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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. 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), a state 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. Section 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. Ordinance NS-2770 Page 2 of 3