Cincinnati |
Code of Ordinances |
Title III. FINANCIAL, PERSONNEL, PROCUREMENT AND REAL PROPERTY PROCEDURES |
Chapter 324. MINORITY AND WOMEN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PROGRAM |
§ 324-33. Price Preferences For Non-Professional Services and Supplies Prime Contracts.
The city may award a prime contract for non-professional services or supplies to an MBE or WBE that submits, in response to an invitation to bid, a bid that is no more than five percent greater than the lowest and otherwise best bid unless either of the following applies:
(a)
The award to the MBE or WBE would result in a total contract cost that is, on an annual basis, $25,000.00 or more higher than the lowest and otherwise best bid; or
(b)
The award to the MBE or WBE would cause the total contract cost to exceed the city's budgeted funding for the contract.
(Ordained by Ord. No. 308-2015, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016)