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a. Receive a status report on the County's Annual Spend for FY2019/20
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Receive a status report on the County's Annual Spend for FY2019/20, presented by the County Contracts/Purchasing Officer.
SUMMARY/ DISCUSSION:
The Contracts/Purchasing Division (CP) of the Monterey County Administrative Office, consistently interacts with approximately two-hundred sixty (260) County staff personnel who request goods and services required to carry out their department's mission. CP assists departments in managing the County's procurement process through the county's Enterprise Resource Program (Advantage). In Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-20 the County procured goods and services for an estimated 4,500 vendors at a procurement value of $462.9 million dollars; with $124.6 million procured within Monterey County and a combined total of $151.6 million within the Tri County Area. The area encompasses Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito Counties.
CP also manages the County's Surplus Program. The Surplus warehouse has been staged as a COVID PPE warehouse since March 2020 until this present day. In addition to the typical PPE items, gloves, masks, and hand sanitizer, Surplus also stock and managed the mandatory safety signage and emergency equipment needed during the Fires and Rain event. Currently, CP is preparing many Vaccine Point of Distribution (POD) Sites.
A knowledgeable and experienced Team handles the above described tasks, with a full service end-to-end experience. The outstanding service levels are provided to each internal and external customer on an individual basis, while maintaining safety, transparency and quality standards., Along with a high level of expertise in sustainability, supplier collaboration, relationship management, performance management, and analytics, CP's goal is to evolve from a tactical team focused on cost reduction to a strategic entity driving county-wide val...
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