ARTICLE 3. Competitive Bidding and Other Acquisition Procedures [10300. - 10334.]

Heading of Article 3 amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 776, Sec. 9.

§§ 10300–10334 · 37 sections

§ 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…
§ 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 will properly meet the…
§ 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,…
§ 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…
§ 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,…
§ 10303 The department shall adopt, publish and apply uniform standards of rating bidders, on the basis of questionnaires and required statements, with respect to…
§ 10304 All bids shall be sealed and shall be publicly opened and read at the time set forth in the solicitation, provided any person in attendance desires the bids to…
§ 10304.1 Notwithstanding Sections 10301, 10302, and 10304, the Department of Water Resources may award contracts for the acquisition of specialized equipment for…
§ 10305 After being opened the bids shall be available for public inspection and tabulations shall be completed within seven days.
§ 10306 (a) Whenever a contract under this article is not to be awarded to the lowest bidder, the bidder shall be notified 24 hours prior to awarding the contract to…
§ 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…
§ 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 by or under…
§ 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 department, upon…
§ 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 duty it shall…
§ 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 full…
§ 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…
§ 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, to any…
§ 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 of the…
§ 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…
§ 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 storage depot not under…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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 state agency without…
§ 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…
§ 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 Code…
§ 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 of…
§ 10325 Each quarter, the department shall, upon request, provide each city, county, city and county, district, local government body, or public corporation empowered…
§ 10326 In establishing bid specifications for the acquisition of motor vehicles and in determining the lowest responsible bidder, consideration may be given by the…
§ 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 otherwise has…
§ 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 4 of…
§ 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…
§ 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.
§ 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 agencies…
§ 10331 The department shall establish a program for delegating authority to acquire goods to state agencies that meet the requirements of Section 10333. Each…
§ 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)…
§ 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…
§ 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 state’s business…