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Subchapter I - General Provisions
§ 2–351.01. Purposes and policies - (a) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to...
§ 2–351.02. Supplementary general principles of law applicable - Unless superseded by the particular provisions of this chapter, the...
§ 2–351.03. Obligation of good faith - Every contract or duty within this chapter imposes an obligation...
§ 2–351.04. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) “Affiliate”...
§ 2–351.05. Application; exemptions - (a) Except as provided in this section, this chapter, except...
Subchapter II - Procurement Organization
§ 2–352.01. Office of Contracting and Procurement; authority - (a)(1) There is established as an independent agency the Office...
§ 2–352.02. Criteria for Council review of multiyear contracts and contracts in excess of $1 million - (a)(1) Pursuant to § 1-204.51, before the award of a...
§ 2–352.03. Office of Contracting and Procurement - (a) The agency head of the Office of Contracting and...
§ 2–352.04. Duties of the Chief Procurement Officer - (a) The Chief Procurement Officer shall be the chief procurement...
§ 2–352.05. Privatization contracts - (a) A privatization contract shall meet the following requirements: (1)...
§ 2–352.05a. Inherently governmental functions - (a) The District shall not award a contract to provide...
§ 2–352.06. Procurement training institute - (a) The CPO shall establish and administer a procurement training...
§ 2–352.07. Ombudsman for contracting and procurement - (a) There is established within the Office of Contracting and...
Subchapter III - Contractor Standards
§ 2–353.01. Contractor standards - (a) The CPO shall establish a process to certify, on...
§ 2–353.02. Determination of contractor responsibility - (a) Prior to awarding a contract, the District shall make...
Subchapter IV - Source Selection and Contract Formation
§ 2–354.01. Source selection methods - (a)(1) Except as otherwise authorized by law, all District government...
§ 2–354.01a. Prohibited contacts during source selection - (a) Except for members of a technical advisory group, no...
§ 2–354.02. Competitive sealed bids - (a) Contracts exceeding $100,000 shall be awarded by competitive sealed...
§ 2–354.03. Competitive sealed proposals - (a) A contract may be entered into by competitive sealed...
§ 2–354.04. Sole source procurements - (a) A contract may be awarded through noncompetitive negotiations when...
§ 2–354.05. Emergency procurements - (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a contract...
§ 2–354.06. Human care procurements - (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the CPO...
§ 2–354.07. Small purchase procurements - (a) The CPO may establish a streamlined process for entering...
§ 2–354.08. Special pilot procurements - (a) The CPO may, with prior public notice and in...
§ 2–354.09. Auctions - (a)(1) The CPO may procure goods or services through reverse...
§ 2–354.10. General Services Administration schedules - (a) The CPO may procure goods or services through a...
§ 2–354.11. Cooperative purchasing - (a) The CPO may, and is encouraged to, participate in,...
§ 2–354.12. District of Columbia Supply Schedule - (a) There is established a District of Columbia Supply Schedule...
§ 2–354.13. Competition exemptions - Contracts for the following procurements shall be exempt from the...
§ 2–354.14. Cancellation of solicitations - An Invitation for Bid, a Request for Proposals, or other...
§ 2–354.15. Collusion - (a) A person who enters into a contract with the...
§ 2–354.16. Contingent fees - (a) A contractor shall not offer to pay any fee...
§ 2–354.17. Confidentiality - The CPO shall review information which has been designated as...
§ 2–354.18. Right to audit records; right to inspect - (a) The District may, at reasonable times and places, audit...
§ 2–354.19. Reasonable prices - (a) A contracting officer may request factual information reasonably available...
§ 2–354.20. Prequalification - (a) The CPO may establish a prequalification process to certify...
Subchapter V - Types of Contracts
§ 2–355.01. Cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost contract prohibited - An agency shall not enter into a cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost contract. (Apr....
§ 2–355.02. Cost-reimbursement contracts - (a) A cost-reimbursement contract shall not be awarded pursuant to...
§ 2–355.03. Use of other types of contracts - Subject to the limitations of this chapter and this subchapter,...
§ 2–355.04. Multiyear contracts - (a) Unless otherwise provided in an appropriations act, or approved...
Subchapter VI - Procurement of Construction Projects and Related Services
§ 2–356.01. Project delivery methods authorized - (a) This subchapter shall govern procurements for construction projects and...
§ 2–356.02. Source selection methods assigned to project delivery methods - (a) This section specifies the source selection methods applicable to...
§ 2–356.03. Prequalification process for construction - (a) Except for architectural and engineering services, prospective contractors for...
§ 2–356.04. Architectural and engineering services - (a) The District shall announce all requirements for architectural and...
