A. 
Open purchase orders may be used as a means of procuring supplies, materials, equipment or services when the amount or nature of the specific items or services cannot be predicted before they are needed, or where it is necessary that the place from which the items are purchased is strategically located. More than one vendor may be issued an open purchase order for the same item or service.
B. 
Competitive bidding is not required in order to establish an open purchase order for supplies, materials, equipment or services. The open market purchasing procedure set forth in Section 2.68.320 shall apply to open purchase orders of supplies, materials, equipment or services.
C. 
Open purchase orders shall be executed by the purchasing agent, provided the necessary funds therefor have been budgeted and appropriated or, if such funds have not been budgeted and appropriated, the amount of such open purchase order does not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars. Open purchase orders for which funding has not been appropriated and which exceed twenty-five thousand dollars shall be approved by the city council.
D. 
Since open purchase orders are established in order to obtain the most advantageous purchasing arrangements for the city or its residents, the factors set forth in Sections 2.68.270 and 2.68.340 shall be used by the purchasing agent in determining the most advantageous price quotation.
(Ord. 1500 § 1(part), 1993)
A. 
A revolving store fund shall be maintained for the purpose of enabling the purchasing agent to procure, from time to time, when most advantageous to the city, materials, supplies and equipment which will be needed by the city, and for the purpose of accumulating a store of supplies, materials and equipment from which requisitions of the various city officers and departments may be filled. The purchasing agent may expend store fund moneys for such purpose subject to the provisions for execution of contracts or purchase orders contained in this chapter. Departments requisitioning any supplies, materials or equipment from the store fund shall be charged and shall pay the store fund for the same with moneys appropriated to them for the acquisition of such materials, supplies and equipment. The amount of such charges shall be determined by the purchasing agent and shall be sufficient to enable the purchasing agent to maintain the store fund on a revolving basis.
B. 
If any officer or department of the city should requisition any supplies, materials or equipment which are not available in the stores acquired through use of the store fund, or if the purchasing agent deems it best not to acquire the same with store fund moneys, the purchasing agent may purchase the same for the requisitioning officer or department and charge the cost to the appropriations made to the requisitioning officer or department for such supplies, materials or equipment.
(Ord. 1500 § 1(part), 1993)