Multiple Award Design-Build Contracts
San Diego Municipal Code § 22.3310
in effect§22.3310 Multiple Award Design-Build Contracts
The City may award design-build contracts to more than one design-build entity in which the design-build entities compete for public works projects on a task order basis, under the following conditions:
(a) The City issues a request for qualifications or proposals generally describing the types of public works projects anticipated to be performed under the multiple award design-build contracts, and the evaluation criteria to be used to determine which design-build entities will be awarded contracts.
(b) The City Council approves the award of the multiple award design-build contracts.
(c) Only the design-build entities awarded multiple award design-build contracts are eligible to compete for the public works projects submitted to them by the City, with the winning design-build entity determined in accordance with Section 22.3308. The winning design-build entity is awarded the public works project through the issuance of a task order.
(d) No multiple award design-build contract may guarantee a design-build entity cumulative task orders in excess of $50,000.
(e) A task order may not exceed $30,000,000 without City Council approval.
(f) The cumulative amount of task orders issued to all design-build entities awarded contracts through each request for qualifications or proposals may not exceed $100,000,000 without City Council approval.
(g) Every request for proposals for a task order that the City estimates to cost over $1,000,000 shall include mandatory minimum participation by Small Local Business Enterprises and/or Emerging Local Business Enterprises, as defined in Section 22.3603.
The City Manager may include mandatory minimum participation by Small Local Business Enterprises and/or Emerging Local Business Enterprises in requests for proposals for task orders estimated to cost $1,000,000 or less. The City Manager may also include mandatory minimum participation by Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises in any request for proposal for a task order.
(1) The City Manager shall determine the levels of mandatory minimum participation for Small Local Business Enterprises, Emerging Local Business Enterprises, and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises on a project-by-project basis, and include the mandatory minimum participation levels in the request for proposals for each task order.
(2) Notwithstanding Sections 22.3609 and 22.3610, good faith efforts by the design-build entity shall not satisfy the mandatory minimum participation levels required by Section 22.3310(h)(1).
(3) Any design-build entity awarded a task order who fails to achieve the required mandatory minimum participation levels in the request for proposals shall be ineligible to compete for further task orders under that multiple award design-build contract.
(“Multiple Award Design-Build Contracts” added 4-23-2012 by O-20149 N.S.; effective 5-23-2012. (Amended 11-20-2015 by O-20574 N.S.; effective 12-20-2015.)
Source: City of San Diego Office of the City Clerk, San Diego Municipal Code and City Charter (docs.sandiego.gov PDFs)URL: https://docs.sandiego.gov/municode/MuniCodeChapter02/Ch02Art02Division33.pdf#page=7Fetched: 10/28/2026