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Procurement Report
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SUBMITTED BY: Lamar Cotten, ED Contract Staff
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None. Report only.
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SUMMARY STATEMENT:
The City has an internal team of staff working on amendments to the procurement code. The recommendations of the Commission came to the staff team who has been working to provide information helpful to the Commission obtaining its goals and providing information about what is purchased locally versus what is spent out of town. A joint work session has been twice scheduled and cancelled due to lack of a quorum. For this meeting several staff will be out of town in Juneau. The hope is a joint work session can be scheduled prior to the next meeting and a set of joint recommendations can be developed to give to Council. Listed below are the draft EDC recommendations to strengthen the city procurement code.
Draft EDC Recommendations:
1. EDC continues to evaluate a series of issues linked to expansion and diversification of the local economy. This memo serves as a set of draft EDC recommendations to strengthen the city procurement code for the purpose of increasing city goods and services contracts awarded to qualifying local firms. This would entail.
2. Review and analyze qualifications for local bidder status. In particular, consider a system in which bidders would need to meet a set number of factors to qualify as a local bidder. Such a list could include but not limited to, voter registration location, land ownership, primary home, annual days present in the community, vehicle registration, pay stubs. From this list, a qualified local bidder would need to meet a set of number of such factors.
3. An overall strengthening of the city procurement code core philosophy and long-term objectives. This could include a broader look at expenditures allocated for goods and services beyond just the issue of cost and instead l...
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