# California — school districts — Competitive 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

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, not quoted from the source)_
- **State:** California _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Entity type:** school districts _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Spending category:** equipment, materials, supplies and services (higher figure); public projects as defined in Pub. Cont. Code § 22002(c) (lower figure) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Formal bid threshold (as stated in statute):** more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Threshold (normalised):** $50,000 for equipment, materials, supplies and services; $15,000 for public projects _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Informal quote tier:** none stated in this section _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Indexation:** adjusted annually by the Superintendent for the change in the Implicit Price Deflator, rounded to the nearest $100 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Statutory citation:** Cal. Pub. Cont. Code § 20111 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## 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:

## Source

- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PCC&sectionNum=20111

Last verified: 2026-08-19. Review by: 2027-08-19.
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