid. A bid shall not be considered unless one...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20172
  If the successful bidder fails to execute the contract, the amount of the bidder's security shall be forfeited to the city except as hereinafter provided.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20173
  The cash or proceeds shall be deposited in the fund out of which the expenses of preparation and printing of the plans and specifications, estimates...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20174
  The city council may, on refusal or failure of the successful bidder to execute the contract, award it to the next lowest responsible bidder. If...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20175.2
  (a) (1) A city, with approval of the appropriate city council, may utilize an alternative procedure for bidding on building construction projects in the city...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20185
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts awarded by local agencies for earthquake relief subject to Article 5 (commencing with Section 54125) of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20186
  Any resolution authorizing bonds may provide that the bonds may recite that it is issued pursuant to this chapter and bonds containing such recital are...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20187
  Reference on the face of bonds to the resolution by its date of adoption incorporates the resolution and of this chapter the bonds and their
• California Public Contract Code Section 20188
  Each taker and subsequent holder of the bonds and attached or detached coupons has recourse to all of the provisions of the resolution and of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20189
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20190
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts subject to the Municipal Utility District Act provided for in Division 6 (commencing with Section 11501)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20191
  Any district operating utility works may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this division requiring approval of indebtedness, loans from any person, firm,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20192
  (a) Whenever the cost of construction of any office building, warehouse, or garage of the district constructed under Section 20191 exceeds the sum of two...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20193
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the limitations of this article, a qualified entity, with approval of its governing body,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20194
  (a) The authority for design-build projects contained in this article is a new and independent authorization and shall not supersede, limit, or restrict any other...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20195
  This article shall remain in effect until January 1, 2020, or until the date upon which the Legislative Analyst has submitted the report required pursuant...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20200
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts subject to the Public Utility District Act provided for in Division 7 (commencing with Section 16051)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20201
  Every complete project for new construction or project for any alteration, maintenance, or repair, if the costs of materials, supplies and labor exceed fifteen thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20201.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20202.1
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by public utility districts as provided for in the Public Utility District Act pursuant to Division...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20202.2
  A district may make contracts, employ labor, and do all acts necessary and convenient for the full exercise of its powers.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20204.1
  All bidders shall be afforded an opportunity to examine such plans and specifications, and the board shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder....
• California Public Contract Code Section 20204.2
  The person or corporation to whom the contract is awarded shall execute a bond, to be approved by the board, for the faithful performance of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20204.3
  All bids for construction work submitted pursuant to this article shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20205.1
  In case of an emergency, the board shall respond to the emergency pursuant to Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 22050) if notice for bids to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20205.2
  Nothing in this article prohibits the board from doing or causing to be done directly by the district, and without any contract, any or all...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20206.1
  Upon the determination of the board by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of its members that all bids submitted are unsatisfactory or are excessive, the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20206.2
  Plans and specifications when once adopted shall not be altered or changed in any manner whereby the cost of the proposed work is increased, except...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20206.3
  A contract made under this article shall not be altered or changed in any manner, except when first ordered by a vote of two-thirds of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20206.4
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, the board may annually advertise for sealed bids for furnishing the district with goods, merchandise, stores, subsistence, printing,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20206.5
  All bids shall be upon a schedule prepared by the clerk, showing all articles needed by the district and its several offices and stating separately...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20206.6
  Notices of proposals for furnishing articles shall mention the articles in general and shall state that the conditions and schedule may be found in the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20206.9
  The clerk shall furnish printed blanks for all proposals and contracts.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20207.1
  In considering bids the board may accept or reject all or any of them, or may accept or reject part of a bid, preference being...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20207.2
  All supplies furnished the district or its officers shall be furnished at a price no greater than is specified in the bid accepted by the
• California Public Contract Code Section 20207.3
  All bids shall be opened by the board at an hour and place to be stated in the advertisements for proposals, in the presence of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20207.4
  All contracts shall be made with the lowest responsible bidder. Bidders for construction contracts shall give bonds for the faithful performance of the construction contract.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20207.5
  "Advertising" means the advertising and publication of all official reports, orders, ordinances, resolutions, notices inviting proposals, and all notices of every nature relating to work...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20207.6
  No officer or employee of the district shall order any article or make any publication which is not expressly authorized by this division or by...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20207.7
  Unless the amount involved in the purchase at any one time of any articles for which no contract has been entered into exceeds ten thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any transit district may negotiate the purchase from, or the sale to, any federal, state, or local public agency...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.5
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Best value" means a value determined by objective criteria and may include,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.6
  When it is in the best interest of the transit operator, the transit operator may enter into a design-build contract for both the design and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.7
  Design-build projects shall progress in a three-step process, as follows: (a) The transit operator shall prepare a set of documents setting forth the scope of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.8
  Criteria used in the evaluation of proposals may include, but need not be limited to, the proposed design approach, life-cycle costs, project features, and project...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.9
  If the governing body of a transit operator elects to award a transit capital project through the design-build selection process pursuant to this article, all...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.10
  (a) Any design-build entity that is selected to design and build a project pursuant to this article shall possess or obtain sufficient bonding and errors...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.11
  (a) The minimum performance criteria and design standards established pursuant to this article by a transit operator for quality, durability, longevity, life-cycle costs, and other...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.12
  Each transit operator that elects to proceed under this article and use the design-build method on a public works project shall prepare and deliver to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.13
  (a) Unless expressly set forth in this article, nothing in this article is intended to affect, expand, alter, or limit any rights or remedies otherwise...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.14
  This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2011, and as of that date is repealed.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.20
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: This project is subject to the existing process under the state transportation improvement program (Chapter 2...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.22
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Authority" means the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. (b) "Department" means the Department...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.23
  The authority may utilize the design-build procurement method for the construction of a high-occupancy vehicle lane in the County of Los Angeles designated in the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.24
  The authority shall implement a labor compliance program as described in Section 1771.5 of the Labor Code, or it shall contract with a third party...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.26
  Bidding for the project shall progress as follows: (a) (1) The authority, with the approval of the department, shall prepare or cause to be prepared,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.27
  For purposes of this article, prebid services include preliminary engineering studies and other activities that lead to the selection of a project alternative. These activities...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.28
  (a) Any design-build entity that is selected to design and build the project under this article shall possess or obtain sufficient bonding to cover the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.30
  All bids by subcontractors that were not listed by the design-build entity in accordance with subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.32
  (a) A deviation from the performance criteria and standards established under subdivision (a) of Section 20209.26 may not be authorized except by written consent of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.34
  Quality control inspection for the construction of the project utilizing the design-build approach authorized by this article shall be performed by employees of the department.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.36
  Nothing in this article affects, expands, alters, or limits any rights or remedies otherwise available at law.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.38
  (a) The retention proceeds withheld by the authority from a design-build entity shall not exceed 5 percent. (b) The authority shall not withhold retention from...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.40
  Not later than three years after a design-build contract is awarded, the authority shall submit a progress report to the Senate Committee on Transportation and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20209.44
  This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2010, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20210
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by transit districts in the counties of Alameda or Contra Costa, as provided for in Part...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20211
  The purchase of all supplies, equipment, and materials, when the expenditure required exceeds twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), and the construction of facilities and works, when...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20212
  If after rejecting bids the board determines and declares by a four-fifths vote of all its members that in its opinion the supplies, equipment and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20213
  In case of an emergency, the board may, by resolution passed by a four-fifths vote of all its members, declare and determine that public interest...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20214
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20216
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any contract by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, the Southern California Rapid Transit District, the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20217
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the award of purchase contracts by transit agencies under competitive bid procedures may not be feasible for products...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20220
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, as provided for in Part 2 (commencing...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20221
  (a) The purchase of all supplies, equipment, and materials when the expenditure required exceeds one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) shall be by contract let to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20221.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing board of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District may, at its discretion, elect to design...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20222
  If after rejecting bids the board determines and declares by a two-thirds vote of all its members that in its opinion the supplies, equipment and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20223
  In case of an emergency, the board may, by resolution passed by a two-thirds vote of all its members, declare and determine that public interest...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20224
  Upon determining that immediate remedial measures to avert or alleviate damage to property, or to repair or restore damaged or destroyed property, of the district...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20224.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20225
  The general manager may establish districtwide purchasing standards, the purpose of which is to insure the necessary quality of supplies and equipment purchased by, or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20226
  Notwithstanding Section 20221, and upon a finding by two-thirds of all members of the board that the proposed purchase in compliance with Sections 20221 and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20227
  Notwithstanding Section 20221, the board may direct the purchase of any supply, equipment, or material without observance of any provision requiring contracts, bids, or notice...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20228
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 20221, work on the Oakland Wye complex to the MacArthur Station project and on the Daly City turnback and storage facilities project...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20229
  In order to facilitate the participation of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in nonfederally funded contracts consistent with federally funded contracts, the district may establish for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20229.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing board of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District may direct the purchase of (1)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20230
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Southern California Rapid Transit District, as provided for in Part 3 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20231.5
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the award of purchase contracts by the Southern California Rapid Transit District under competitive bid procedures may not...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20232
  If, after rejecting bids, the board determines and declares by a vote of two-thirds of all its members that in its opinion the supplies, equipment...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20233
  In case of an emergency, the board may, by resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of all its members, declare and determine that public...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20234
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20240
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Orange County Transit District, as provided for in Part 4 (commencing with Section 40000)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20241
  The purchase of all services, supplies, equipment, and materials, and construction of facilities and works, shall be done in the same manner, procedure and subject...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20242
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20250
  This article applies to contracts by the San Joaquin Regional Transit District, as provided for in Part 5 (commencing with Section 50000) of Division 10...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20251
  (a) The purchase of all supplies, equipment, and materials, when the expenditure required exceeds fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), shall be by contract let to the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20251.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20252
  If after rejecting bids the board determines and declares by a four-fifths vote of all its members that in its opinion the supplies, equipment and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20253
  In case of an emergency, the board may, by resolution passed by a four-fifths vote of all its members, declare and determine that public interest...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20260
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Marin County Transit District, as provided for in Part 7 (commencing with Section 70000)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20261
  The purchase of all supplies, equipment and materials, and construction of facilities and works, shall be done in the same manner, procedure and subject to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20262
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20270
