Request for Information

The Office of Administrative Law (OAL) is responsible for compiling and publishing the Official California Code of Regulations (CCR) and the California Regulatory Notice Register (Notice Register), both in hardcopy and online. The current contract for publication of the CCR and Notice Register ends on December 31, 2010, and OAL intends to issue one or more Request(s) for Proposal(s) in 2010 for the future publication of the CCR and Notice Register.

The CCR currently consists of 28 Titles published on 8½ by 11 inch paper in 40 three-ring binders. The CCR, which includes a Master Table of Contents and Master Index, contains more than 25,000 pages. The CCR is updated weekly. The CCR publisher is responsible for producing the hardcopy and online versions of the CCR, updating the CCR weekly, and publishing the Notice Register once each week. The state of California does not pay the CCR publisher for services: the publisher pays the state compensation for the exclusive right to publish the Official CCR. You may view the existing CCR contract at http://www.oal.ca.gov/res/docs/ccr_contract_2006-2010/CCR_Contract_2006-2010.pdf.  

OAL invites any interested person to provide information or suggestions that may assist us in contracting for the future publication of the CCR and Notice Register. We are seeking the broadest possible information concerning the CCR and Notice Register (both the print and online versions). We welcome suggestions or comments of relevance to the publication of the CCR or Notice Register. We invite the submission of information relating to the publication of other states’ administrative codes or other official documents, or to the development or maintenance of online searchable reference material. We also wish to compile a list of potential contractors for publishing the CCR. (Please note that all letters, emails, records of phone messages or other documents that OAL receives in response to this request will be public records subject to disclosure under the Public Records Act.)

Any interested person may respond to this request for information or ask to be added to the CCR Contract Distribution List for future communications on this topic. Responses to this request for information, or requests to be added to the CCR distribution list, should be sent no later than January 31, 2010 to the contact person listed below.

Office of Administrative Law
ATTN: Linda C. Brown
300 Capitol Mall, Suite 1250
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 323-4228
FAX: (916) 445-9515
Email: CCRcontract@oal.ca.gov