Report 2016-301 Recommendation 4 Responses

Report 2016-301: Judicial Branch Procurement: The Five Superior Courts We Reviewed Mostly Adhered to Required and Recommended Practices, but Some Improvements Are Needed (Release Date: November 2016)

Recommendation #4 To: Superior Court of California, County of San Joaquin

The San Joaquin court should follow the requirements and recommended practices of the Judicial Council and the State to ensure that it obtains the best value for the goods and services it purchases through contracts. Specifically, the San Joaquin court should follow the judicial contracting manual's recommendations for procurement processes, and it should provide and consistently retain in contract files its justifications for entering into contracts that it has not competitively bid.

60-Day Agency Response

The Court agrees with this recommendation. To ensure the Court is in compliance with the Judicial Branch Contracting Manual, the Court has adopted a procurement/contracting checkoff list that was developed by the Judicial Council to assist the Court with being consistent with JBCL procurement/contracting procedures.

Furthermore, the Court is in the process of developing a more specific/detailed Local Procurement Manual that will be used to maintain consistency with JBCL procurement processes and procedures.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2016-301

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.