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the San Diego County Transit District, as provided for in Part 8 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20271
  The purchase of all supplies, equipment and materials, and the construction of facilities and works, when the expenditure required exceeds five thousand dollars ($5,000), shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20272
  If after rejecting bids the board determines and declares by a two-thirds vote of all its members that in its opinion the supplies, equipment and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20273
  In case of an emergency, the board may, by resolution passed by a two-thirds vote of all its members, declare and determine that the public...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20274
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20280
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District, as provided for in Part 9 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20281
  The purchase of all supplies, equipment and materials, when the expenditure required exceeds twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), and the construction of facilities and works, when...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20282
  If after rejecting bids the board determines and declares by a four-fifths vote of all its members that in its opinion the supplies, equipment and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20283
  In case of an emergency, the board may, by resolution passed by a four-fifths vote of all its members, declare and determine that public interest...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20284
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20290
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District, as provided for in Part 10 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20291
  The purchase of all supplies, equipment and materials, when the expenditure required exceeds twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), and construction of facilities and works, when the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20292
  If after rejecting bids the board determines and declares a four-fifths vote of all its members that in its opinion the supplies, equipment and materials...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20293
  In case of an emergency, the board may, by resolution passed by a majority vote of all its members, declare and determine that public interest...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20294
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20300
  The provisions of this article apply to contracts by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, as provided for in Part 12 (commencing with Section 100000)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20301
  The purchase of all supplies, equipment, and materials, when the expenditure required exceeds twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), shall be by contract let to the lowest...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20301.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 20301, the district may let a design-and-build contract for any project for a transit center or station, transit park-and-ride lot, bus and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20302
  If after rejecting bids the board determines and declares by two-thirds vote of all its members that in its opinion, the supplies, equipment, and materials...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20303
  In case of an emergency, as defined under Section 1102, the board, upon adopting a resolution passed by a four-fifths vote of all its members,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20304
  Notwithstanding Section 20301, the board may direct the purchase of any supply, equipment, or material without observance of any provision requiring contracts, bids, or notice...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20305
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20306
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the award of purchase contracts by the district under competitive bid procedures may not be feasible for products...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20310
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Golden Empire Transit District, as provided for in Part 13 (commencing with Section 101000)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20311
  The purchase of all supplies, equipment, and materials, and the construction of facilities and works, when the expenditure required exceeds ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20312
  If, after rejecting bids, the board determines and declares by a four-fifths vote of all its members that, in its opinion, the supplies, equipment, and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20313
  In case of an emergency, the board may, by resolution passed by a four-fifths vote of all its members, declare and determine that public interest...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20314
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20320
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Sacramento Regional Transit District, as provided for in Part 14 (commencing with Section 102000)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20321
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), contracts for the construction of transit works or transit facilities in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000) shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20322
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20323
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the award of purchase contracts by the Sacramento Regional Transit District under competitive bid procedures may not be...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20324
  Notwithstanding Section 20321, the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Regional Transit District may construct all or any part of the Folsom Corridor Light Rail...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20330
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the San Mateo County Transit District, as provided for in Part 15 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20331
  Contracts for the construction of transit works or transit facilities in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20332
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20340
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board, as provided for in Division 11 (commencing with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20341
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), contracts for construction in excess of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20342
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20350
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the North San Diego County Transit Development Board, as provided for in Division 11.5 (commencing...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20351
  Contracts for the construction in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder after competitive bidding, except in an...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20352
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20355
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District, as provided for in Part 16 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20355.1
  The purchase of all supplies, equipment, and materials when the expenditure required exceeds forty thousand dollars ($40,000), and the construction of facilities and works when...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20355.2
  If after rejecting bids the district determines that the supplies, equipment, and materials may be purchased at a lower price in the open market, the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20355.3
  In case of an emergency, the board may, by resolution passed by a two-thirds vote of all its members, declare and determine that public interest...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20355.4
  (a) Upon determining that immediate remedial measures are necessary to avert or alleviate damage to property of the district or to repair or restore damaged...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20355.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20355.6
  Notwithstanding Section 20355.1, and upon a finding by two-thirds of all members of the board that the proposed purchase in compliance with Sections 20355.1 and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20355.7
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing board of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District may direct the purchase of (1) electronic equipment,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20360
  This article applies to contracts by the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission for rail transit facilities.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20361
  As used in this article, the following terms have the definitions provided: (a) "Commission" means the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission. (b) "Department" means the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20362
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission may solicit proposals from, and negotiate and enter into agreements with, private entities for the study,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20363
  For purposes of facilitating these projects, the agreements may include provisions for the lease of facilities, rights-of-way, and airspace, exercise of the power of eminent...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20364
  (a) The commission may exercise any power it possesses to facilitate the implementation of rail transit systems and related facilities pursuant to this article. (b)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20365
  (a) The commission and the department may enter into agreements with each other that define the responsibilities of each party in implementing the program pursuant...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20366
  Projects authorized by this article shall do all of the following: (a) Provide an opportunity to utilize advanced rail transit technology. (b) Retain for the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20367
  All contracts entered into pursuant to this article shall include a requirement that the contractor exercise good faith efforts to achieve the disadvantaged business enterprise...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20368
  A project constructed pursuant to this article is a public works project for purposes of Section 1720 of the Labor Code.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20369
  Construction or operation of a project may require the relocation, replacement, or alteration of facilities of another public agency or private owner. The costs of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20370
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Fresno Metropolitan Transit District, as provided for in Chapter 1932 of the Statutes of
• California Public Contract Code Section 20371
  The purchase of all supplies, equipment and materials, and the construction of facilities and works, when the expenditure required exceeds three thousand dollars ($3,000), shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20372
  If after rejecting bids the board determines and declares by a four-fifths vote of all its members that in its opinion the supplies, equipment and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20373
  In case of any great public calamity, such as an extraordinary fire, flood, storm, epidemic, or other disaster, the board may, by resolution passed by...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20374
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20380
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the West Bay Rapid Transit Authority, as provided for in Chapter 104 of the Statutes...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20381
  The authority may construct the system or any part thereof, and acquire all property necessary therefor on terms and conditions that it deems advisable. The...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20390
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by boards of supervisors for the construction, repair, or maintenance of a county highway, as provided...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20391
  Whenever the board of supervisors finds that the estimated expense of any necessary work upon any county highway exceeds the sum of twenty thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20392
  Upon receipt of such profiles, cross sections, plans, and specifications, the board shall publish a notice calling for sealed bids for the performance of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20392.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20393
  At the time specified in the notice, the board shall publicly open all bids received and shall award the contract for the work to the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20394
  Whenever the board finds that the estimated expense of any work to be done upon any county highway is twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or less,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20394.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, whenever the board of supervisors finds that the estimated expense of any work to be done upon any...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20395
  In any county that has appointed a road commissioner pursuant to Section 2006 of the Streets and Highways Code, or in any county that has...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20396
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any county employing a competent engineer as road commissioner, the board of supervisors may elect to perform work...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20397
  In counties containing a population of two million or over and employing a registered engineer as road commissioner, the board of supervisors may authorize the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20400
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by boards of supervisors for the construction, maintenance and repair of a county bridge or subway,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20402
  Except as provided in Sections 20406 to 20408, inclusive, whenever the cost of construction or repair of any bridge will exceed the sum of two...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20403
  Whenever the board of supervisors finds that the estimated expense of any work to be done on any county bridge is ten thousand dollars ($10,000)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20404
  The board of supervisors shall adopt plans, specifications, and working details for such construction or repair and shall cause a notice, calling for bids therefor,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20405
  (a) The board shall afford all bidders an opportunity to examine the plans, specifications, and working details, and shall award the contract to the lowest...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20406
  If the board of supervisors is advised by the county surveyor or, in a county not having a county surveyor, by the officer having similar...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20407
  In the event of great emergency, including, but not limited to, states of disaster defined in Section 8558 of the Government Code, upon the majority...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20409
  The board of supervisors may authorize such road commissioner to employ such workmen and purchase such materials, equipment, tools, and appliances and cause such work...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20396
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any county employing a competent engineer as road commissioner, the board of supervisors may elect to perform work...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20397
  In counties containing a population of two million or over and employing a registered engineer as road commissioner, the board of supervisors may authorize the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20410
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by legislative bodies for the doing of work or the furnishing of materials, supplies and equipment,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20411
  Before the legislative body awards any contract for doing any work or for furnishing materials, supplies and equipment or any portion thereof, authorized by this...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20412
  Notice shall be posted inviting sealed proposals or bids for doing such work, or for furnishing materials, supplies and equipment or any portion thereof. Notice...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20413
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20414
  The proposals or bids shall be delivered to the clerk, or any other officer designated by the legislative body, and the legislative body shall, in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20415
  The legislative body may reject any and all proposals or bids should it deem this for the public good, and also the bid of any...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20416
  Whenever the total amount bid by the lowest responsible bidder plus the estimated amount of incidental costs would result in assessments under this division which...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20417
  If the bids are rejected or no bids are received the legislative body may readvertise for proposals or bids for the performance of the work...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20418
  The check or bond accompanying any proposal or bid which is accepted shall be held by the clerk until the contract for doing the work...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20419
  If any local, state or national agency or authority contributes the labor, or labor and any portion of the materials, supplies or equipment necessary for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20420
  Notice of the award of the contract shall be published by the clerk. The clerk shall, upon payment of the statutory fee prescribed therefor, record...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20421
  The owners of three-fourths of the area of lands liable to be assessed, or their agents (who shall make oath that they are the owners...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20422
  If the owners fail to elect to take the work, and to enter into a written contract therefor within 10 days, or to commence the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20423
  If the original bidder neglects, fails or refuses, for 25 days after the first publication of the notice of the award of the contract, to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20424
  If no bids are received in response to this second call for bids, the legislative body may again advertise for and receive bids under the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20425
  The bids of all persons and the election of all owners who have previously failed to enter into the contract shall be rejected in any...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20426
  All contractors, contracting owners included, shall, at the time of executing any contract for the work, execute a bond to the satisfaction and approval of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20427
  At any time prior to publication and posting notice inviting bids, the legislative body by resolution, may determine that in the event that the contractor,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20428
