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<br />Sec. 2-807. Non-bid purchases. <br /> <br />The following contracts may be exempted from competitive bidding through an <br />open market purchase by the purchasing manager, and confirmed by the city council in <br />the case of contracts for over teH twenty five thousand dollars <br />($10,000.00$25,000.00), but shall nevertheless be entered into only after compliance <br />with the rules established by the purchasing manager, which shall include the review of <br />such alternative sources of supply or performance as may be available in competition <br />with one another and selection therefrom on the basis of obtaining maximum quality at <br />minimum costs: <br /> <br />(a) Purchases of materials, supplies, labor, and equipment whenever it <br />shall appear that there is only one reasonably available source or where solicitation of <br />bids would for any reason be an idle act. <br /> <br />(b) Purchases of materials, supplies, labor, and equipment necessary for <br />the preservation of life, health or property, following the declaration of a state of <br />emergency in the city upon the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds ( 2/3) of the <br />members of the city council. <br /> <br />(c) Situations where no bids are received or all bids are rejected and the <br />city council determines, upon the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds ( 2/3) of its <br />members, that the materials, supplies, labor or equipment can be obtained at a lower <br />cost. <br /> <br />(d) Purchases from vendors whose names are on current established <br />lists and have been awarded the same type of purchase contract by a federal agency <br />(including the General Services Administration), a state agency, county, city or other <br />public agency after a competitive bidding process determined by the purchasing <br />manager to be substantially equivalent to that prescribed by this article. <br /> <br />(e) Contracts for professional services. <br /> <br />Section 12. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion <br />of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the <br />decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the <br />validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of <br />Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each <br />section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the <br />fact that anyone or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or <br />portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. <br /> <br />ADOPTED this <br /> <br />day of <br /> <br />,2007. <br /> <br />11A-9 <br /> <br />Ordinance No. NS-XXX <br />Page 9 of 10 <br />