(a) 
Purchases of supplies, services, materials, equipment and contractual services, including public works, having an estimated market value under $35,000[1] may be made by the purchasing agent in the open market, as hereinafter described in this article, without observing the formal contract procedures prescribed in Articles III and IV of this chapter.
[1]
By operation of PGMC § 2.16.160(b) the purchase authority limit referenced in this subsection (a) was adjusted to $40,000 for the period beginning July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2025.
(b) 
The purchase authority limit set forth in subsection (a) of this section shall be adjusted on July 1st of each fifth fiscal year, starting on July 1, 2020, by council resolution. The adjustment shall cause an increase or decrease to the purchase limit based upon the cumulative change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) that occurred since the last adjustment, based upon the "CPI, All Urban Consumers, San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose area; base years 1982-1984 = 100," as published by the U.S. Department of Labor, or any comparable replacement or successor index. For ease of administration, the purchase authority limit set for each following five-year period shall be adjusted by rounding to the nearest $5,000.
(c) 
A written report of all purchases made under authority of this section shall be provided to council on a quarterly basis.
(d) 
All purchases made under the authority of this section shall be accumulative per subject as per PGMC § 2.16.420, Splitting projects.
(Ord. 1405 N.S. § 2, 1984; Ord. 14-005 § 2, 2014; Ord. 21-019 § 2, 2021; Ord. 22-017 § 4, 2022)
Written quotations shall be submitted to the purchasing officer who shall keep a record of all open market quotations and orders for a period of two years after receipt of such quotations.
(Ord. 1405 N.S. § 2, 1984)
The purchasing agent, in his or her sole discretion, may reject:
(a) 
Any quotation that fails to meet the quotation requirements in any respect; or
(b) 
All quotations for any reason whatsoever and may invite new quotations.
(Ord. 1405 N.S. § 2, 1984)
Purchase orders shall be awarded by the purchasing agent to the person submitting the lowest responsible quotation except if two or more quotations are received for the same total amount or unit price, quality and service being equal, and further, if in the sole discretion of the purchasing officer the public interest will not permit the delay of inviting new quotations, then the purchasing agent may accept the one he or she chooses or accept the lowest quotation made by negotiation with the persons submitting the tie quotations.
(Ord. 1405 N.S. § 2, 1984)