  If the owner or contractor who may have taken any contract does not complete the work within the time limited in the contract, or within...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20429
  Before being entitled to a contract, the bidder to whom the award was made, or the owners who have elected to take the contract, must...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20430
  If the work is abandoned by the city before work is actually started or before any materials, supplies or equipment have been furnished or used,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20431
  At any time within 10 days from the date of the first publication of the notice of award of the contract, any owner of, or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20432
  All objections to any act or proceeding occurring prior to the time within which such objections are permitted to be filed in relation to the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20433
  If in the opinion of the legislative body the public interest will not be served by allowing the property owners to take the contract it...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20434
  An action to determine the validity of proceedings relating to the work and the validity of any contract entered or to be entered into pursuant...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20435
  In such action, all findings, conclusions and determinations of the legislative body which conducted the proceedings shall be conclusive in the absence of actual fraud.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20436
  If an action is commenced under the provisions of this chapter to determine the validity of any contract or proposed contract, and the contract has...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20436.5
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the action authorized by this chapter shall not be brought by any person other than the legislative body or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20437
  The superintendent of streets is hereby authorized in his official capacity to make all written contracts, and to receive all bonds authorized by this division...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20438
  He shall fix the time for the commencement, which shall not be more than 45 days from the date of the contract, and for the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20439
  He may extend the time fixed for completion of the work from time to time, under the direction of the legislative body. All applications for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20440
  The work, in all cases, shall be done under the direction and to the satisfaction of the superintendent of streets and the materials used shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20441
  The legislative body also may by resolution adopted within 10 days after the passage of the resolution ordering the work provide and direct that the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20442
  The contract shall contain express notice that, in no case, except where it is otherwise provided by law or by charter will the city, or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20443
  The legislative body may, by ordinance, prescribe general rules directing the superintendent of streets or the engineer, as the case may be, and the contractor...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20444
  If any fiscal agent of the United States government contributes any money or materials to be used in the construction of any work provided for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20445
  If a contribution of labor or of labor and any portion of materials, supplies or equipment is to be made by any local, state or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20446
  "Changes" as used in this chapter shall include corrections, alterations, modifications, additions, omissions, increases or decreases.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20447
  Unless the power to proceed shall have ceased at the conclusion of the hearing on the resolution of intention because of a majority protest, at...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20448
  At the hearing on the resolution of intention, the legislative body, without further notice and hearing, may order any changes, as defined in Sections 20446...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20449
  Before ordering any changes made, the legislative body shall adopt a resolution briefly describing the changes proposed to be made, stating the amount of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20450
  If a resolution required under Section 20449 proposes to include additional territory in the assessment district, at least 15 days prior to the hearing fixed...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20451
  Written objections to the proposed changes may be filed with the clerk by any interested person at any time not later than the time set...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20452
  (a) No changes, except as provided in Section 20453, shall be made pursuant to this chapter that will increase the estimated assessable cost by more...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20453
  Changes may exceed the 20-percent limitation in cost when the legislative body orders such changes. That portion of the added cost which exceeds the 20-percent...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20454
  Any changes made pursuant to this chapter shall not release or discharge the sureties upon any bond required under this division.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20455
  (a) After construction has begun, the legislative body, or the superintendent of streets if authorized by the legislative body, may order changes in the work...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20456
  Subject to the limitations of Section 20455, the contract may include a provision to determine a fair and equitable price for changes in the work,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20457
  Every contractor, to whom is awarded any contract for street work under this division, shall at the time of signing and executing the contract, file...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20458
  The bond shall provide that the contractor or subcontractor shall pay for any materials, provisions, provender, or other supplies or use of implements or machinery...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20459
  Any person furnishing materials, provisions, provender or other supplies used in, upon, for or about the performance of the work contracted to be executed or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20460
  Each person whose claim has not been paid by the contractor or his subcontractors, shall have a first lien upon and against the assessment, any...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20461
  No assignment by the contractor of the whole or any part of the money, assessment, partial assessment, any reassessment and any bonds which may be...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20462
  If any contractor disputes the correctness or validity of any claim filed pursuant to this chapter, the city or superintendent of streets may permit the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20463
  The bond shall guarantee the payment of any sum which the claimant may recover on the claim together with his costs of suit in the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20464
  Suit against the sureties on the bond of the contractor filed pursuant to this chapter may be brought by any claimant, or his assigns, at...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20470
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by Separation of Grade Districts, as provided for in Part 2 (commencing with Section 8100) of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20471
  The commission shall, pursuant to an order entered in the minutes, advertise for bids for the construction of the project either as a whole or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20471.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidders security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20472
  Every contract for the construction of the project or for any section, if it is to be constructed in sections, shall be let, after advertisement,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20473
  Before the making of any contract the bidder shall give a bond to the district for the faithful performance of his contract, which shall be...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20474
  The contract shall be executed on behalf of the district by the commission, subject to approval or rejection by the electors of the district, expressed...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20475
  The commission may do any or all maintenance or repair work upon the project, either with or without contract, and with or without advertising for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20476
  The commission may hire all necessary engineers, inspectors and superintendents to supervise the performance of contracts entered into by the commission, or to have charge...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20477
  As to any project involving a state highway where the plans have been approved by the Department of Transportation, Division of Highways, the commission and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20480
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by cities, cities and counties, or counties, or other entities, public corporations, or agencies authorized to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20481
  At any time after the preliminary approval of the report provided for in Section 10300 of the Streets and Highways Code, the legislative body may...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20482
  Each contract shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder after notice inviting sealed proposals is published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20483
  (a) All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20484
  Notice of award of the contract shall be published by the clerk of the legislative body once in the newspaper in which the notice of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20485
  The owners of three-fourths of the area of lands assessed or liable to be assessed, or their agents (who shall make oath that they are...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20486
  If the owners fail to elect to take the work and to enter into a written contract therefor within 10 days, or to commence the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20487
  If, in the opinion of the legislative body, the public interest will not be served by allowing the property owners to take a contract, it...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20488
  The contract shall provide that the work shall be done strictly in accordance with the plans and specifications contained in the report provided for in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20489
  The provisions of the Improvement Act of 1911 relating to liquidated damages are incorporated in this division.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20490
  If the contractor abandons the work, or fails to proceed with the work as rapidly as required by his contract, the legislative body may declare...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20491
  At any time within 10 days after the award of any contract pursuant to this chapter, or if no bids are received, at any time...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20492
  If the work is abandoned by the city before work is actually started or before any materials, supplies or equipment have been furnished or used,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20496
  The provisions of Title 15 (commencing with Section 3082), Part 4, Division 3, of the Civil Code are hereby expressly made applicable to the construction...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20497
  If in the opinion of the legislative body the public interest will not be served by allowing the property owners to take the contract it...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20500
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by a city council, as provided in the Street Lighting Act of 1919, Part 1 (commencing...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20501
  (a) The city council shall, within 10 days after the establishment of the district, invite bids for the making of the improvement by ordering a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20502
  The contract shall require that the improvement be made, and the improvement shall be made, strictly in accordance with the plans and specifications contained in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20503
  The improvement shall be made under the supervision of the board, officer or person designated by the city council, and no portion shall be paid...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20504
  If the contractor abandons the making of the improvement, or fails to proceed with it as rapidly as required by his contract, the city council...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20505
  The city council may, at any time within 20 days after the opening of bids, or, if no bids are received, at any time within...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20506
  If the work of the improvement, or any part thereof, is executed by the city, then the amount appropriated and used from the special fund...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20507
  At any time after the funds for the proposed improvement, or any part thereof, are in the hands of the city treasurer, the city council...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20510
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by a city council, as provided in the Street Lighting Act of 1931, Part 2 (commencing...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20511
  At any time after the installment assessment becomes delinquent, the superintendent of streets may call for bids for such improvement and may fix a date,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20512
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security which...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20513
  The contract shall specify a date certain when the improvement shall be started, the date to be not more than 30 days after the execution...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20514
  The city council may, by resolution passed prior to the notice inviting bids, impose such other reasonable conditions, including faithful performance bonds and materialmen's bonds,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20520
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by a city council, as provided in the Municipal Lighting Maintenance District Act of 1927, Part...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20521
  The city council shall make all contracts and all necessary provisions for the furnishing of the maintenance and operation finally determined upon for the lighting...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20522
  (a) All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security:...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20530
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by a joint highway district, as provided in the Joint Highway District Act, Part 1 (commencing...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20531
  All construction work shall be done by contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder after advertising for bids in a newspaper of general circulation published...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20532
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20533
  All bids shall be delivered to the secretary of the board of directors not later than the hour fixed for receiving bids and shall thereafter...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20534
  The board of directors shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. However, before awarding the contract the board may: (a) Reject all bids...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20535
  If all bids have been rejected because it appears that they are too high and that the work can be done more cheaply by day...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20536
  The bidder to whom any contract is awarded shall, within 20 days after the date of the award by the board of directors, execute a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20537
  Before the contract is executed, the person to whom it is awarded shall execute bonds for the faithful performance of the contract and for the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20538
  All of the bonds shall be executed by the bidder and by a corporate surety duly authorized to do business as such under the laws...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20539
  The president or vice president and secretary or assistant secretary shall sign and attest all construction contracts on behalf of the district.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20540
  All construction contracts shall provide that a maximum of eight hours shall constitute a day's labor and that three dollars ($3) shall be the minimum...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20541
  If any bidder to whom a contract is awarded fails to enter into the contract and execute the required bonds, the board of directors shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20550
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by a boulevard district, as provided for in Part 2 (commencing with Section 26000) of Division...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20551
  The commission shall, pursuant to an order entered in its minutes, advertise for bids for the construction of the boulevard, either as a whole or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20551.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20552
  Every contract for the construction of the boulevard or for any section, if it is to be constructed in sections, shall be let, after advertisement,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20553
  Before the making of any contract the bidder shall give a bond to the district for the faithful performance of his contract, which shall be...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20554
  The contract shall be executed on behalf of the district by the commission, subject to approval or rejection by the electors of the district, expressed...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20555
  If the cost of any construction work on the boulevard does not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) the commission may make contracts therefor without advertisement...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20556
  The commission may do any or all maintenance or repair work upon the boulevard, either with or without contract, and with or without advertising for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20557
  The commission may hire all necessary engineers, inspectors and superintendents to supervise the performance of contracts entered into by the commission, or to have charge...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20560
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by irrigation districts, as provided for in the Irrigation District Law, Division 11 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20561
