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for training, including apprenticeship. The contractor will be required to
post in conspicuous places, available to employees and applicants for em-
ployment, notices setting forth this policy of non-discrimination.

In the event of the contractor's non-compliance with the non-
discrimination provisions herein, the contract may be cancelled, terminated
or suspended in whole or in part and the contractor may be declared
ineligible for further county contracts and such other sanctions may be
imposed and remedies invoked as provided for in rules and regulations
established by the chief administrative officer.

84-13. Powers and duties of chief administrative officer.

The chief administrative officer, and by delegation from him, the pur-
chasing assistant to the chief administrative officer, or such other em-
ployees of the executive branch as the chief administrative officer may
designate, shall have the powers and duties prescribed by this article, all
subject to the direction of the County Executive, to:

(a)    Purchase or contract for all goods and services required by using
agencies in accordance with purchasing procedures as prescribed by this
article and such rules and regulations as may be adopted for the internal
management of the purchasing function.

(b)    Negotiate and contract for professional services.

(c)    Evaluate bids and execute leases for all grounds, buildings, offices
or other space required by using agencies when the estimated cost exceeds
three thousand dollars.

(d)    Act to procure for the county the highest quality goods and
services at least expense to the county.

(e)    Discourage uniform bidding and endeavor to obtain as full and
open competition as possible on all purchases and sales.

(f)    Declare vendors who default on their quotations to be "irrespon-
sible bidders," and to disqualify them from receiving any county business
for a stated period of time.

(g)    Explore all possibilities of buying "in bulk."

(h) Establish and control a small purchase procedure.

(i) Establish, provide controls for, and supervise any and all neces-
sary storerooms and maintain a perpetual inventory record of all goods
stored therein.

(j) Inspect, or otherwise assure the inspection of, deliveries of goods
or the furnishing of services to determine their conformance with the speci-
fications set forth in the purchase order or contract.

(k) Require reports from the several using agencies showing all
supplies which are no longer used or needed, or which have become
obsolete, worn out or scrapped and transfer such stock to another agency
or agencies in lieu of filling requisitions for the purchase of new and
additional stocks of the same or similar articles.

(1) Sell all goods which cannot be used by any agency or which
have become unsuitable for county use, or exchange or trade in such ar-
ticles in part or full payment for commodities of a similar nature; pro-