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Doing Business with the District / Vendor Information

We appreciate your interest in doing business with the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District. Our aim is to help you in your sales effort and to promote a climate of good business with our district. 

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Notice to Contractors and Subcontractors

Any contractor or subcontractor listed on a bid proposal for a District project must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5.

LVJUSD has contracted with Colbi Technologies to provide a web-based process for submitting to their Prequalified Contractor and CUPCCAA lists called Quality Bidders.  To get started, Click Here to Sign Up...

California Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act (CUPCCAA)

Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District is subject to CUPCCAA. This means:

  • Formal bidding is not necessary on public works projects up to $75,000. They can be performed by negotiated contract or purchase order
  • Public works projects between $75,000 and $220,000 may be let to contract by informal bidding procedures specified in CUPCCAA
  • Prequalification for projects up to $220,000 is not necessary
  • The District will establish a list of contractors to be notified of potential projects and procedures for informal bidding

Contractor Prequalification and CUPCCAA

Prequalification

California Assembly Bill (AB) 1565 went into effect on January 1, 2014.  AB 1565 requires ALL General Contractors and M/E/P Subcontractors to be prequalified if the project is valued at $1 million or more and funded whole or in part with State Facility
Bond funds, per…
 
Public Contract Code 20111.5 enables districts to require prime contractors to be prequalified prior to accepting bids.
 
Public Contract Code 20111.6 requires the district to do so for certain projects. This applies to prime contractors and MEP subcontractors with the following licenses:

  • General Contractors (A and B), Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing subcontractors (C-4, C-7, C-10, C-16, C-20, C-34, C-36, C-38, C-42, C-43, and C-46)
     
  • The District must receive complete applications at least ten (10) business days prior to the scheduled bid opening on any advertised project in order for the candidate to qualify for a project in excess of $1,000,000 and partially funded by the State. Pre-qualification approval will remain valid for one (1) calendar year from the date of notice of qualification, except as noted in the pre-qualification documents.
     
  • Link to law:  Click Here
     

CUPCCAA (informal bidding)

(a)Public projects of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) or less may be performed by the employees of a public agency by force account, by negotiated contract, or by purchase order. (b) Public projects of two hundred-twenty thousand dollars ($220,000) If all bids received are in excess of two hundred-twenty thousand dollars ($220,000), (c) the governing body of the public agency may, by adoption of a resolution by a four-fifths vote, award the contract, at two hundred thirty five thousand dollars ($235,000) or less, to the lowest responsible bidder, if it determines the cost estimate of the public agency
was reasonable.

 LVJUSD has contracted with Colbi Technologies to provide a web-based process for submitting to their Prequalified Contractor and CUPCCAA lists called Quality Bidders.  To get started, Click Here to Sign Up...

  • For detailed instructions on completing your application, please navigate to the bottom of the page from this link: Contractor Instructions

  
Please contact Tracy Dreher, Director of Purchasing, with any questions at tdreher@lvjusd.org or 925-606-3240.  You may also contact qbsupport@colbitech.com with any questions about the use of the Quality Bidders web-based tool.
 
Thank you for your interest in working with LVJUSD.
 
Approved Contractors List: Click Here
CUPCCAA Contractor List: Click Here