  As used in this article "works" is limited to any works to be paid for with the proceeds of the sale of bonds or a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20562
  Contracts for the construction of any works shall be made pursuant to the provisions of this article except when the board, with the approval of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20563
  The board shall give notice by publication once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county in which the principal...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20564
  The notice calling for bids shall contain: (a) A statement that the plans and specifications of the works to be constructed may be seen at...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20564.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20565
  At the time and place appointed the bids shall be opened in public.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20566
  After opening the bids and as convenient the board shall award the contract or contracts for the works either in portions or as a whole...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20567
  In case of an emergency, if notice for bids to let contracts will not be given, the board shall comply with Chapter 2.5 (commencing with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20568
  Contracts for the purchase of material to be furnished or used by the district in the works shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20569
  Any person to whom a contract may be awarded pursuant to this article shall provide a bond approved by the board, payable to the district...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20570
  The works shall be constructed under the direction and to the satisfaction of the engineer of the district and be subject to the approval of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20580
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by water storage districts, as provided for in the California Water Storage District Law, Division 14...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20581
  Before making any contract for the construction or improvement of works in carrying out any project totaling twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or more, the board...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20582
  When work is to be done, the board shall give notice calling for bids by publication in the county in which the principal office of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20583
  If less than the whole work provided for in the plans and specifications is to be done, the portion to be done must be particularly...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20584
  The notice shall set forth that: (a) Plans and specifications of the work to be done can be seen at the office of the board....
• California Public Contract Code Section 20584.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20585
  The board may either: (a) Let the work to the lowest responsible bidder. (b) Reject any or all bids and readvertise for proposals. (c) Proceed...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20586
  In case of an emergency, if notice for bids to let contracts will not be given, the board shall comply with Chapter 2.5 (commencing with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20587
  Contracts for the purchase of materials only shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, except that the board may reject any or all bids...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20588
  Upon receipt of an offer for a less price than that specified in the lowest rejected bid, the board may enter into a contract for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20589
  Any person to whom a contract is awarded shall enter into a bond, to be approved by the board, payable to the district for its...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20590
  All contracts and other documents executed by the board shall be signed by the president and by the secretary.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20600
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by county waterworks districts, as provided for in the County Waterworks District Law, Division 16 (commencing...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20601
  All contracts in excess of three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500) shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, except that contracts under seven thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20602
  The district shall advertise in the county pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code, inviting sealed proposals for furnishing labor, materials and supplies for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20602.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20603
  The district shall have the right to require such bonds as it may deem best from the successful bidder, to insure the faithful performance of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20604
  In case of an emergency, if notice for bids to let contracts will not be given, the district shall comply with Chapter 2.5 (commencing with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20605
  When the board of supervisors and the board of directors of the district, if any, determine that any work of repairing, improving, renewing or extending...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20606
  Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting the county when ordered by the board of supervisors, or the city when ordered by...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20607
  The board of supervisors may, except in incorporated cities or towns, order and contract for any of the work, and the acquisition of any of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20608
  Any improvement for which bonds are voted under the provisions of this division, shall be made in conformity with the general description of the proposed...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20609
  Whenever for any reason water system facilities are proposed to be installed in a district by someone other than the district itself, or the installation...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20610
  The reimbursement contract may provide that the reimbursement will be made in periodic payments over an agreed period of time not to exceed 10 years,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20611
  Under no circumstances shall the total amount of all reimbursement payments made or agreed to be made exceed the amount, specified in said contract, for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20612
  Whenever a district has contracted to reimburse an installer for the installation of water system facilities, it may impose upon land and collect from any...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20613
  All charges collected under Section 20612 shall be paid into the treasury of the district and treated in the same manner as other water revenues,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20620
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by county drainage districts, as provided for in the County Drainage District Act, Division 17 (commencing...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20621
  Upon completion of the precise plans and specifications, the work or any portion of it may be done in any of the following ways as...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20622
  Any contract for the doing of the work and furnishing any or all of the material shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder submitting...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20623
  The notice shall be published once a week for at least two successive weeks in a newspaper circulated in the county and shall refer to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20624
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20630
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by levee districts, as provided for in the Levee District Law of 1959, Division 19 (commencing...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20631
  Contracts in excess of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for the construction or repair of any levees or associated works, unless the construction or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20632
  The board shall give notice by publication, pursuant to Section 6063 of the Government Code, in calling for bids for the construction or repair of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20633
  The notice calling for bids shall contain: (a) A statement that the plans and specifications of the construction or repairs may be seen at the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20633.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20634
  After opening the bids, and as convenient, the board shall award the contract or contracts for the construction or repair in portions, or as a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20635
  In case of an emergency, if notice for bids to let contracts will not be given, the board shall comply with Chapter 2.5 (commencing with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20640
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by municipal water districts, as provided for in the Municipal Water District Law of 1911, Division...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20641
  A district may prescribe methods for the construction of works and for the letting of contracts for any of the following purposes: (a) The construction...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20642
  When work is not to be done by the district itself by force account, and the amount involved is thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000), or more,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20642.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20643
  Notwithstanding Section 20642, contracts, in writing or otherwise, for the acquisition or disposal of any real or personal property may be let without calling for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20644
  The board may, from time to time, establish the manner of calling for bids and letting contracts, but except as such procedure so established by...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20645
  In the case of an emergency, if notice for bids to let contracts will not be given, the board shall comply with Chapter 2.5 (commencing...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20650
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by community college districts as provided for in Part 49 (commencing with Section 81000) of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20651
  (a) The governing board of any community college district shall let any contracts involving an expenditure of more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for any...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20651.5
  (a) The governing board of any community college district may require each prospective bidder for a contract, as described under Section 20651, to complete and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20652
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of Sections 81640 to 81654, inclusive, of the Education Code, or of Sections 20651 to 20659, inclusive, of this code, the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20653
  Nothing in this code shall preclude the governing board of any community college district from purchasing materials, equipment or supplies through the Department of General...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20654
  (a) In an emergency when any repairs, alterations, work, or improvement is necessary to any facility of the college, or to permit the continuance of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20655
  (a) In each community college district, the governing board may make repairs, alterations, additions, or painting, repainting, or decorating upon school buildings, repair or build...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20656
  For purposes of Section 20655, "maintenance" means routine, recurring, and usual work for the preservation, protection and keeping of any publicly owned or publicly operated...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20657
  It shall be unlawful to split or separate into smaller work orders or projects any work, project, service, or purchase for the purpose of evading...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20658
  The governing board of any community college district may by majority vote authorize its district superintendent, or such person as he or she may designate,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20659
  If any change or alteration of a contract governed by the provisions of this article is ordered by the governing board of the community college...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20660
  Perishable food stuffs and seasonal commodities needed in the operation of cafeterias and food services may be purchased by a community college district in accordance...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20661
  (a) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges is authorized to enter into a contract on behalf of one or more community college districts, subject...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20662
  The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges is authorized to enter into a contract or other agreement with the governing board of any community college...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20670
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by public entities as provided for in Division 5 (commencing with Section 4000) of the Government
• California Public Contract Code Section 20671
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Public leaseback" means any lease by a public entity, as lessee, of buildings, structures, or other facilities which are...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20672
  Any public project by a public leaseback corporation in excess of three thousand dollars ($3,000) shall be constructed under contract awarded to the lowest responsible...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20673
  For the purpose of securing bids, the public leaseback corporation shall give notice of the time and place for opening bids to prospective bidders by...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20674
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20675
  If the public leaseback corporation deems the acceptance of the lowest responsible bid is not in the best interests of the public entity the public...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20676
  A contractor or a mining operator shall not sell any sand, gravel, or other minerals, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 10295.5, to a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20680
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by community services districts as provided for in the Community Services District Law pursuant to Division...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20682
  (a) A district may purchase materials and supplies for the construction or completion of any building, structure, or improvements in the open market when the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20682.5
  (a) A district may construct or complete any building, structure, or improvement with its own forces or by contract without bidding when the cost does...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20683
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20688.1
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts awarded by entities as provided in Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20688.2
  Any work of grading, clearing, demolition, or construction undertaken by the agency shall be done by contract after competitive bids if the cost of that...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20688.25
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20688.3
  (a) To the greatest extent feasible, opportunities for training and employment arising from any contract for work to be performed in connection with any redevelopment...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20688.4
  An agency shall require each successful bidder to file with it good and sufficient bonds, to be approved by it. The bonds shall be conditioned...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20690
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by county harbor commissions as provided for in Division 7 (commencing with Section 4000) of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20693
  The commission may do all the work of improvement, development, or protection under one contract, or it may segregate it into separate parts or divisions,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20694
  Each contract for doing any part of the work shall be let after advertisement for bids by publishing notice for at least 10 days in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20694.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20695
  Each contract shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, who shall give such security as the commission requires for the full and faithful performance...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20696
  All improvement, development or protection of any harbor done under this article shall be of a substantial and permanent character.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20710
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by harbor improvement districts as provided for in Part 2 (commencing with Section 5800) of Division...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20720
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by harbor districts as provided for in Part 3 (commencing with Section 6000) of Division 8...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20723
  All work authorized to be done under this article, exceeding in cost the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) shall be awarded upon competitive bidding,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20724
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20730
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by small craft harbor districts as provided for in the Small Craft Harbor District Law pursuant...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20736
  (a) All construction authorized under this article that exceeds two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) shall be awarded upon competitive bidding. Notice of the proposed...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20737
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20750
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by port districts as provided in Part 4 (commencing with Section 6200) of Division 8 of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20751
  Contracts for the doing of new construction work, the cost of which exceeds ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or the purchasing of supplies, the cost of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20751.1
  In case of an emergency, the board may, by resolution passed by a four-fifths vote of all of its members, declare and determine that public...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20752.2
  Notwithstanding Section 20751, all bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20753
  The board may delegate to its officers the execution of contracts in which the amount involved is less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000).
