Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency: contracts

The law gives the agency more tools to procure flood-management construction and repairs, while imposing bidding, labor, cost-control, and reporting rules for job-order contracts.

What the law does ​

• Authorizes lowest-bid, best-value, design-build, progressive design-build, construction-manager-at-risk, construction-manager/general-contractor, and job-order contracting.
• Requires contracts under the new authority to go to the best-value proposer or lowest responsible bidder.
• Allows competitively bid job-order contracts for repairs, remodeling, and repetitive work, but not new construction.
• Caps a job-order contract at $5 million per initial term and each job order at $1 million, with annual inflation adjustments.
• Requires independent cost estimates before issuing each job order and permits the agency to reject unreasonable contractor estimates.
• Requires a project labor agreement before the agency may use job-order contracting, and generally requires a skilled and trained workforce for contracts over $25,000.
• Requires a report to legislative committees by January 1, 2030, if the agency uses job-order contracting.
• Ends this authority on January 1, 2035.

Who it affects ​

• Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency and its governing body.
• Construction managers, contractors, subcontractors, engineers, architects, and consultants seeking agency work.
• Construction workers performing job-order public works.

Context ​

The law is a special statute for the Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency.