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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) Every original contractor to who is awarded a contract by a state entity, as defined in subdivision (d), involving an expenditure in excess of...
• 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 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
  "Department," as used in this part, means (a) the Department of Water Resources as to any project under the jurisdiction of that department, (b) the...
• 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
  Where the nature of the work by departments within the Resources Agency in the opinion of the Department of General Services is such that its...
• 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 shall be performed by individuals who are represented by a...
• 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 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...