• California Public Contract Code Section 20760
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by river port districts as provided for in Part 6 (commencing with Section 6800) of Division...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20761
  Contracts for the doing of new construction work, the cost of which exceeds ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or the purchasing of supplies, the cost of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20761.5
  Notwithstanding Section 20761, all bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20762
  In case of an emergency such as a fire, flood, storm, or other disaster, the board may, by resolution passed by the vote of four-fifths...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20764
  The board may delegate to its officers the execution of contracts, in which the amount involved is less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000).
• California Public Contract Code Section 20780
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by sanitation districts as provided for in the County Sanitation District Act pursuant to Division 5...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20782
  A district may make and perform any agreement with any public or private corporation of any kind or any person for the joint construction, acquisition,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20783
  When work is done by the district itself by force account, the amount shall not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000). When the expenditure required for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20784
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20785
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Orange County Sanitation District may use the procedures described in Section 20133 for the construction of projects...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20790
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by sewer maintenance districts as provided for in the Sewer Maintenance District Act pursuant to Chapter...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20791
  "Maintenance of sewers" as used in this chapter includes the extension and enlargement of sewers, within a district.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20793
  The district may contract with the federal government of the United States or any branch thereof, or with any county, city and county, municipal corporation,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20800
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by sanitary districts as provided in the Sanitary District Act of 1923 pursuant to Division 6...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20801
  "District project," as used in this article, means any construction, reconstruction, alteration, enlargement, renewal, or replacement of sewer facilities which the district is authorized to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20803
  When the expenditure required for a district project exceeds fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), it shall be contracted for and let to the lowest responsible bidder...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20804
  The notice inviting bids shall set a date for the opening of bids. The first publication or posting of the notice shall be at least...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20804.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20805
  In its discretion, the district board may reject any bids presented and readvertise. If two or more bids are the same and the lowest, the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20806
  If there is an emergency, or if it is necessary to do emergency work to prepare for national or local defense, the district board may...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20810
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by fire protection districts as provided for in the Fire Protection District Law pursuant to Division...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20811
  When a district board determines that it is in the public interest, a district may contract with any other public agency for fire protection services,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20812
  (a) A district board may contract for special services. These contracts shall be with persons specially trained, experienced, expert, and competent to perform the special...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20813
  (a) All contracts for the construction or completion of any building, structure, or improvement, when the expenditure required for the work exceeds ten thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20815
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by recreation and park districts as provided in the Recreation and Park District Law, Chapter 4...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20815.1
  (a) All contracts for new construction estimated to cost in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder after...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20815.3
  (a) A district shall publish notice inviting bids for any contract for which competitive bidding is required at least one time in a newspaper of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20815.5
  Notwithstanding Sections 20815.1 and 20815.3, a district may use the provisions of the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act, Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 22000).
• California Public Contract Code Section 20820
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by public entities as provided for in the Community Facilities Law of 1911 pursuant to Chapter...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20823
  Any contract for the construction of any improvement may be let and entered into as other contracts for similar work are let and entered into...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20824
  Instead of letting contracts for the improvement, the city may itself construct or complete the improvement, and buy the necessary materials, and employ the necessary
• California Public Contract Code Section 20826
  The city may contract with the federal government of the United States or any branch of it, or with any county, city and county, municipal...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20830
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by highway lighting districts as provided for in the Highway Lighting District Act pursuant to Part...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20832
  Within 10 days after the establishment of the district, the governing body shall advertise for bids for installing and maintaining the system and for servicing...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20832.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20840
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by maintenance districts as provided for in the Improvement Act of 1911 pursuant to Division 7...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20842
  All contracts shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder. The board shall advertise for two or more days in a newspaper of general circulation...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20843
  A contract for installing, maintaining and servicing a system of lights in any maintenance district shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. However, the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20843.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20850
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by public entities as provided for in the Improvement Act of 1911 pursuant to Division 7...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20852
  The superintendent of streets shall advertise for bids for the improvement of the roadbed pursuant to Section 6764 of the Streets and Highways Code. The...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20853
  Immediately upon the award of the contract, the superintendent of streets shall enter into a contract with the person to whom the contract was awarded...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20854
  Upon the completion of the work and its acceptance, the street superintendent shall make a certificate of completion, together with a statement of the amount...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20855
  If the contract price is not paid within 30 days from the date of the recording of the certificate, the contractor may file a sworn...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20856
  In the action, the certificate of completion shall be and constitute prima facie evidence of the regularity of all proceedings and of the right of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20857
  If the person files a written election to enter upon the direct performance of the work at its own cost and expense, no further proceedings...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20858
  If the person shall, after three days' notice of the adoption of the resolution, fail to comply with the terms and conditions so prescribed, the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20859
  Upon the completion of the improvement, the contractor to whom the contract has been awarded, or his or her assigns, shall be entitled to a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20867
  The legislative body shall award the contract for doing the work to the lowest responsible bidder. All bids for construction work shall be presented under...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20868
  Upon the completion of the work and its acceptance, the street superintendent shall make a certificate of completion, together with a statement of the amount...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20869
  When the certificate of completion has been recorded the contractor shall be entitled to payment for the full amount of the contract price, and the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20870
  If the contract price is not paid within 30 days from the date of the recording of the certificate of completion, the contractor may file...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20871
  In the action, the certificate of completion shall be prima facie evidence of the regularity of all proceedings, and of the right of the contractor...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20872
  If the person files a written election to enter upon the direct performance of such work at its own cost and expense, no further proceedings...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20873
  If the work is not done with diligence as in this article provided, the legislative body may, by resolution entered upon its minutes, prescribe such...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20874
  Upon the completion of the improvement, the contractor to whom the contract has been awarded, or his or her assigns, shall be entitled to a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20880
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by public entities as provided for in the Improvement Act of 1911 pursuant to Division 7...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20886
  Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to relieve any city or public agency, if the work or improvement is to be performed by the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20890
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by public entities as provided for in the Tree Planting Act of 1931 pursuant to Part...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20893
  The board may direct the city forester to let contracts for all or any part of any improvement ordered by the city council. The city...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20893.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20894
  If the contractor abandons the work, or fails to proceed with it as rapidly as required by the contract, the city forester may relet the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20895
  The legislative body, by contract or otherwise, shall provide for the performance of all work ordered by it pursuant to this article, including the construction...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20896
  All or any part of the improvements may be constructed, installed, or owned and all or any part of the maintenance and servicing of any...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20897
  The local agency, by contract made with another public agency or with a public utility, may provide for the construction, installation, or ownership of any...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20898
  Except for any work provided for by contract made pursuant to Section 20897, the legislative body shall provide for the construction or installation of all...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20910
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by bridge and highway districts as provided for in the Bridge and Highway District Act pursuant...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20914
  (a) The district shall advertise, pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code, for contracts for all vessel repair, maintenance, and alteration work whenever the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20915
  It shall be unlawful to employ any means to evade the provisions of this article requiring contracts to be awarded after advertising and competitive bidding,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20916
  All contracts in excess of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) entered into by the district for the hiring or purchase of equipment, supplies, or materials, are...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20916.3
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the award of purchase contracts by the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District under competitive bid procedures...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20916.5
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security: (a)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20917
  If, after rejecting bids received under Section 20916, the board determines and declares by a two-thirds vote of all of its members that, in its...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20918
  In case of an emergency, the board may, by resolution passed by a two-thirds vote of all of its members, declare and determine that public...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this article, to demonstrate an alternative...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.1
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Adjustment factor" means the job order contractor's competitively bid adjustment to the unified school district's prices as published in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.2
  Nothing in this article or in this code shall prohibit the unified school district from utilizing job order contracting, as an alternative to any contracting...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.3
  (a) The unified school district shall establish and enforce for job order contracts a labor compliance program containing the requirements outlined in Section 1771.5 of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.4
  Bidding for job order contracts shall progress as follows: (a) (1) The unified school district shall prepare a set of documents for each job order...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.5
  (a) The maximum total dollar amount that may be awarded under a single job order contract shall not exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000) in the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.6
  (a) All work bid under the job order contract shall comply with Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4100) of Part 1 of Division 2 and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.7
  (a) A job order contract shall set forth in the general conditions of the job order contract the party or parties responsible for seeing that...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.8
  A willful violation of Section 20919.6 occurs when the job order contractor or subcontractor knew or reasonably should have known of his or her obligations...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.9
  For purposes of employment of apprentices on job order contracts, when the individual job order involves more than thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) or 20 working...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.10
  A job order contractor or subcontractor that knowingly violates the provisions involving employment of apprentices shall forfeit as a civil penalty an amount not exceeding...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.11
  In order to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse, the unified school district adopting job order contracting shall do all of the following: (a) Prepare for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.12
  If the unified school district adopts the job order contracting process, the unified school district shall submit to the Office of Public School Construction in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.13
  If, after 30 days from receipt of the invoice, a contract has not been paid, the contractor shall contact the designated unified school district employee...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.14
  It is the intent of the Legislature that a moratorium be placed on the enactment of any additional legislation authorizing school districts to use job...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20919.15
  This article shall remain in effect only until December 1, 2012, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20920
  This article applies to contracts by reclamation districts formed under special acts of the Legislature or under Division 15 (commencing with Section 50000) of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20921
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, or for materials or supplies, in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) shall be let to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20922
