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California — school districts

For California, state and entity type is California — school districts; entity type is school districts; spending category is equipment, materials, supplies and services (higher figure); public projects as defined in Pub. Cont. Code § 22002(c) (lower figure); formal bid threshold (as stated in statute) is more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000); threshold (normalised) is $50,000 for equipment, materials, supplies and services; $15,000 for public projects, recorded from its source on 2026-08-19.

State and entity type
California — school districts our reading
State
California our reading
Entity type
school districts our reading
Spending category
equipment, materials, supplies and services (higher figure); public projects as defined in Pub. Cont. Code § 22002(c) (lower figure) our reading
Formal bid threshold (as stated in statute)
more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) verified
Threshold (normalised)
$50,000 for equipment, materials, supplies and services; $15,000 for public projects our reading
Informal quote tier
none stated in this section our reading
Indexation
adjusted annually by the Superintendent for the change in the Implicit Price Deflator, rounded to the nearest $100 our reading
Statutory citation
Cal. Pub. Cont. Code § 20111 our reading
Sourceleginfo.legislature.ca.gov
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DatasetCompetitive bid thresholds for local government by US state — the dollar amount at which a city, county or school district must formally bid, with statutory citations

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What the source says

The governing board of any school district, in accordance with any requirement established by that governing board pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 2000, shall let any contracts involving an expenditure of more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for any of the following:

leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, retrieved 2026-08-19

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