Public contracts: job order contracting.

Existing law authorizes job order contracting, as provided, by the Los Angeles Unified School District, until December 1, 2012. Existing law requires the job order contracts to be competitively bid and awarded to the responsible qualified bidder with the lowest responsive bid. Existing law requires that the unified school district create a report of any job order contract procured and submit an interim report to certain committees in the Legislature and the Office of Public School Construction, as specified. Existing law requires the unified school district to provide specified notice of work for subcontractors, whose bids will be taken by the primary job order contractor. Existing law requires for contracts awarded pursuant to these provisions that the Los Angeles Unified School District pay a fee into the State Public Works Enforcement Fund, which funds are continuously appropriated for the Department of Industrial Relations' enforcement of prevailing wage requirements on public works projects. This bill would extend the operation of these provisions until December 31, 2020, and would alter the dates for reporting requirements, as specified. This bill would require the job order contracts to be awarded to the most qualified bidder, as provided, so long as that bidder is in compliance with the unified school district's project stabilization agreement. This bill would require the primary job order contractor to provide the specified notice and take bids for work available for subcontractors. This bill would further require a primary job order contractor to provide notice and justification in order to make a substitution to the subcontractor list and would authorize the district to request a hearing to evaluate the request. Because any additionally authorized projects would require payment of fees into the State Public Works Enforcement Fund, this bill would make an appropriation.