The Newhall School District has contracted with Colbi Technologies to provide a web-based process for Pre-qualified Contractor and CUPCCAA lists through Quality Bidders. Quality Bidders is an online pre-qualification service for California school districts that allows contractors to submit applications to become a pre-qualified bidder for a district’s formally-bid projects or register to receive invitations to bid on informally-bid CUPCCAA projects. Click Here to Sign Up and get started!

Pre-Qualification

California Assembly Bill (AB) 1565 went into effect on January 1, 2014.  AB 1565 requires ALL General Contractors and M/E/P Subcontractors to be pre-qualified, if the project is valued at $1 million or more and funded whole or in part with State Facility Bond funds, per...

Public Contract Code 20111.5 enables districts to require prime contractors to be pre-qualified prior to accepting bids.

Public Contract Code 20111.6 requires the district to do so for certain projects. This applies to prime contractors and MEP sub-contractors with the following licenses:

• General Contractors (A and B), Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing subcontractors (C-4, C-7, C-10, C-16, C-20, C-34, C-36, C-38, C-42, C-43, and C-46)
• The District must receive complete applications at least ten (10) business days prior to the scheduled bid opening on any advertised project in order for the candidate to qualify for a project in excess of $1,000,000 and partially funded by the State. Pre-qualification approval will remain valid for one (1) calendar year from the date of notice of qualification except as noted in the pre-qualification documents.

CUPCCAA (Informal Bidding)

(a)Public projects of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) or less may be performed by the employees of a public agency by force account, by negotiated contract, or by purchase order. (b) Public projects of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) If all bids received are in excess of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), (c) the governing body of the public agency may, by adoption of a resolution by a four-fifths vote, award the contract, at two hundred twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($212,500) or less, to the lowest responsible bidder, if it determines the cost estimate of the public agency was reasonable.

• per Public Contract Code 22032 and Public Contract Code 22034

Prevailing Wage Information

Information on prevailing wage requirements can be found on the Department of Industrial Relations website. Click here to learn more. 

For any questions related to the web-based tool, contact Quality Bidders at qbsupport@colbitech.com.  For all others, contact Fred Palmer, Director of Facilities, Maintenance, and Operations, at (661)291-6700 or via email.