  It is unlawful to split or separate into smaller work orders or projects for the purpose of evading the provisions of this article requiring work...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20923
  The board shall advertise for bids by at least two insertions, not less than five days apart, in a newspaper of general circulation circulated within...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20924
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever a district participates in any federal or state assistance program, the district shall comply with the procurement requirements...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20925
  The board shall have the right to reject any and all bids not suitable to the best interests of the district. In its discretion, the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20926
  (a) In the event of any emergency, the board may negotiate and award a contract for construction of work to prevent damage or repair damaged...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20927
  The limitations set forth in Section 20921 may be exceeded to a maximum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for projects and purchases of materials for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20929
  All bids for construction work requested by an agency or district covered by this chapter shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20930
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by Levee District No. 1 of Sutter County, as provided for in Chapter 349 of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20931
  (a) The board shall annually have prepared, and shall adopt, plans and specifications of all necessary repairs to the levees of the district and of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20940
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by protection districts as provided for in Chapter 201 of the Statutes of 1895.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20941
  (a) All work done in any district shall be ordered by the board of supervisors of the county in which the district is located and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20942
  The board of supervisors shall determine the amount of work to be done in each year and the place where such work is to be...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20950
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by drainage districts, as provided for in Chapter 238 of the Statutes of 1903.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20951
  After adopting a plan for such conduits, drains, pumping plants, watergates, and other works which are provided for in this act, the board of directors...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20952
  The district may enter into contracts or agreements with the State of California or other public districts for the joint construction of and for the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20960
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by levee districts as provided for in Chapter 310 of the Statutes of 1905.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20961
  No levees, dikes, or other works for the benefit of the district may be constructed or repaired except on the order of the board of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20970
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by protection districts as provided for in Chapter 25 of the Statutes of 1907.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20971
  After the adoption of a plan of works and providing funds for the construction of the same, and securing the necessary rights of way as...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20980
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by storm water districts as provided for in Chapter 222 of the Statutes of 1909.
• California Public Contract Code Section 20981
  All work of construction, repair, or maintenance, the cost whereof exceeds one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500), shall be done by contract; and all contracts...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20990
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Los Angeles County Flood Control District as provided for in Chapter 755 of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20991
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20992
  It shall be the duty of the purchasing agent of Los Angeles County, and the ex officio purchasing agent of Los Angeles County Flood Control...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20993
  Any improvement for which bonds are voted under the provisions of this act shall be made in conformity with the report, plans, specifications, and map...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20994
  Any work or improvement provided for in this act may be located, constructed, and maintained in, along, or across any public road or highway in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20995
  The plans and specifications for any work proposed to be done, or improvements to be made, under this act, in any municipality in the district...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20996
  The governing body of the district may, upon receiving request therefor, cause to be designed and inserted in the specifications and contract for any flood...
• California Public Contract Code Section 20997
  The governing body of the district shall have full authority to cause to be inserted in specifications and contracts for any flood control work financed...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21000
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by drainage districts as provided for in Chapter 354 of the Statutes of 1919.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21001
  By resolution or resolutions the board of supervisors may order the work to be done, and if it does so it shall fix a time...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21002
  The notice inviting sealed proposals or bids shall be published by at least two insertions in the newspaper or newspapers designated in the resolution of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21003
  The board shall, in open session, open and examine and declare the same. No proposal or bid shall be considered unless accompanied by such check...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21004
  Any person interested in the said proceeding may at any time within 10 days from the first publication of the notice of award file with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21005
  If for 20 days after the first publication of the notice of award, the awardee fails, neglects, or refuses to execute a contract for the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21006
  The chairman of the board of supervisors is hereby authorized, in the name of the county to execute the contract with the awardee thereof, and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21007
  Before the execution of such contract, a bond shall be executed and filed, running to the county, in an amount not less than one-half of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21008
  By said contract the county shall undertake that the board of supervisors will, upon the fulfillment and performance of the contract on the part of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21009
  If the contractor shall fail to begin in good faith the work provided for in said contract within the time in said contract set forth,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21010
  If the contractor fails to pay for any labor or material furnished for or in the doing of said work by any person, such person...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21011
  (a) As soon as in good faith may be done, there shall be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors a declaration that...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21012
  Whenever upon the hearing in Section 21011 provided, whether original or continued, the board shall be of the opinion that the work has been completed...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21013
  (a) Whenever any court of competent jurisdiction shall determine that any contract purporting to have been made, or any proceedings, steps or actions purporting to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21020
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Orange County Flood Control District, as provided for in Chapter 723 of the Statutes...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21020.2
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21020.5
  Any improvement for which bonds are voted under the provisions of the act shall be made in conformity with the report, plans, specifications, and map...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21020.8
  Any work or improvements provided for in the act may be located, constructed, and maintained in, along, or across any public road or highway in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21020.9
  The plans and specifications for any work proposed to be done, or improvements to be made, under the act, in any municipality in the district...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21021
  Every contract entered into by the district for construction or improvements shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 303 of the Statutes of 1919,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21022
  The contract shall be entered into by the engineer, and the assessment and warrant, when confirmed, shall be recorded in the office of the engineer.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21023
  The governing body of said district shall have full authority to cause to be inserted in specifications and contracts for any flood control work financed...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21024
  Emergency work, found by the board of supervisors to be necessary, may be done by negotiated contract without advertising for bids. If notice for bids...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21030
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the American River Flood Control District, as provided for in Chapter 808 of the Statutes...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21031
  (a) In all work of improvement or repair of any of the works or property of the district and in the furnishing of materials or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21040
  This article shall apply to contracts by the Orange County Water District, as provided for in Chapter 924 of the Statutes of 1933.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21041
  The district shall not be bound by any contract except as hereinafter provided unless the same shall be made in writing approved by resolution of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21042
  The district may prescribe methods for the construction of works and for the letting of contracts for any of the following purposes: (a) The construction...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21043
  (a) Contracts may be let or work undertaken without advertising for bids in an emergency. (b) In case of an emergency, if notice for bids...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21044
  Contracts, in writing or otherwise, for the acquisition or disposal of any real property, for the acquisition or leasing of personal property, the purchase of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21045
  (a) The district shall require a person to whom the district awards a contract as a result of advertising for bids to enter into a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21050
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by municipal water districts, as provided for in Chapter 78 of the Statutes of 1935.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21051
  All contracts for the construction or extension of any waterworks, water system or water distribution system, or for furnishing labor, materials or supplies therefor as...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21060
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the San Bernardino County Flood Control District, as provided for in Chapter 73 of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21061
  (a) All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21070
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Ventura County Watershed Protection District, as provided for in Chapter 44 of the Statutes...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21071
  (a) All contracts for any improvement or unit of work except as provided in this article estimated to cost in excess of ten thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21072
  (a) Emergency work may be done by negotiated contract without advertising for bids or requiring bonds. (b) In case of an emergency, if notice for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21080
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Humboldt County Flood Control District, as provided for in Chapter 939 of the Statutes...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21081
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, when the cost, according to the estimate of the engineer, will exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21090
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter 1122...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21091
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, except as otherwise provided in this act, estimated to cost in excess of fifteen thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21100
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the San Luis Obispo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21101
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, when the cost, according to the estimate of the engineer, will exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21102
  The board shall have full authority to cause to be inserted in specifications and contracts for any flood control or other work financed or paid...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21110
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Santa Barbara County Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 1501 of the Statutes...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21111
  (a) All contracts for the construction of any unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of ten thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21112
  The provisions of this article shall have no application to a contract entered into with the United States under the authority of Section 6 of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21120
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Monterey County Water Resources Agency, as provided for in the Monterey County Water Resources...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21121
  (a) All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, if the cost according to the estimate of the engineer, exceeds five thousand dollars ($5,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21130
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Sonoma County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter 994...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21131
  (a) All contracts for the construction of any unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of two thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21140
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Mendocino County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter 995...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21141
  (a) All contracts for the construction of any unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of two thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21150
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter 1275...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21151
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21152
  If any change or addition in the work being performed under a construction contract pursuant to this section is deemed necessary, the board may authorize...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21160
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Santa Clara Valley Water District, as provided for in Chapter 1405 of the Statutes...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21161
  (a) Any improvement or unit of work not performed by district personnel and estimated by the engineer to cost in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21162
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the approval of the board of directors, and without the approval of the board of supervisors, the district...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21170
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter 1449...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21171
  (a) All contracts for any improvement or unit of work when the cost, according to the estimate of the engineer, will exceed two thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21180
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Lake County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter 1544...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21181
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer, will exceed four thousand dollars ($4,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21182
  In case of an emergency, the board of supervisors shall respond to the emergency pursuant to Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 22050) if notice for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21190
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Contra Costa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21191
  (a) All contracts for any improvement or unit of work when the cost, according to the estimate of the engineer, will exceed ten thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21195
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Solano County Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 573 of the Statutes of
• California Public Contract Code Section 21196
  (a) All contracts for the construction of any unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of two thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21200