§ 2–356.05. Estimate of construction costs - (a) An estimate of costs shall be prepared by the...
§ 2–356.06. Use of project labor agreements for construction projects - (a) The Mayor shall require, as part of a solicitation...
Subchapter VII - Bonds and Other Forms of Security
§ 2–357.01. Bid security in construction contracts - (a) Bid security shall be required for all competitive sealed...
§ 2–357.02. Contract performance and payment bonds in construction contracts - (a)(1) When a construction contract is awarded in excess of...
§ 2–357.02a. Security in non-construction service contracts - The CPO shall issue rules pursuant to § 2-361.06 to...
§ 2–357.03. Bond forms and copies - (a) The CPO shall prescribe the form of the bonds...
§ 2–357.04. Other forms of security - Pursuant to rules promulgated under this chapter, the CPO may...
§ 2–357.05. Authority to require bonds - Pursuant to rules promulgated under this chapter, the CPO may...
§ 2–357.06. Fiscal responsibility - (a) Every contract modification, change order, or contract price adjustment...
Subchapter VIII - Supply Management
§ 2–358.01. Supply management rules - The CPO shall issue rules governing: (1) The management of...
§ 2–358.02. Disposition of surplus goods - (a) The CPO may transfer District surplus goods to an...
§ 2–358.02a. Surplus property disposition agreements - (a) The CPO may enter into an agreement with a...
§ 2–358.03. Electronic inventory control system for surplus property - The CPO shall establish an electronic inventory control system to...
§ 2–358.04. District of Columbia Surplus Property Sales Revolving Fund. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Apr. 8, 2011, D.C. Law 18-371, § 804, 58...
§ 2–358.05. Surplus Property Sales Fund - (a) There is established as a special fund the Surplus...
Subchapter IX - Prohibited Actions; Remedies
§ 2–359.01. Oral agreements - (a) A District employee shall not enter into an oral...
§ 2–359.02. Improper contracts - (a) A contract entered into in violation of this chapter...
§ 2–359.03. Termination of contracts - (a) The CPO may terminate, without liability, any contract if:...
§ 2–359.04. Sovereign immunity defense not available - Unless otherwise specifically provided by law of the District, the...
§ 2–359.05. District government not liable for punitive damages - In an action in contract based upon a written contract...
§ 2–359.06. Claims by District government against contractors - (a)(1) All claims by the District government against a contractor...
§ 2–359.07. Debarment and suspension - (a)(1) After reasonable notice to a person, and reasonable opportunity...
§ 2–359.08. Claims by contractors against the District government - (a) All claims by a contractor against the District government...
§ 2–359.09. Interest - Interest on amounts found due to a contractor on claims...
§ 2–359.10. Employees subject to employee conduct standards of Merit Personnel Act - (a) Except for those District government employees employed by agencies...
Subchapter X - Contract Appeals Board
§ 2–360.01. Creation of Contract Appeals Board - (a)(1) There is established in the executive branch of the...
§ 2–360.02. Terms and qualifications of members - (a)(1) The term of office of the chairperson and other...
§ 2–360.03. Jurisdiction of Board - (a) The Board shall be the exclusive hearing tribunal for,...
§ 2–360.04. Contractor’s right of appeal to Board - (a) Except as provided in § 2-359.08, within 90 days...
§ 2–360.05. Appeal of Board decisions - (a) A contractor may appeal a Board decision to the...
§ 2–360.06. Oaths, discovery, and subpoena power - (a) A member of the Board may administer oaths to...
§ 2–360.07. Actions in court; judicial review of Board decisions - In the event of an appeal by a contractor or...
§ 2–360.08. Protest procedures - (a) This section shall apply to a protest of a...
Subchapter XI - Miscellaneous Provisions
§ 2–361.01. Green procurement - *NOTE: The amendments made to this section by D.C. Law...
§ 2–361.02. Payment of stipends authorized - (a) The contracting officer may pay a stipend to cover...
§ 2–361.03. Supply schedule, purchase card, and training funds - (a) The CPO may charge and collect a fee, in...
§ 2–361.04. Transparency in contracting - (a) The CPO shall establish and maintain on the Internet...
§ 2–361.04a. Vendor portal - (a) The Mayor shall establish and maintain on the Internet...
§ 2–361.05. Acquisition planning - (a) The CPO shall develop and implement a process by...
§ 2–361.06. Rules - (a)(1) The CPO, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5...
Subchapter XII - Repealed Provisions; Transfers and Continuation
§ 2–362.02. Transfers and continuation - All rules, orders, obligations, determinations, grants, contracts, licenses, and agreements...
§ 2–362.03. Applicability. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Apr. 8, 2011, D.C. Law 18-371, § 1203, 58...