4703741 Contracting and Procurement, Office of - Notice of Final Rulemaking - To increase the small purchase limit from $5000 to $10,000 for purposes of publishing notices of intent to award sole source contracts

OFFICE OF CONTRACTING AND PROCUREMENT

NOTICE OF FINAL RULEMAKING

 

The Chief Procurement Officer of the District of Columbia (CPO), pursuant to the authority set forth in Sections 204 and 1106 of the Procurement Practices Reform Act of 2010, effective April 8, 2011 (D.C. Law 18-371; D.C. Official Code §§ 2-352.04 and 2-361.06) (2012 Repl.)) (Act), hereby gives notice of the intent to adopt a final rulemaking to amend Section 1304.1 of Chapter 13, Publicizing Contract Actions, of Title 27, Contracts and Procurement, of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR).

 

The rulemaking is necessary to make Section 1304.1 consistent with the recent increase in the small purchase limit from $5,000 to $10,000, and with Section 1800.3 of Chapter 18, Small Purchase and Other Simplified Purchase Procedures, of Title 27 of the DCMR. 

 

The CPO gave notice of his intent to adopt these rules on September 19, 2013, and the emergency and proposed rules were published in the D.C. Register on October 11, 2013, at 60 DCR 14635.  No changes have been made to the text of the rules as published.  The CPO took final action to adopt these rules on November 14, 2013.

 

The rulemaking will become effective upon publication in the D.C. Register.

 

Chapter 13, PUBLICIZING CONTRACT ACTIONS, of Title 27, CONTRACTS AND PROCUREMENTS, of the DCMR is amended as follows:

 

Section 1304.1 is amended to read as follows:

 

1304.1             A notice of intent to award a sole source contract shall be published on the OCP Internet for at least ten (10) days prior to contract award if the estimated price is over ten-thousand dollars ($10,000).