5.33.625 Contract Preferences.

City Code Section

(Amended by Ordinances 185065 and 185898, effective February 20, 2013.)

  1. A.  Award When Offers Identical. Under ORS 279A.120, when the City receives Offers identical in price, fitness, availability and quality, and chooses to Award a Contract, the City shall Award the Contract based on the following order of precedence:
    1. 1.  The City shall Award the Contract to the Offeror among those submitting identical Offers who is offering Goods or Services, or both,  are manufactured, produced or to be performed in Oregon.
    2. 2.  If two or more Offerors submit identical Offers, and they all offer Goods or Services, or both, manufactured or produced in Oregon, the City shall Award the Contract by drawing lots among the identical Offers offering Goods or Services that are manufactured, produced or to be performed in Oregon. The City shall provide to the Offerors who submitted the identical Offers notice of the date, time and location of the  drawing of lots and an opportunity for those Offerors to be present when the lots are drawn.
    3. 3.  If the City receives identical Offers, and none of the identical Offers offer Goods or Services, or both, that are manufactured, produced or to be performed in Oregon, then the City shall Award the Contract by drawing lots among the identical Offerors. The City shall provide to the Offerors that submitted the identical Offers notice of the date, time and location of the drawing of lots and an opportunity to be present when the lots are drawn.
  2. B.  Determining if Offers are Identical. The City shall consider Offers identical in price, fitness, availability and quality as follows:
    1. 1.   Bids received in response to an Invitation to Bid issued under Section 5.33.200 or ORS 279C.335 are identical in price, fitness, availability and quality if the Bids are Responsive, and offer the Goods or Services described in the Invitation to Bid at the same price. 
    2. 2.   Proposals received in response to a Request for Proposals issued under Section 5.33.210, are identical in price, fitness, availability and quality if they are Responsive and achieve equal scores when scored in accordance with the evaluation criteria set forth in the Request for Proposals.
    3. 3.   Proposals received in response to a Special Procurement conducted pursuant to Section 5.33.220 are identical in price, fitness, availability and quality if, after completing the Contracting procedure approved by the City if the City determines, in Writing, that two or more Proposals are equally Advantageous to the City.
    4. 4.  Offers received in response to an intermediate Procurement conducted pursuant to ORS 279B.070 are identical if the Offers equally best serve the interests of the City in accordance with ORS 279B.070(4).
  3. C.   Determining if Goods or Services are Manufactured or Produced in Oregon.  In applying Subsection 5.33.625 A., the City shall determine whether a Contract is predominantly for Goods or Services are manufactured, produced or performed in Oregon.  The City may request in a Solicitation Document, following Closing, or at any other time determined appropriate by the City, any information the City may need to determine if the Goods or Services are manufactured or produced in Oregon. The City may use any reasonable criteria to determine if Goods or Services are manufactured or produced in Oregon, provided that the criteria reasonably relate to that determination, and provided that the same criteria  apply equally to each  Offeror.
  4. D.   Procedure for Drawing Lots. When this Rule calls for the drawing of lots, the City shall draw lots by a procedure that affords each Offeror subject to the drawing a substantially equal probability of selection, and that does not allow the person making the selection the opportunity to manipulate the drawing of lots to increase the probability of selecting one Offeror over another.
  5. E.   Discretionary Preference and Award.  Under ORS 279A.128, the City may provide, in a Solicitation Document for Goods or Services, a specified percentage preference of not more than ten percent for Goods fabricated or processed entirely in Oregon or Services performed entirely in Oregon.  When the City provides for a preference under this Section, and more than one Offeror qualifies for the preference, the City may give a further preference to a qualifying Offeror that resides in or is headquartered in Oregon.  The City may establish a preference percentage higher than ten percent if the Chief Procurement Officer makes a written determination that  good cause exists to establish the higher percentage and explains the City’s reasons and evidence of  good cause.   The City may not apply the preferences described in this Paragraph in a Procurement for emergency work, minor alterations, ordinary repairs or maintenance of public improvements, or construction work that is described in ORS 279C.320.