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Section 2. The adoption of this ordinance is exempt from CEQA and a Notice of Exemption will be filed if this ordinance is adopted. Section 3. Section 2-807 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended such that it reads as follows (new language in bold, deleted language in strikeout for tracking purposes only): Sec. 2-807. Non-bid purchases. The following contracts may be exempted from competitive bidding through an open market purchase by the purchasing manager, and confirmed by the city council in the case of contracts for over twenty five thousand dollars ($25,000.00), but shall nevertheless be entered into only after compliance with the rules established by the purchasing manager, which shall include the review of such alternative sources of supply or performance as may be available in competition with one another and selection therefrom on the basis of obtaining maximum quality at minimum costs: (a) Purchases of materials, supplies, labor, and equipment whenever it shall appear that there is only one reasonably available source or where solicitation of bids would for any reason be an idle act. (b) Purchases of materials, supplies, labor, and equipment necessary for the preservation of life, health or property, following the declaration of a state of emergency or disaster in the city Tea~~two-t#~i,~-(~'-^vrt~l~cr~~v°~~ „f +-,o ,.;+., ..~„~~,~. A full written account of emergency procurements made during the declared emergency or disaster shall be submitted to the City Council within thirty (30) days after their procurement. (c) Situations where no bids are received or all bids are rejected and the city council determines, upon the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds 2/3) of its members, that the materials, supplies, labor or equipment can be obtained at a lower cost. (d) Purchases from vendors whose names are on current established lists and have been awarded the same type of purchase contract by a federal agency (including the General Services Administration), astate agency, county, city or other public agency after a competitive bidding process determined by the purchasing manager to be substantially equivalent to that prescribed by this article. (e) Contracts for services. 50A-3