AB 1578, as introduced, Pan. Public contracts for services: online database: expenditures.
Existing law sets forth requirements for the acquisition of goods and services by state agencies and sets forth the various responsibilities of the Department of General Services and other state agencies in overseeing and implementing state contracting procedures and policies.
This bill would require the department to post specific information on its Internet Web site pertaining to California state government contracts for services, and would require the Governor’s Budget to identify total expenditures for service contracts.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 10373 is added to the Public Contract
2Code, to read:
(a) The Department of General Services shall establish
2and maintain an online database of service contracts that is
3accessible, searchable, sortable, and downloadable. The database
4shall include all of the following:
5(1) Description of the contract and services being purchased.
6(2) Name of the department, agency, or division contracting for
7the service.
8(3) Name of the contractor and any and all subcontractors.
9(4) Effective and expiration dates of the contract.
10(5) Annual amount paid to the
contractor in past fiscal years
11and the current fiscal year under the contract, by funding source.
12(6) Annual amount proposed to be paid to the contractor in the
13fiscal years beyond the approved budget.
14(7) Total projected cost of the contract for all fiscal years, by
15funding source.
16(8) A list of private contractor employees for each contract,
17reflected as full-time equivalent positions, their hourly wage rates,
18and the number of private contractor employees and consultants
19for the current and previous fiscal years.
20(b) The information listed in subdivision (a) shall be compiled
21in an annual Service Contractor Expenditure Budget accompanying
22the Governor’s Budget, detailing total spending on total service
23contracts for California state
government.
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