Report 2009-103 Recommendation 3 Responses
Report 2009-103: Departments of Health Care Services and Public Health: Their Actions Reveal Flaws in the State's Oversight of the California Constitution's Implied Civil Service Mandate and in the Departments' Contracting for Information Technology Services (Release Date: September 2009)
Recommendation #3 To: Public Health, Department of
To promote fairness and to obtain the best value for the State, Public Health should demonstrate its compliance with General Services' policies and procedures. Specifically, in its requests for offer, it should provide potential suppliers with the criteria and points that it will use to evaluate their offers.
Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From October 2013
As previously reported, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued Contract Bulletin 11-07 dated December 1, 2011, requiring CDPH programs to use a request for offer (RFO) template for procurement of services via Department of General Services approved Leverage Procurement Agreements, i.e. California Multiple Award Schedules and Master Service Agreements.
To ensure compliance, the CDPH Program Support Branch, Contract and Purchasing Services Section (CPSS) reviews RFOs developed by programs prior to putting the RFO out to bid. If CPSS determined a program had not appropriately used the RFO template, CPSS required the program to rewrite, or in rare occasions, rebid the required services with the correct template.
Since January 2013, CPSS issued six purchase orders using the RFO template.
- Completion Date: December 2011
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Fully Implemented
Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From September 2012
We issued Contracts and Purchasing Section (CPSS) Bulletin No. 11-07 on December 1, 2011 which provided instructions to our programs to use a request for offer template. See attached document.
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Not Fully Implemented
- Auditee did not substantiate its claim of full implementation
All Recommendations in 2009-103
Agency responses received after June 2013 are posted verbatim.