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<br />Section 2. The adoption of this ordinance is exempt from CEQA and a <br />Notice of Exemption will be tiled if this ordinance is adopted. <br /> <br />Section 3. Section 2-807 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended <br />such that it reads as follows (new language in bold, deleted language in strikeout for <br />tracking purposes only): <br /> <br />Sec. 2-807. Non-bid purchases. <br /> <br />The following contracts may be exempted from competitive bidding <br />through an open market purchase by the purchasing manager, and confirmed by <br />the city council in the case of contracts for over twenty five thousand dollars <br />($25,000.00), but shall nevertheless be entered into only after compliance with <br />the rules established by the purchasing manager, which shall include the review <br />of such alternative sources of supply or performance as may be available in <br />competition with one another and selection therefrom on the basis of obtaining <br />maximum quality at minimum costs: <br /> <br />(a) Purchases of materials, supplies, labor, and equipment <br />whenever it shall appear that there is only one reasonably available source or <br />where solicitation of bids would for any reason be an idle act. <br /> <br />(b) Purchases of materials, supplies, labor, and equipment <br />necessary for the preservation of life, health or property, following the declaration <br />of a state of emergency or disaster in the city. A full written account of <br />emergency procurements made during the declared emergency or disaster shall <br />be submitted to the City Council within thirty (30) days after their procurement. <br /> <br />(c) Situations where no bids are received or all bids are rejected <br />and the city council determines, upon the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds ( <br />2/3) of its members, that the materials, supplies, labor or equipment can be <br />obtained at a lower cost. <br /> <br />(d) Purchases from vendors whose names are on current <br />established lists and have been awarded the same type of purchase contract by <br />a federal agency (including the General Services Administration), a state agency, <br />county, city or other public agency after a competitive bidding process <br />determined by the purchasing manager to be substantially equivalent to that <br />prescribed by this article. <br /> <br />(e) Contracts for services. <br /> <br />Section 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of <br />this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision <br /> <br />11 A-2 <br />