As used in this chapter:
"Contractor list"means a list of responsible prospective vendors capable of providing the items being bid upon.
"Emergency"means a sudden, unexpected occurrence that poses a clear and imminent danger, requiring immediate action to prevent or mitigate the loss or impairment of life, health, property, or essential public services.
"Equipment"means furnishings, machinery, vehicles, rolling stock, and other personal property used in the City's business.
"General services"means services such as janitorial, uniform cleaning, maintenance work and other services which do not require any unique skill, special background, or training. Obtaining such services at the lowest cost is the single most important factor in selection, as opposed to personal performance.
"Professional or special services"means any work performed by an attorney, doctor, architect, engineer, land surveyor, construction manager, computer or information technology specialist, appraiser, expert, accounting firm, planner, instructor, consultant or those services which require special performance criteria, specific experience, training, personal judgment, or where the quality of work is a material consideration to the benefits to be received by the City such that contracting on the basis of obtaining the lowest cost to the City may not produce the best value.
"Public works"means a type of public construction project as defined in the
California Public Contract Code or the
Labor Code, including:
1. The erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, painting, repainting, repair, alteration, carpet-laying, renovation, improvement or demolition of public buildings, structures, streets, walkways, water facilities, sewer facilities, drainage facilities, or other public facilities, whether owned, leased, or operated by the City, done under contract and paid for in whole or in part out of public funds. For purposes of this subsection, "construction" includes work performed during the design and preconstruction phases of construction including, but not limited to, inspection and land surveying work.
Furnishing supplies or materials for any of the works or projects described in subsection 1 of this definition.
"Purchase"means the renting, leasing, purchasing, licensing, or a trade of equipment or supplies.
"Special equipment/supplies"means unique supplies, machinery, computers, or other equipment which is not generally and regularly ordered in bulk by the City and which is used to perform complex tasks, or where specific equipment or supplies are needed by the City to integrate efficiently with existing equipment or supplies. "Special equipment/supplies" shall include proprietary items sold directly from the manufacturer where no equivalent substitutes are generally available on the market or items that have only one distributor authorized to sell in Marin County.
"Supplies"means office supplies, janitorial supplies, materials, goods, tools, or other commodities used in the general conduct of the City's business, excepting supplies for public works projects.
(Ord. 05-2024 § 1 (Exh. A), 2024)