School facilities: task-order procurement contracting.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary text specifies the exact conditions under which task-order procurement contracts can be used and does not provide additional details beyond what is stated.

School Facilities: Task-Order Procurement Contracting

This law allows smaller school districts and county offices of education to use task-order procurement contracts for repairs and renovations under $3 million, with certain conditions.

What This Bill Does

• Allows school districts with an average daily attendance of 2,500 or less and county superintendents of schools with an average daily attendance of 10,000 or less to award multiple task-order procurement contracts for repair and renovation projects up to $3 million.
• Requires these contracts to be paid using the district's or county’s general fund, local construction bonds, or federal/state funds.
• Specifies that contracts must go to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder.
• Requires districts and county offices of education using this method to report their use by January 1, 2030.
• Limits contract purposes to those allowed by funding sources.

Who It Names or Affects

• School districts with an average daily attendance of 2,500 or less
• County superintendents of schools with an average daily attendance of 10,000 or less

Terms To Know

Task-order procurement contracts

Contracts that allow a school district to buy services and materials for repairs and construction in one request.

Lowest responsible and responsive bidder

The company or organization that can do the job best at the lowest cost.

Limits and Unknowns

• This law only applies to school districts with an average daily attendance of 2,500 or less and county superintendents of schools with an average daily attendance of 10,000 or less.
• The contracts are limited to projects under $3 million for repairs and renovations.

Official Summary Text

AB 948, as amended, Flora.
School facilities: task-order procurement contracting.
Existing law establishes, until January 1, 2034, a pilot project authorizing the governing board of the Los Angeles Unified School District to award multiple annual task-order procurement contracts, as prescribed, for purposes that include services, repairs, and construction funded by the school district’s general fund, local school construction bonds, or federal or state funds.
This bill would, in addition,
until January 1, 2031,
authorize a school district
with an average daily attendance of 2,500 or less
or a county superintendent of
schools, with an average daily attendance of 10,000 or less,
schools
to award multiple task-order procurement contracts for repair and renovation of buildings and grounds, for projects not exceeding $3,000,000, through a single request for bids. The bill would require these contracts to be paid for with money from the county or school district’s general fund, a local construction bond, or federal or state funds and to be awarded to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder.
The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2030, a school district or county office of education that uses the task order procurement contracting method to submit to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature a report on its use of the task order procurement contracting method, as specified.
This bill would limit the scope of these contracts to those purposes authorized by its funding
source. The bill would also require the contracting educational agency to ensure that it is in compliance with existing provisions that authorize personal service contracting for services currently or customarily performed by classified school employees before entering into a contract pursuant to this bill.

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