Maintenance in general includes routine, recurring and usual work for the preservation, protection and keeping of any publicly owned or publicly operated facility (plant, building, structure, ground facility, utility system or any real property) for its intended purposes in a safe and continually usable condition for which it has been designed, improved, constructed, altered or repaired.
Maintenance work may be contracted as a service order or service contract. It may incorporate contract terms typically associated with projects — or it may be contracted using capital outlay project documents and methods.
For differentiation between Maintenance and Projects, please see CSU guidelines: Contracting Methods for Maintenance Task (PDF).
Maintenance procured as a service follows regular buying procedures. Please see the Buying page of the Procurement website for more information.
Maintenance procured as a Public Works Project follows regular Public Works Project procedures.
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