California Code of Regulations › Title 23 - Waters › Division 3 - State Water Resources Control Board and Regional Water Quality Control Boards › Chapter 18 - Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund Regulations › Article 7 - Underground Storage Tank Petroleum Contamination Orphan Site Cleanup Fund › Section 2814.31 - Bidding Requirements

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
				  Applicants must follow applicable state laws and regulations in procuring
				  consultant and contractor services and must ensure that those services are
				  obtained from qualified independent consultants and contractors.
(b) Applicants must obtain at least three
				  written, competitive, responsive proposals or bids with detailed cost estimates
				  that include unit prices and quantities for response actions contracted for on
				  or after the effective date of this article, and to be performed by licensed
				  contractors within the meaning of Business and Professions Code, division 3,
				  chapter 9, section
				  7000 et seq. Applicants must
				  obtain at least three written proposals with detailed cost estimates that
				  include unit prices and quantities for response actions contracted for on or
				  after the effective date of this article, and to be performed by professional
				  geologists within the meaning of Business and Professions Code, division 3,
				  chapter 12.5, section
				  7800 et seq. or by professional
				  engineers within the meaning of Business and Professions Code, division 3,
				  chapter 7, section
				  6700 et seq. The requisite bids or
				  proposals must conform to the workplans and corrective action plans prepared
				  pursuant to California Code of Regulations, title 23, division 3, chapter 16,
				  article 11.
(c) Local governmental
				  entities shall comply with applicable public contract requirements including
				  the requirements of Public Contract Code, division 2, part 3, section
				  20100 et seq.
(d) Applicants are not required to submit
				  proposals or bids when they initially file an application, but the Board will
				  not normally enter into a grant agreement with applicants for any work for
				  which multiple proposals or bids are required until the proposals or bids are
				  submitted to the Board. The Board may waive the three-bid or -proposal
				  requirement if the Board finds that the requirement is unnecessary,
				  unreasonable, or impossible to comply with under the circumstances pertaining
				  to a particular application.
1. New
					 section filed 11-28-2005 as an emergency; operative 11-28-2005 (Register 2005,
					 No. 48). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 3-28-2006 or
					 emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
					 day.
2. New section refiled 3-22-2006 as an emergency; operative
					 3-28-2006 (Register 2006, No. 12). A Certificate of Compliance must be
					 transmitted to OAL by 7-26-2006 or emergency language will be repealed by
					 operation of law on the following day.
3. Certificate of Compliance
					 as to 3-22-2006 order, including amendment of subsection (c), transmitted to
					 OAL 6-12-2006 and filed 7-25-2006 (Register 2006, No. 30).
4.
					 Repealer and new section filed 9-16-2009; operative 10-16-2009 (Register 2009,
					 No. 38).
Note: Authority cited: Section
						25299.77,
						Health and Safety Code. Reference: Section
						25299.50.2,
						Health and Safety Code.