§ 2-664. Purchases of non-professional services.

(a)

Non-professional services contracts of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) to under five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00). In procuring non-professional services, excluding construction services, if the city receives one or more bids from a bidder that is a city business and whose bid is within three (3) percent of the lowest bid price received by the city from a bidder who is not a city business, the city shall enter into a contract that requires an expenditure of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) to under five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) with the bidder that is a city business.

(b)

Construction services contracts of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) to under one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00). In procuring non-professional construction services, if the city receives one or more bids from a bidder that is a city business and whose bid is within three (3) percent of the lowest bid price received by the city from a bidder who is not a city business, the city shall enter into a contract that requires an expenditure of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) to under one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) with the bidder that is a city business.

(c)

When a bidder is a joint venture, each joint venture partner must meet the definition of a city business to be eligible for the preferences described in this section.

(Ord. No. 2013-12-05-0865, § 2, 12-5-13; Ord. No. 2014-11-13-0923, § 2, 11-13-14)