California Public Contract Code ARTICLE 3 - Competitive Bidding and Other Acquisition Procedures

• 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 the...
• 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...
• Section 10302.
  (a) 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 10304.1.
  Notwithstanding Sections 10301, 10302, and 10304, the Department of Water Resources may award contracts for the acquisition of specialized equipment for facilities of the State...
• Section 10305.
  After being opened the bids shall be available for public inspection and tabulations shall be completed within seven days.(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1231, Sec....
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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, is...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 shall...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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, or...
• Section 10326.2.
  (a) As used in this section, “best value procurement” means a contract award determined by objective criteria related to price, features, functions, and life-cycle costs that...
• 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...
• 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 price of...
• 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.(Amended by...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 not exceeding...
• 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 agency officer as...
• 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 the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018