Concerned TaxPayers of Duval County » competitive bidding governments exempt http://www.jaxtaxpayers.org The leading group in the fight against waste, fraud, corruption, inefficiency, wrongdoing, and tomfoolery at Jacksonville City Hall Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:24:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Government’s Free Pass http://www.jaxtaxpayers.org/governments-free-pass/ http://www.jaxtaxpayers.org/governments-free-pass/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:40:53 +0000 curtis http://www.jaxtaxpayers.org/?p=100 I made a discovery when perusing City Council bills recently. Ordinance 2008-1059 appropriates $184,754 for various water related environmental studies to UNF. The studies are not being competitively bidded because there is an exception in the ordinance code (126.107(f)) that exempts government entities like UNF from competitive bidding.

Section 126.107(f) of the Ordinance Code is as follows:

Unless ordered by the Mayor or Council or otherwise required by the Jacksonville Ordinance Code, the following supplies, contractual services, professional design services, professional services, capital improvements and/or sales transactions are exempt from competitive solicitation:
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(f) Supplies or services or commodities provided by governmental entity or agencies.

So even if a private organization is able to do the study at a cheaper price, it will not be allowed to compete with UNF. One would have to ask is why are government entities like UNF so afraid of competing with private companies in the awarding of city government contracts?

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