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Yolo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter 1657...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21201
  All contracts for the construction of any unit of work, except as provided, estimated to cost in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) shall be...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21202
  The board shall advertise by three insertions in a daily newspaper of general circulation or two insertions in a weekly newspaper of general circulation published...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21203
  If all proposals are rejected or no proposals are received pursuant to advertisement, or where the estimated cost of the work does not exceed five...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21204
  The provisions of this section have no application to a contract entered into with the United States under the authority of Section 3 of this...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21210
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Sacramento County Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 10 of the Statutes of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21211
  The agency shall have the power to make contracts, employ labor and to do all acts necessary for the full exercise of its purposes and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21212
  (a) All contracts for the construction of any unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of three thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21220
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Vallejo Sanitation and Flood Control District, as provided for in Chapter 17 of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21221
  (a) In all work of improvement or repair of any of the works or property of the district and in the furnishing of materials or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21230
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Marin County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter 666...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21231
  Any improvement or unit of work when the cost, according to the estimate of the engineer, will exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000), shall be done...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21240
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Contra Costa County Storm Drainage District, as provided for in Chapter 1532 of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21241
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work when the cost, according to the estimate of the engineer, will exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21250
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the San Benito County Water Conservation and Flood Control District, as provided for in Chapter...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21251
  (a) (1) All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, if the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed thirty thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21260
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Del Norte County Flood Control District, as provided for in Chapter 166 of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21261
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work when the cost, according to the estimate of the engineer, will exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21270
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Santa Barbara County Flood Control and Water Conservation Districts, as provided for in Chapter...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21271
  All improvement and units of work to be performed by or for the district shall be performed in accordance with the following procedures and requirements:...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21280
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Santa Cruz County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21281
  All contracts for the construction of any unit of work, except as provided in Sections 21292 and 21298, estimated to cost in excess of five...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21282
  Materials and supplies for use in any new construction work or improvement, may not be purchased if the cost thereof exceeds five thousand dollars ($5,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21283
  The board shall adopt plans, specifications, strain sheets, and working details for the work.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21284
  The board shall cause an advertisement for bids for the performance of the work on the purchase of materials to be published in the county...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21285
  All bidders shall be afforded opportunity to examine the plans, specifications, strain sheets and working details.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21286
  All proposals or bids offered shall be accompanied by a cashier's or certified check payable to the district, for an amount which shall not be...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21287
  The board shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder, and the person to whom the contract is awarded shall perform the work in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21288
  The person to whom the contract is awarded shall execute a bond to be approved by the board for the faithful performance of the contract.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21289
  If the board is advised by its engineer, or by the county surveyor or engineer, that any facility can be constructed or repaired for a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21290
  (a) By the unanimous consent of the whole board in cases of emergency, except for compliance with subdivision (b), the board may proceed at once...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21291
  The plans and specifications adopted by the board for the erection, alteration, construction, or repair of any public building or other public structure shall not...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21292
  Whenever the board enters into a contract for the erection, construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or other structure, the contract shall not...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21293
  If any change or alteration of the contract is ordered, it shall be specified in writing and the cost agreed upon between the board and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21294
  If the cost of the works is reduced by reason of any modification of the contract an adjustment shall be made with the district therefor.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21295
  Personal property may be purchased in the manner provided therefor for the county.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21296
  The provisions of this article do not apply to work to be performed by others pursuant to Section 21297.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21297
  (a) It may make and enter into contracts with the United States, the State of California, any political subdivision, county, municipality, district, agency, or mandatory...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21310
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the San Joaquin County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21311
  (a) All contracts for any improvement or unit of work when the cost, according to the estimate of the engineer, will exceed two thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21320
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Placer County Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 1234 of the Statutes of
• California Public Contract Code Section 21321
  (a) All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed thirty thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21322
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 21321, contracts may be let for work without advertising in cases of significant emergency as determined by the board. Cases...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21330
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Tehama County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter 1280...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21331
  (a) All contracts for the construction of any unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of three thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21340
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Shasta County Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 1512 of the Statutes of
• California Public Contract Code Section 21341
  (a) All contracts for the construction of any unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of five thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21350
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Yuba County Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 788 of the Statutes of
• California Public Contract Code Section 21351
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21360
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Mariposa County Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 2036 of the Statutes of
• California Public Contract Code Section 21361
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21370
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Sutter County Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 2088 of the Statutes of
• California Public Contract Code Section 21371
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21380
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the San Mateo County Flood Control District, as provided for in Chapter 2108 of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21381
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21390
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Plumas County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter 2114...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21391
  (a) All contracts for the construction of any unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of two thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21400
  The provisons of this article shall apply to contracts by the Siskiyou County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter 2121...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21401
  (a) All contracts for the construction of any unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of two thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21410
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Nevada County Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 2122 of the Statutes of
• California Public Contract Code Section 21411
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21420
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Sierra County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter 2123...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21421
  (a) All contracts for the construction of any unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of two thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21430
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Lassen-Modoc County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter 2127...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21431
  (a) All contracts for the construction of any unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of two thousand...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21440
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Yuba-Bear River Basin Authority, as provided for in Chapter 2131 of the Statutes of
• California Public Contract Code Section 21441
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21450
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Amador County Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 2137 of the Statutes of
• California Public Contract Code Section 21451
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed twelve thousand five hundred...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21460
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the El Dorado County Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 2139 of the Statutes...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21461
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21470
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Mojave Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 2146 of the Statutes of 1959.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21471
  Subject to the limitations in Section 14 of Chapter 166 of the Statutes of 1967, the agency may join with one or more public agencies,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21472
  In case of an emergency, if notice for bids to let contracts will not be given, the agency shall respond to the emergency pursuant to...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21480
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 2146 of the Statutes...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21481
  The Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency shall have the power to join with one or more public agencies, private corporations, or other persons for the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21482
  In case of an emergency, if notice for bids to let contracts will not be given, the agency shall comply with Chapter 2.5 (commencing with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21490
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Kern County Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 1003 of the Statutes of
• California Public Contract Code Section 21491
  (a) All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed ten thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21492
  In case of an emergency, if notice for bids to let contracts will not be given, the board shall comply with Chapter 2.5 (commencing with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21500
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Desert Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 1069 of the Statutes of 1961.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21501
  (a) All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed fifteen thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21510
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 1435 of the Statutes...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21511
  (a) All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed fifty thousand dollars...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21520
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Alpine County Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 1896 of the Statutes of
• California Public Contract Code Section 21521
  All contracts for any improvement or unit of work, when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21530
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Castaic Lake Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 28 of the Statutes of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21531
  (a) The Castaic Lake Water Agency shall have power to prescribe methods for the construction of works and for the letting of contracts for the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21540
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Crestline-Lake Arrowhead Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 40 of the Statutes of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21541
  (a) The Crestline-Lake Arrowhead Water Agency shall have power to prescribe methods for the construction of works and for the letting of contracts for the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21550
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the San Diego County Flood Control District, as provided for in Chapter 55 of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21551
  (a) All contracts for the construction of any unit of work estimated to cost over ten thousand dollars ($10,000) shall be let to the lowest...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21552
  In case of an emergency, if notice for bids to let contracts will not be given, the district shall comply with Chapter 2.5 (commencing with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21560
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by a Metropolitan Water District, as provided for in Chapter 209 of the Statutes of 1969.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21561
  As used in this article, "public corporation" means and includes the United States or any other public agency thereof or this or any other state...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21562
  A district may join with one or more other public or private corporations (within or without this state) for the purpose of carrying out any...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21563
  Any contract with any other public or private corporation pursuant to Section 21562 may provide for contributions to be made by each party and for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21564
  The board may prescribe methods for the construction of works and for the letting of contracts for the construction of works, structures, or equipment, or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21565
  Whenever any work is not to be done by the district itself by force account, and the amount involved shall be twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21566
  The board, in advertising for bids and in letting contracts as provided in Section 21565, may require that all articles furnished to the district pursuant...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21567
  (a) Notwithstanding the requirements of Section 21566, contracts, in writing or otherwise, may be let without advertising for, or inviting bids, when any repairs, alterations,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21570
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Madera County Flood Control and Water Conservation Agency, as provided for in Chapter 916...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21571
  The agency shall have the power to make contracts, employ labor, and do all acts necessary for the full exercise of its purpose and powers....
• California Public Contract Code Section 21572
  Any improvement or unit of work, except as provided in this article, estimated to cost in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000), shall be done...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21580
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Tulare County Flood Control District, as provided for in Chapter 1149 of the Statutes...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21581
  (a) Any improvement or unit of work when the cost according to the estimate of the engineer will exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000), shall be...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21590
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Bighorn Mountains Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 1175 of the Statutes of
• California Public Contract Code Section 21591
  (a) Any improvement or unit of work, when the cost, according to the estimate of the engineer, will exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), shall be...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21600
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Tuolumne County Water Agency, as provided for in Chapter 1236 of the Statutes of
• California Public Contract Code Section 21601
  Any improvement or unit of work, when the cost, according to the estimate of the engineer, will exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000), shall be done...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21610
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Tahoe-Truckee Sanitation Agency, as provided for in Chapter 1560 of the Statutes of 1971.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21611
  As used in this article: (a) "Public entity" means and includes the United States, the state and any county, city, public corporation, or public district...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21612
  The agency may join with one or more public entities, private corporations, or other persons for the purpose of carrying out any of the powers...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21613
  Any contract with any other public entity, private corporation, or person may provide for contributions to be made by each party thereto, for the division...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21614
  The agency may prescribe methods for construction of works and for the letting of contracts for any of the following purposes: (a) The construction of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21615
  When any agency expenditure exceeds five thousand dollars ($5,000), it shall be contracted for and let to the lowest responsible bidder after notice.
• California Public Contract Code Section 21616
  The board may establish the manner of calling for bids and letting contracts, and all contracts shall be entered into upon such terms and in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21617
  If no bids are received upon any call for bids, the board may let the contract without further complying with Section 159 of Chapter 1560...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21618
  In case of an emergency, if notice for bids to let contracts will not be given, the board shall comply with Chapter 2.5 (commencing with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21620
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, as provided for in Chapter 527 of the Statutes...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21621
  Any improvement or unit of work, when the cost, according to the estimate of the engineer, will exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), shall be done...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21622
  The board shall require the successful bidder or bidders to file with the board, good and sufficient bonds, to be approved by the board conditioned...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21623
  The board shall also have the right to reject any and all bids and readvertise for new bids, or by a two-thirds vote may elect...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21624
  In case of an emergency, if notice for bids to let contracts will not be given, the board shall comply with Chapter 2.5 (commencing with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21630
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Merced County Flood Control District, as provided for in Chapter 1311 of the Statutes...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21631
  (a) Any improvement or unit of work when the cost, according to the estimate of the engineer, will exceed six thousand five hundred dollars ($6,500),...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21640
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by the Colusa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, as provided for in Chapter 926...
• California Public Contract Code Section 21641
  (a) All contracts for the construction of any unit of work, except as provided, estimated to cost in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) shall...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22000
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act."
• California Public Contract Code Section 22001
  The Legislature finds and declares that there is a statewide need to promote uniformity of the cost accounting standards and bidding procedures on construction work...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22001.5
  On or before January 1, 2009, the Controller shall send a notice to all public agencies describing the provisions of this chapter and the benefits...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22002
  (a) "Public agency," for purposes of this chapter, means a city, county, city and county, including chartered cities and chartered counties, any special district, and...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22003
  A public agency which has, by resolution, elected to become subject to the uniform construction cost accounting procedures set forth in Article 2 (commencing with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22010
  There is hereby created the California Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission. The commission is comprised of 14 members. (a) Thirteen of the members shall be...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22011
  The Controller, in an effort to select highly qualified commission members, shall solicit from organized representatives of the construction industry and public agencies recommendations for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22012
  At least one commission member of the seven representing the construction industry and at least one of the seven representing public agencies shall have previous...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22013
  The commission members shall select a chairperson from among its membership. The chairperson shall serve as chair for a term of one year from the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22014
  (a) The members of the commission shall hold office for terms of three years, and until their successors are appointed, except as otherwise provided for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22015
  (a) The Controller shall make available for the conduct of the commission's business, such staff and other support as does not conflict with the accomplishment...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22016
  The commission shall meet not less than once each year, at a time and place chosen by its membership.
• California Public Contract Code Section 22017
  The commission shall do all of the following: (a) After due deliberation and study, recommend for adoption by the Controller, uniform construction cost accounting procedures...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22018
  The Controller shall, upon receipt of the commission's recommendations, review and evaluate the recommended procedures and either formally adopt or reject the recommended procedures within...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22019
  Upon determining that the recommended uniform construction cost accounting procedures will serve the best interests of the state and public agencies, and upon formal adoption...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22020
  In accordance with procedures and standards adopted pursuant to Section 22017, every five years the commission shall consider whether there have been material changes in...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22030
  This article applies only to a public agency whose governing board has by resolution elected to become subject to the uniform construction cost accounting procedures...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22031
  Nothing in this article shall prohibit a board of supervisors or a county road commissioner from utilizing, as an alternative to the procedures set forth...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22032
  (a) Public projects of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) or less may be performed by the employees of a public agency by force account, by negotiated...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22033
  It shall be unlawful to split or separate into smaller work orders or projects any project for the purpose of evading the provisions of this...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22034
  Each public agency that elects to become subject to the uniform construction accounting procedures set forth in Article 2 (commencing with Section 22010) shall enact...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22035
  (a) In cases of emergency when repair or replacements are necessary, the governing body may proceed at once to replace or repair any public facility...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22035.5
  In counties that are under court order to relieve justice facility overcrowding, the procedures and restrictions specified in Section 20134 shall apply to all contracts...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22036
  The commission shall determine, on a county-by-county basis, the appropriate construction trade journals which shall receive mailed notice of all informal and formal construction contracts...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22037
  Notice inviting formal bids shall state the time and place for the receiving and opening of sealed bids and distinctly describe the project. The notice...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22038
  (a) In its discretion, the public agency may reject any bids presented, if the agency, prior to rejecting all bids and declaring that the project...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22039
  The governing body of the public agency shall adopt plans, specifications, and working details for all public projects exceeding the amount specified in subdivision (c)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22040
  Any person may examine the plans, specifications, or working details, or all of these, adopted by the public agency for any project.
• California Public Contract Code Section 22041
  This article does not apply to the construction of any public building used for facilities of juvenile forestry camps or juvenile homes, ranches, or camps...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22042
  The commission shall review the accounting procedures of any participating public agency where an interested party presents evidence that the work undertaken by the public...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22043
  In those circumstances as set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 22042, a request for commission review shall be in writing, sent by certified or...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22044
  The commission shall prepare written findings. Should the commission find that the provisions of this chapter or of the uniform cost accounting procedures provided for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22044.5
  If the commission makes a finding, in accordance with Section 22043, on three separate occasions within a 10-year period, that the work undertaken by a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22045
  (a) No later than January 1, 1985, the commission shall recommend, for adoption by the Controller, written procedures implementing the accounting procedures review provided for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22050
  (a) (1) In the case of an emergency, a public agency, pursuant to a four-fifths vote of its governing body, may repair or replace a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22101
  The Legislature has found that electronic data-processing equipment, goods, and services are unique, and of such importance to state programs as to warrant a separate...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22102
  For purposes of this chapter, "district" means the Southern California Rapid Transit District.
• California Public Contract Code Section 22103
  (a) Acquisition of electronic data-processing goods and services by the district shall be conducted through competitive means, except when the district determines one of the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22104
  (a) Contract awards shall be based on the proposal which provides the most cost-effective solution to the district's requirements, as determined by the evaluation criteria...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22105
  Protest procedures shall be provided to allow proposers an opportunity to formally protest any acquisition conducted in accordance with this chapter. Authority to protest may...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22106
  Electronic data-processing goods which are determined to be surplus to the district's needs shall be disposed of in a manner best serving the interests of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22107
  The district may establish policies and procedures for all of the following: (a) Price negotiation with respect to all acquisitions conducted under this chapter. (b)...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22108
  The district may adopt additional rules and regulations consistent with the provisions of this chapter.
• California Public Contract Code Section 22109
  Any contract for electronic data-processing goods and services, to be manufactured or performed by the contractor especially for the district and not suitable for sale...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22150
  (a) If fitness and quality are equal, each local public entity shall purchase recycled products, as defined in Section 12200, instead of nonrecycled products whenever...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22151
  In bids in which the local government has reserved the right to make multiple awards, the recycled product preference cost shall be applied, to the...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22152
  (a) All local public entities shall require all business, as defined in Section 12200, to certify in writing the minimum, if not exact, percentage of...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22153
  All printing contracts made by any local public entity shall provide that the paper used shall meet the recycled content requirements of Section 12209.
• California Public Contract Code Section 22154
  (a) All businesses shall certify in writing to the contracting officer, or his or her representative, the minimum, if not exact, percentage of postconsumer material...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22200
  As used in this part: (a) "Public works contract" means, except for a contract awarded pursuant to the State Contract Act (Part 2 (commencing with...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22201
  Unless otherwise prohibited by law, the terms of any public works contract may include at the time of bidding and of award a provision for...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22300
  (a) Provisions shall be included in any invitation for bid and in any contract documents to permit the substitution of securities for any moneys withheld...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22350
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the Year 2000 Problem Vendor Compliance and Information Practices Policy.
• California Public Contract Code Section 22351
  For purposes of this part, the following definitions apply: (a) "Contractor" means any individual, corporation, partnership, business entity, joint venture or association, or any other...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22352
  It is the policy of this state to do business solely with those persons and contractors that, subsequent to entering into any contract with a...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22353
  (a) Any public entity may submit a written request for information regarding the Year 2000 Problem to any contractor who is under contract to provide,...
• California Public Contract Code Section 22355
  Nothing in this part shall be construed to require any person or contractor to disclose any information that qualifies for protection as a trade secret,...

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